UN expert urges help for Japan's nuclear victims
TOKYO (AP) -- A United Nations expert who investigated the aftermath of Japan's 2011 nuclear power plant disaster says the government and the operator of the facility should do more to help those affected by the catastrophe.... 5/26/2013 4:24 AM

Suspected rebels kill 28, wound 24 in east India
NEW DELHI (AP) -- Officials reacted with outrage Sunday to an audacious attack by about 200 suspected Maoist rebels who set off a roadside bomb and opened fire on a convoy carrying Indian ruling Congress party leaders and members in an eastern state, killing 28 people and wounding 24 others.... 5/26/2013 4:02 AM

2 rockets hit Lebanese Hezbollah stronghold
BEIRUT (AP) -- Rockets slammed Sunday into two southern Beirut neighborhoods that are strongholds of Lebanon's Hezbollah group, wounding four people and raising fears that Syria's civil war is increasingly moving to Lebanon.... 5/26/2013 3:56 AM

Kerry meets with runners from Boston Marathon
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) -- The winner of the men's race at the Boston Marathon says he is returning his winner's medal to honor the city and those killed and injured in the terrorist bombings near the finish line of one of the world's top running events.... 5/26/2013 3:34 AM

Iran fields 'massive' number of missile launchers
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- An Iranian semi-official news agency reports the country has fielded a "massive" number of new long-range missile launchers.... 5/26/2013 3:22 AM

Oldest Everest climber returns safely from peak
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) -- A brief improvement in weather conditions has allowed the oldest person to climb Mount Everest to leave the mountain on a helicopter.... 5/26/2013 3:02 AM

Opposition parties enforce strike in Bangladesh
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- Police say opposition activists have set off homemade bombs and smashed several vehicles in Bangladesh's capital as they enforce a general strike demanding that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resign before general elections.... 5/26/2013 12:43 AM

14 killed in new anti-terror Philippine offensive
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- At least 14 Philippine marines and Abu Sayyaf militants were killed in a clash in a new U.S.-backed offensive aimed at rescuing six foreign and Filipino hostages and stopping the al-Qaida-linked gunmen from staging more kidnappings in the country's south, a military commander said Sunday.... 5/25/2013 11:56 PM

Huge crowd cheers Argentine leader's 10-year rule
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- Argentine President Cristina Fernandez rallied a huge crowd Saturday night celebrating the 10-year government that she and her late husband Nestor Kirchner began in 2003. Her voice breaking, she called it a victorious decade, "won not by a government but by the people."... 5/25/2013 9:09 PM

Bill Clinton, other celebs at Vienna AIDS charity
VIENNA (AP) -- Cross-dressers, half-naked revelers, a famed fashion designer, entertainment icons and a former U.S. president shared the spotlight in the Austrian capital for the Life Ball, a night of hedonistic revelry for a good cause - the funding of AIDS research.... 5/25/2013 7:18 PM

Bayern beats Dortmund 2-1 in final on Robben goal
LONDON (AP) -- Arjen Robben found redemption at Wembley Stadium.... 5/25/2013 7:10 PM

Niger president says attackers came from Libya
NIAMEY, Mali (AP) -- Niger's president says suicide bombers who carried out simultaneous attacks on a military installation and a French-run uranium mine came from southern Libya.... 5/25/2013 6:49 PM

Anti-Muslim actions rise in UK over slain soldier
LONDON (AP) -- Police, politicians and activists in Britain are warning of rising anti-Muslim sentiment following the slaughter of an off-duty British soldier in a London street, an apparent act of Islamic extremism that has horrified the nation.... 5/25/2013 5:43 PM

Cannes: 'The Immigrant' stirs emotional response
CANNES, France (AP) -- James Gray's sincere melodrama "The Immigrant" has divided the Cannes Film Festival not for its politics or its audaciousness, but for its sentimentality.... 5/25/2013 5:43 PM

French soldier stabbed in throat outside Paris
PARIS (AP) -- A French soldier was stabbed in the throat in a busy commercial district outside Paris on Saturday, and the government said it was trying to determine if there were any links to the brutal killing of a British soldier by suspected Islamic extremists.... 5/25/2013 5:36 PM

Polanski laments leveling of sexes as 'idiotic'
CANNES, France (AP) -- Roman Polanski says the birth control pill has had a "masculinizing" effect on women and that the leveling of the sexes is "idiotic"... 5/25/2013 4:51 PM

Pistorius investigation to be finished by August
JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- The police investigation into Oscar Pistorius' killing of his girlfriend on Valentine's Day won't be completed until August, prosecutors said Saturday, ahead of the double-amputee Olympian's first court appearance in nearly four months.... 5/25/2013 4:31 PM

Hezbollah chief commits to victory in Syria
BEIRUT (AP) -- The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group vowed to help propel President Bashar Assad to victory in Syria's bloody civil war, warning that the fall of the Damascus regime would give rise to extremists and plunge the Middle East into a "dark period."... 5/25/2013 4:11 PM

Kerry makes 1st official sub-Saharan Africa trip
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) -- Making his first official trip to sub-Saharan Africa, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday demanded that Nigeria respect human rights as it cracks down on Islamist extremists and pledged to work hard in the coming months to ease tensions between Sudan and South Sudan.... 5/25/2013 4:06 PM

Tilda Swinton brings erudite vampires to Cannes
CANNES, France (AP) -- Tilda Swinton injects her own brand of otherworldly-cool into Jim Jarmusch's latest movie "Only Lovers Left Alive," an unusual comedy that puts a spin on the age-old vampire genre.... 5/25/2013 3:53 PM