Sources: Toyota to recall Prius hybrid in Japan

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Twenty-six people were killed in a mine accident in central China’s Hunan Province, state-run China Daily reported.

Two sentences inscribed above the refurbished entrance hall of Moscow’s Kurskaya metro station are causing great agitation for survivors of Russian labor camps.Yuri Fidelgoldsh, who had five ribs removed after imprisonment six decades ago, is one of the offended survivors.

Thirty militants were killed in airstrikes targeting hideouts in Pakistan’s tribal region Saturday, the Pakistan army’s spokesman said.

The Texas Department of Public Safety took the unprecedented step Thursday of telling college students not to visit Mexican border cities during spring break because they are just too dangerous.

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An extradition hearing is expected in Spain this week for one of two pilots arrested recently on charges they participated in “death flights” in which more than 1,000 prisoners were thrown out of planes during Argentina’s “dirty war” in the 1970s and 1980s, officials said.

A new game show in India will award prizes to villages that are going green.

An anti-whaling activist jumped aboard a Japanese security ship on Monday in a bid to make a citizen’s arrest of its skipper over the sinking of their boat, an animal rights group said.

A government airstrike misfired on a refugee camp in Yemen killed dozens of civilians, officials from the government and humanitarian agencies said.

The top two civilian officials at the U.N. mission in Haiti were killed in Tuesday’s earthquake, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon confirmed Saturday.

French finance minister Christine Lagarde said the euro has made the 16 European countries that use it “stronger” and reinforced the level of trade among them.

A videotape on a Russian Web site allegedly showing a State Department employee having sex with a prostitute is a “smear campaign” meant to discredit the man, a State Department spokesman said Thursday.

Sri Lanka elected President Mahinda Rajapaksa to a second term in the country’s first peacetime presidential election in more than two decades, state television said Wednesday.

A pilots’ strike forced one of India’s largest airlines to cancel most of its domestic flights Wednesday, the airline said.

Five men in El Salvador, including a police officer, were arrested Wednesday in connection with the killing last week of French filmmaker and photographer Christian Poveda, the country’s attorney general’s office said.