International Top Stories from Associated Press (AP)

A complaint letter sent to Caribbean airline LIAT has gone viral after Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson passed it on to his three million Twitter followers. On Friday, the British business magnate shared Arthur Hicks' complaint letter, titled "An open letter to LIAT," that had originally appeared in the BVI Beacon, a newspaper in the British Virgin Islands.

LONDON (AP) , The saga of Edward Snowden and the NSA makes one thing clear: The United States' central role in developing the Internet and hosting its most powerful players has made it the global leader in the surveillance game.

The State Department firmly resisted taking a side in Egypt's ongoing political crisis Tuesday and rejected a new report that Obama administration officials had urged Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi to hold shock elections in the Mideast nation.

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) , A police officer suspected in the brutal gang-rape of a young woman in Ukraine was detained Tuesday after protesters stormed and burned a police station in southern Ukraine in anger over the authorities' reluctance to place him in custody.

SAO PAULO (AP) , Cristiano Gulias took a deep drag from his mini-cigar and did the unthinkable , he started a political discussion in a coffee shop the morning after Brazil's national soccer team won a major championship, rather than a debate on the team's performance.

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AP) , Everywhere he went in Africa, President Barack Obama was competing with history. There was the heroic leadership of former South African President Nelson Mandela, whose deteriorating health has captured the world's attention; the legacy in Africa of Obama's predecessor, George W.

A federal judge in Washington D.C. tossed out a new securities regulation Tuesday that requires oil, gas and mining companies to disclose payments to foreign governments, The Dallas Morning News reported. The SEC's extractive resources rule was added to the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law, Reuters said.

MOSCOW (AP) , NSA leaker Edward Snowden's best chance of finding refuge outside the United States may hinge on the president of Venezuela, who was in Moscow on Tuesday meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Edward Snowden's frantic bids for asylum to escape prosecution on espionage charges could lead him back to America , specifically, South America. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro defended the accused National Security Agency leaker to Russian reporters Tuesday during a visit to Moscow to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

VATICAN CITY (AP) , Pope John Paul II has cleared the final obstacle before being made a saint, awaiting just the final approval from Pope Francis and a date for the ceremony that could come as soon as Dec. 8, a Vatican official and news reports said Tuesday.

EINDHOVEN, Netherlands (AP) , With the score tied 1-1, it's gone to a penalty shootout in a tense soccer match between teams from Israel and Australia. As the Australian goalkeeper in his red jersey braces for the shot, the Israeli striker pauses. Then he breaks into a dance instead of kicking the ball. Perhaps he can be forgiven: He's a robot, after all.

JERUSALEM (AP) , U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, engaged in breakneck shuttle diplomacy to coax Israel and the Palestinians back into peace talks, is flying to the West Bank on Sunday to have a third meeting in as many days with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

BASTIA, Corsica (AP) , Riders at the Tour de France know to expect the unexpected. But nothing could have prepared them for the mayhem that turned Saturday's first stage of the 100th Tour into a demolition derby on two wheels.

SAO PAULO (AP) , Public approval of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's government has suffered a steep drop in the weeks since massive protests broke out across this country, according to Brazil's first nationwide poll released since the unrest began. For the first time, polling shows she would be forced into a second-round runoff vote in next year's presidential election.

PILTON, England (AP) , There's a first time for everything, even if you're the Rolling Stones. The rock rabble-rousers who formed half a century ago played Britain's Glastonbury Festival on Saturday, their debut appearance at the country's most prestigious rock music event.