VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican has taken another step in trying to show greater financial transparency by publishing a first annual report from its new financial watchdog agency.

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's leading opposition group called on Wednesday for rebels across the country to send reinforcements to the strategic border town Qusair, where heavy fighting has drawn in fighters from Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah movement. Rebels fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad said air strikes and shelling rocked the small town on the Syrian-Lebanese border that has become a fierce battleground that could determine control of critical supply lines. ...

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Artillery rounds landed in a heavily populated neighbourhood of Congo's eastern city of Goma on Wednesday, killing a child and injuring other civilians a day before a planned visit by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, a human rights group said. From early morning, government troops and M23 rebels exchanged heavy weapons fire for a third straight day outside the city, the largest in Democratic Republic of Congo's turbulent and mineral-rich east. "A shell landed in Goma's Ndosho neighbourhood around 9 a.m. ...