Panamanian police say former dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega has been transported from prison to a hospital, possibly because of a stroke.

Sixteen bodies have been recovered and 11 people have been rescued in waters off this coastal town after an overloaded boat carrying migrants from the Dominican Republic capsized, rescue officials said Sunday.

Across Europe, residents are dealing with an extreme bouts of winter weather. Bosnia's government declared a state of emergency in its capital on Saturday after Sarajevo was paralyzed by snow, and hundreds of people remained trapped in their homes and vehicles throughout the country. In Croatia, authorities in a strip along the Adriatic coast declared emergency measures and urged the army's help in clearing up the snow, which is otherwise very rare in the area. The weeklong cold snap -- Eastern Europe's worst in decades -- has killed at least 176 people, many of them homeless people, especially in countries such as Ukraine.

Egyptian officials say Hosni Mubarak will shortly be moved to a prison hospital as soon as the facility is upgraded to house the 83-year-old former president.

Iran has no intention of blockading the Strait of Hormuz, the sea route through which about a fifth of the world's oil is shipped, a senior Iranian diplomat said, downplaying threats by others in Tehran.

Bosnia used helicopters on Sunday to evacuate the sick and deliver food to thousands of people left stranded by its heaviest snowfall ever, while Pope Benedict XVI donned an overcoat to bless the few pilgrims who braved Rome's unusually cold weather to visit St. Peter's Square.

North Korea's hard-line communist regime is using old US-made target drones to develop unmanned attack aircraft, South Korea intelligence sources said Sunday.

A Syrian state-run newspaper has welcomed the Russian and Chinese veto of a U.N. Security Council resolution aimed at stopping Damascus' crackdown on the country's uprising.

Officials say a large explosion has hit the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, causing casualties.

Officials say a mob ransacked the Syrian Embassy in Australia after reports of the bloodiest episode yet in Syria's nearly yearlong crackdown on dissent. The attack in Australia's capital, Canberra, follows at least six others at Syrian embassies in Europe and the Middle East.

Patti Esperanza, a tour company owner from Los Gatos, Calif., handled her kidnapping like a pro.

Greece's coalition parties must tell the European Union on Monday whether they accept the painful terms of a new bailout deal as EU patience wears thin with political dithering in Athens over implementing reforms.

The fatal grounding of the Costa Concordia off the Tuscan coast has sharpened the focus on the largely unchecked boom of these ever-larger luxury liners, and nowhere more so than in Venice.