UK emergency committee meets after attack
LONDON (AP) -- The British government's emergency committee is set to meet Thursday after two attackers butchered a man in a brutal daylight attack in London that raised fears terrorism had returned to the capital.... 5/23/2013 4:12 AM

Father of Afghanistan cricket captain abducted
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghanistan's cricket board says gunmen have kidnapped the father of its national team captain.... 5/23/2013 4:10 AM

Brown hounded for calling Manila `gates of hell'
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Dan Brown's description of Manila as "the gates of hell" in the American novelist's latest book has not gone down well with officials in the Philippine capital.... 5/23/2013 4:04 AM

US, Israel raise hopes for Mideast peace restart
JERUSALEM (AP) -- The United States and Israel are raising hopes for a restart of the Middle East peace process after more than four years of hardly any talks.... 5/23/2013 4:00 AM

Bangladesh: Owners' many failings led to collapse
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- The defects and errors that led to the world's deadliest garment-industry accident extend from the swampy ground the doomed Rana Plaza was built on, to "extremely poor quality" construction materials, to the massive, vibrating equipment operating when the eight-story building collapsed, a committee appointed by Bangladesh's government concluded.... 5/23/2013 3:53 AM

Heat wave causes power outages, anger in India
LUCKNOW, India (AP) -- A blistering heat wave has caused massive power cuts and water shortages across much of north and western India, and some people are taking to the streets to express their anger with the government.... 5/23/2013 3:36 AM

IMF head Lagarde in court in fraud probe
PARIS (AP) -- International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde has appeared at a special Paris court to face questioning over a controversial arbitrage deal that she oversaw as French finance minister.... 5/23/2013 3:33 AM

Oil falls below $94 as China manufacturing weakens
BANGKOK (AP) -- The price of oil fell below $94 per barrel Thursday after a private survey showed manufacturing activity in China falling to its lowest level in seven months, a sign that the recovery in the world's No. 2 economy is fading.... 5/23/2013 3:33 AM

Syria opposition welcomes support for Assad ouster
BEIRUT (AP) -- A spokesman says Syria's main opposition bloc welcomes renewed calls by its foreign supporters that Syrian President Bashar Assad give up power at the start of any political transition aimed at ending the country's civil war.... 5/23/2013 3:31 AM

Car bomb kills 12 in southwest Pakistan
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) -- A car bomb targeting a police vehicle killed 11 policemen and one civilian Thursday in an area of southwest Pakistan wracked by a separatist insurgency and Islamic militancy, police said.... 5/23/2013 3:30 AM

Japan stocks dive as benchmark bond yield spikes
BANGKOK (AP) -- Japanese stocks plummeted Thursday after a spike in government bond yields and unexpectedly weak Chinese manufacturing spooked investors sitting atop months of massive gains in share prices. The Nikkei 225 in Tokyo nosedived 7.3 percent to close at 14,483.98.... 5/23/2013 3:27 AM

Restaurant torched in 4th night of Sweden riots
STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Groups of youth have burnt down a restaurant, torched more than 30 cars and injured three police in a fourth night of riots in suburbs of the Swedish capital that started following a fatal police shooting.... 5/23/2013 3:08 AM

Malaysian charged with sedition, 2 more arrested
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Malaysian authorities detained two anti-government figures and charged a student activist with sedition Thursday, raising political tensions after recent national elections triggered claims of fraud.... 5/23/2013 2:41 AM

2011 jail breaks become political issue in Egypt
CAIRO (AP) -- It was one of the most perplexing events of Egypt's revolution: orchestrated attacks on prisons around the country that broke out more than 20,000 inmates while police were tied down with the massive popular protests that swept autocrat Hosni Mubarak from power.... 5/23/2013 2:38 AM

AP NewsAlert
BANGKOK (AP) -- Asia shares slide, Nikkei down 7.3 percent, as Japan bond yields rise, China factories weaken.... 5/23/2013 2:37 AM

Japan bond yields jump following Fed comments
TOKYO (AP) -- Yields on 10-year Japanese government bonds briefly topped 1 percent for the first time in a year on Thursday, unnerving some investors at a time when Japan's already overburdened government finances are vulnerable to rises in interest rates. Japanese shares fell sharply.... 5/23/2013 2:33 AM

Submerged structure stumps Israeli archaeologists
TIBERIAS, Israel (AP) -- The massive circular structure appears to be an archaeologists dream: a recently discovered antiquity that could reveal secrets of ancient life in the Middle East and is just waiting to be excavated.... 5/23/2013 2:28 AM

Japanese climber, 80, becomes oldest atop Everest
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) -- An 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer became the oldest person to reach the top of Mount Everest on Thursday - although his record may last only a few days. An 81-year-old Nepalese man, who held the previous record, plans his own ascent next week.... 5/23/2013 1:48 AM

Lawyer: Malaysian accused of rape married the girl
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Prosecutors in Malaysia are pursuing rape charges against a 40-year-old man who allegedly had sex with a 13-year-old girl and then married her.... 5/23/2013 1:24 AM

Globovision owners hint at toned-down news stance
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- The new owners of Venezuela's only television channel to take critical stands against the government say they will, in their words, "contribute to a climate of peace and not of conflict."... 5/22/2013 11:57 PM