UNITED NATIONS — When international negotiators reached a first-of-its kind climate change agreement in Paris this month, the United Nations' normally low-key leader, Ban Ki-moon, celebrated onstage, arms raised in victory and more exuberant than many had ever seen him before.

 

WASHINGTON — Democrats are turning to an unlikely ally, George W. Bush, to respond to Republican pledges to declare war on "radical Islamic terrorism.

 

MISSION, Texas — Among several Central American immigrant children recently detained at the Texas border after they crossed the Rio Grande was a 6-year-old boy who told the AP he'd traveled alone from Honduras and a 15-year-old who said he was fleeing gang violence.

 

WASHINGTON — The Washington Post correspondent being held by the Iranian government for more than 500 days has been allowed a Christmas Day visit with his wife and mother.

 

HONOLULU — A U.S. federal judge has ruled longline fishermen in Hawaii may continue catching more bigeye tuna, or ahi, than the maximum set by international regulators. The opinion came just in time for the year-end holidays when Hawaii consumers crowd stores to buy ahi sashimi for Christmas and New Year's celebrations.