
Britain holding off on media regulation plans
British officials are holding off on plans for a state-backed media watchdog, the first sign that opposition from the newspaper industry is slowing ...
Celta Vigo draws 1-1 with Bilbao in Spanish league
Striker Iago Aspas scored a late equalizer for Celta Vigo to draw 1-1 at home with Athletic Bilbao in the Spanish league on Friday. After both sides ...
Bailed-out Portugal plans another $6.3B in cuts
Portugal plans to avoid the threat of needing another bailout by making another 4.8 billion euros ($6.3 billion) in cuts over the next three years, ...

Anti-militia protest attacked in Libya
Hundreds of Libyan pro-democracy advocates marched in Tripoli on Friday, denouncing militias' recent blockade of government buildings and coming under ...

SAfrica: officials suspended over wedding scandal
Five South African officials, including police and military commanders, have been suspended after a chartered plane carrying about 200 guests from ...

Sectarian killings reported in Syrian village
The bodies of the Syrian boys and young men in jeans and casual shirts were strewn along a blood-stained pavement, dying apparently where they fell.

Kazakh man linked to Boston suspect 'normal teen'
Former teachers of one of the students from Kazakhstan arrested in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings described him on Friday as an ...

App lets amputees program their own bionic hands
Double-amputee Jason Koger used to fly to visit a clinician when he wanted to adjust the grips on his bionic hands. Now, he's got an app instead.
Google lists Palestinian territories 'Palestine'
Google is de facto recognizing a state of Palestine — at least on its local home page in the Palestinian territories. Google spokesman Nathan Tyler ...
Report: SAfrica losing battle against corruption
South Africa is fighting a losing battle against corruption which sucked up nearly 1 billion rand ($111 million) in taxpayers' money last year, ...

Japan vows 'high safety' for Turkish reactor
Japan has learned from the Fukushima disaster and will offer technology with the highest safety standards while building Turkey's second nuclear ...
Nations at nuclear meeting say too many on alert
More than 100 nations concluding a round of global nuclear talks Friday expressed alarm that many nuclear weapons are kept at a high-alert level and ...

Pakistan's lead prosecutor in Bhutto case killed
Gunmen on Friday killed the lead Pakistani prosecutor in two high-profile cases — the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, and the ...

Last South Koreans leave factory in North Korea
The last seven South Koreans stationed at a jointly run factory park in North Korea pulled out Friday, silencing the complex for the first time since ...

Strong US jobs report triggers stock market rally
Stock markets rallied on Friday, with both the Dow and S&P hitting new highs, after an unexpectedly strong U.S. jobs report indicated the world's ...
PM's youth leader in jail for Mugabe slur
A lawyer for a youth leader in the Zimbabwe prime minister's party says he is in jail for referring to the nation's longtime ruler as "a limping ...
Another Puerto Rico university official resigns
The president of the University of Puerto Rico's main campus has resigned just days after the presidents of the university's 10 other campuses did the ...

Catholic bishops condemn Irish abortion bill
Ireland's Roman Catholic leaders appealed to the public Friday to lobby their lawmakers to reject a bill that would permit abortions deemed necessary ...
Authorities comb woods near bomb suspect's college
Federal, state and local authorities are searching the woods near the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth campus as part of their investigation of ...
Danes, Finns upgrade Palestinian diplomatic status
Finland and Denmark have become the latest European countries to upgrade the status of Palestinian diplomatic missions. Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki ...
Nordic countries concerned by Russian search
The Nordic countries have criticized an inspection by Russian authorities of the Nordic Council's office in the Russian city of Kaliningrad.

EU predicts eurozone recession to continue in 2013
Europe will take longer to recover from its economic crisis as it tackles a worse-than-expected recession in the eurozone and unemployment at record ...
Correction: Italy's Race Problem story
In a May 1 story about racism in Italy, datelined Rome, The Associated Press incorrectly reported that a current French minister is from the French ...
Man acquitted of Real IRA murder of 2 UK soldiers
A man suspected of involvement in the Real IRA faction's killing of two British soldiers in Northern Ireland in 2009 has been acquitted of murder ...