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LISBON, Portugal – Portuguese authorities say a 6-year-old girl has died after a yacht sank in the mid-Atlantic at night and she spent about seven hours in the water amid 10-meter (33-feet) waves. The Portuguese Navy said in a statement Thursday that a French yacht carrying what was believed to …

KHAR, Pakistan – A government official says a roadside bomb has targeted an anti-Taliban tribal elder, killing him and his five aides in northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border. Local government official Fayyaz Khan said the attack Monday in Mamound saw a remote-controlled bomb explode as the elder’s car passed …

MADRID – Spain’s foreign minister says the security chief for the country’s embassy in Brazil, under investigation in a homicide case, could lose his diplomatic immunity if the probe determines that the case is domestic violence. Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo on Wednesday declined to provide details about the investigation of Jesus …