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KUWAIT (Reuters) -- Kuwait's emir, Sheik Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah, has died, state television reported on Sunday. The announcement was made in a statement from the royal court carried by the television station in the tiny oil-rich Gulf state, a key U.S. ally. The emir was the 13th ruler of a 245-year-old dynasty which has ruled Kuwait since the Anaiza tribe, to which the al-Sabahs belonged, migra ...

(CNN) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday painted the United States and other Western nations as bullies with "a medieval view of the world" and insisted his nation has the right to conduct nuclear research. "A few Western states ... have nuclear arsenals, they have chemical weapons. They have microbiological weapons. And every year they establish tens of new nuclear power plants. Now they are criticizing the Iranian nation ... because they think that they are powerful," Ahmadi ...

(CNN) -- Ayman al-Zawahiri -- Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in the al Qaeda terrorist network -- was not killed in a CIA airstrike on a remote Pakistani village, according to a Pakistani intelligence official. U.S. sources said al-Zawahiri was the target of Friday's strike and initially reported that he may have been among the 18 people killed. The Pakistani intelligence official said it was not known whether al-Zawahiri was in the area. Pakistan's Foreign Office said Saturday it had lod ...

ROME, Italy (AP) -- Tens of thousands of women marched through Milan to keep Italy's liberal abortion law intact while gays rallied in Rome to push for legal recognition for homosexual couples as both issues heated up in the campaign for the premiership. The Vatican and ministers in Premier Silvio Berlusconi's conservative government were scathing in denouncing Saturday's rallies. "These demonstrators are really nauseating," Reforms Minister Roberto Calderoli was quoted as saying by the Itali ...

LONGWOOD, Florida (CNN) -- The father and brother of a teenager shot at school Friday while brandishing a pellet gun told authorities before an officer opened fire that Christopher Penley's gun was not real, the family's attorney said Saturday. The eighth-grader is clinically brain dead and being kept on life support to harvest his organs, attorney Mark Nation said. When Ralph Penley arrived at the school Friday to help police and school officials defuse the situation, he wasn't allowed ins ...