NEW DELHI (AP) – The heaviest rainfall in more than 100 years has devastated swathes of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, with thousands forced to leave their submerged homes and schools, offices and a regional airport shut for a second day Thursday. At least 269 people had been …

ATHENS, Greece (AP) – Public and private sector workers walked off the job Thursday in Greece’s second 24-hour general strike in a month against new austerity measures. The strike disrupted services across the country, with ferries tied up in port, trains and the capital’s suburban railway not running and Athens …

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) – The deep sea hunt for the missing Malaysian airliner has been refocused on the southern reaches of an expansive search zone based on new analysis released on Thursday of the Boeing 777’s final hours and how it might have plunged into the Indian Ocean with 239 …

CAINTA, Philippines (AP) – As a child from a poor family, Alexander Cruz marveled at the big houses adorned with Christmas lights near his Philippine neighborhood, but the gates were always closed. Now a successful businessman with a huge house in a hilly town south of Manila, Cruz celebrates Christmas …

TOKYO (AP) – Toyota Motor Corp. is harboring big ambitions to become a significant player in the growing market for robots that help the elderly and other people get around in everyday life. The company believes it can use its manufacturing expertise to become as crucial in a field it …

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Yahoo’s board is considering an activist shareholder’s demand to sell the Internet services the company is best known for, a maneuver that might help the company dodge a tax bill of more than $10 billion looming over its holdings in China’s Alibaba Group. The boardroom intrigue …

LE BOURGET, France (AP) – The latest news from the U.N. climate conference in Paris, which runs through Dec. 11. 1:50 p.m. The head of international climate summit says the climate talks are off to “a good start” thanks to 150 world leaders who came to Paris on Monday, but …

LONDON (AP) – The British Parliament is set to decide Wednesday whether to take more aggressive action against Islamic State extremists even as U.S. officials announced additional forces would be sent to the region as part of a global push against the radical group. The British vote would authorize the …

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) – The latest news as tens of thousands of people slip into Europe and head to wealthy European Union countries in search of a better life. All times local. 2:00 p.m. Slovakia’s prime minister, Robert Fico, says his government has filed a complaint to challenge a European …

NEW DELHI (AP) – Farmer Ajmad Miyah has given up on ever settling down again. Three years after the sea swallowed his home on the Bangladeshi coast, he still has no property or possessions, and survives by tilling other people’s fields in exchange for food. “I’ve accepted that this is …