Central Mediterranean

Forty-one migrants died in a shipwreck last week in the central Mediterranean, the Ansa news agency reported on Wednesday, citing accounts from survivors who have just reached the Italian island of Lampedusa.

Pixar’s Luca director Enrico Casarosa, animation supervisor Michael Venturini, effects supervisor Jon Reisch, production designer Daniela Strijleva, and character supervisors Beth Albright and Sajan Skaria discuss how a push for stylisation (as in Japanese woodblock prints) and the artist’s touch (à la 2D animation) drove the celebrated studio...

Some 1,000 migrants were saved from leaky boats in the central Mediterranean on Friday and one person was found dead, Italy's coast guard said.

A strong earthquake struck central Italy early Wednesday, collapsing homes on top of residents as they slept. At least 11 people were reported dead in two hard-hit towns where rescue crews raced to dig out survivors from the rubble.

U.S. President Barack Obama and other NATO leaders have begun the second day of a summit meeting in Warsaw that's expected to lead to decisions about Afghanistan, the central Mediterranean and Iraq.

NATO and its allies opened their largest military exercise in more than a decade on Monday, choosing the central Mediterranean to showcase strengths that face threats from Russia's growing military presence from the Baltics to Syria.

One day in July, Ahmed Salem Abdul Salam's parents got the call they had yearned for and dreaded at the same time: 29-year-old Ahmed, who had disappeared weeks earlier near his home town of Sirte, on Libya's central coast, was alive. But he was being held by Islamic State militants, and they believed he was a spy.

The Obama administration is offering to destroy some of Syria's deadliest chemical weapons in international waters aboard a nearly 700-foot (213-meter), U.S. government-owned ship, U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

Russia on Tuesday announced its early warning system had detected the launch of two ballistic missiles from the central part of the Mediterranean Sea fired towards the Sea's eastern coastline.

Protests by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohamed Morsi turned violent across Egypt today, with witnesses reporting four dead in central Cairo and at least 12 killed in northern cities as the Muslim Brotherhood staged a "Day of Rage".

Cyprus's plan to impose capital controls threatens to test the ties that bind Europe's monetary union and could see euros on the Mediterranean island valued differently to those in the rest of the bloc.

The euro and Asian shares rose on Monday after Cyprus did a last-ditch deal with international lenders for a 10-billion-euro bailout hours before a deadline to avert a financial collapse on the Mediterranean island.

Oil prices were nearly unchanged on Friday after a big dip the day before as the financial crisis in Cyprus kept traders on the edge.

With a whiff of global recovery in the air and central bank liquidity abundant, investors in 2013 are packing their bags for China, fellow 'BRICs' Brazil and Russia, long-dormant Japan and even some Mediterranean sun.

Forty-one migrants died in a shipwreck last week in the central Mediterranean, the Ansa news agency reported on Wednesday, citing accounts from survivors who have just reached the Italian island of Lampedusa.

Pixar’s Luca director Enrico Casarosa, animation supervisor Michael Venturini, effects supervisor Jon Reisch, production designer Daniela Strijleva, and character supervisors Beth Albright and Sajan Skaria discuss how a push for stylisation (as in Japanese woodblock prints) and the artist’s touch (à la 2D animation) drove the celebrated studio...

Some 1,000 migrants were saved from leaky boats in the central Mediterranean on Friday and one person was found dead, Italy's coast guard said.

A strong earthquake struck central Italy early Wednesday, collapsing homes on top of residents as they slept. At least 11 people were reported dead in two hard-hit towns where rescue crews raced to dig out survivors from the rubble.

U.S. President Barack Obama and other NATO leaders have begun the second day of a summit meeting in Warsaw that's expected to lead to decisions about Afghanistan, the central Mediterranean and Iraq.

NATO and its allies opened their largest military exercise in more than a decade on Monday, choosing the central Mediterranean to showcase strengths that face threats from Russia's growing military presence from the Baltics to Syria.

One day in July, Ahmed Salem Abdul Salam's parents got the call they had yearned for and dreaded at the same time: 29-year-old Ahmed, who had disappeared weeks earlier near his home town of Sirte, on Libya's central coast, was alive. But he was being held by Islamic State militants, and they believed he was a spy.

The Obama administration is offering to destroy some of Syria's deadliest chemical weapons in international waters aboard a nearly 700-foot (213-meter), U.S. government-owned ship, U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

Russia on Tuesday announced its early warning system had detected the launch of two ballistic missiles from the central part of the Mediterranean Sea fired towards the Sea's eastern coastline.

Protests by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohamed Morsi turned violent across Egypt today, with witnesses reporting four dead in central Cairo and at least 12 killed in northern cities as the Muslim Brotherhood staged a "Day of Rage".

Cyprus's plan to impose capital controls threatens to test the ties that bind Europe's monetary union and could see euros on the Mediterranean island valued differently to those in the rest of the bloc.

The euro and Asian shares rose on Monday after Cyprus did a last-ditch deal with international lenders for a 10-billion-euro bailout hours before a deadline to avert a financial collapse on the Mediterranean island.

Oil prices were nearly unchanged on Friday after a big dip the day before as the financial crisis in Cyprus kept traders on the edge.

With a whiff of global recovery in the air and central bank liquidity abundant, investors in 2013 are packing their bags for China, fellow 'BRICs' Brazil and Russia, long-dormant Japan and even some Mediterranean sun.