Turkish authorities have arrested a mayor from Turkey’s main opposition party, over his alleged links to a U.S.-based Muslim cleric, the state-run news agency reported Tuesday.

A Chinese state-owned utility says it has bought 49% of the power distribution grid in the Gulf nation of Oman.

European space officials on Tuesday postponed the launch of a three-year mission to study planets in other solar systems less than an hour before it was due to blast off.

European indexes fell in early trading Tuesday following a rally on Wall Street spurred by strong Chinese economic data that sent the major indexes to record highs and carried into Asian markets.

A Pakistani court on Tuesday sentenced the country’s former military ruler Gen. Pervez Musharraf to death in a treason case related to the state of emergency he imposed in 2007 while in power, officials said.

Teachers, doctors, lawyers and workers at the Eiffel Tower ? people from across the French workforce walked off the job Tuesday to resist a higher retirement age, and to preserve a welfare system they fear their business-friendly president wants to dismantle.

Starting center Deandre Ayton is returning from his 25-game suspension at a good time for the Suns.

Michigan State, Kentucky, Duke and Louisville have each spent time at No. 1 in the AP Top 25 men?s college basketball poll only to lose quickly. The challenge now falls on Kansas to avoid the same fate.

The milestones are piling up, and running out, for Atlanta?s Vince Carter.

Members of the Japan soccer team that won the Women’s World Cup in 2011 will be the first to carry the torch for the Tokyo Olympics when the relay opens its Japanese leg on March 26, 2020.