Female suicide bomber injures 11 in Russian region
MAKHACHKALA, Russia (AP) -- Police in the southern Russian region of Dagestan say a female suicide bomber has injured at least 11 police officers and civilians.... 5/25/2013 5:38 AM

Jordan king says extremism 'grown fat' on conflict
SOUTHERN SHUNEH, Jordan (AP) -- Jordan's King Abdullah II says extremism has "grown fat" off of the longstanding conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.... 5/25/2013 5:35 AM

MAKHACHKALA, Russia (AP) -- Russian police: Female suicide bomber injures at least 11 in Caucasus region of Dagestan.... 5/25/2013 5:35 AM

Syria regime unleashes artillery barrage on Qusair
BEIRUT (AP) -- Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad unleashed on Saturday their heaviest artillery and rocket barrage in a week-long battle to dislodge rebels from a strategic western town, activists said.... 5/25/2013 5:33 AM

2-child limit for Muslims in parts of Myanmar
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Authorities in Myanmar's western Rakhine state have introduced a two-child limit for Muslim Rohingya families in an effort to ease tensions with the Rohingya's Buddhist neighbors after a spate of deadly sectarian violence, an official said Saturday.... 5/25/2013 5:23 AM

Kerry makes sub-Saharan Africa visit
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 5:15 AM

Radiation leak at Japan lab; small impact expected
TOKYO (AP) -- A nuclear research lab in northern Japan has reported a radiation leak that may have affected 55 people, though none were hospitalized and no impact was expected outside the facility.... 5/25/2013 5:08 AM

Balloons bring smiles in war-weary Afghan capital
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Artists and activists have handed out 10,000 pink balloons to residents in Afghanistan's war-weary capital, bringing smiles to surprised Kabul residents a day after a major Taliban siege on an international compound in the city.... 5/25/2013 5:03 AM

Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival
CANNES, France (AP) -- Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.... 5/25/2013 4:26 AM

Mosque blast kills 12 in eastern Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Authorities in eastern Afghanistan say explosives transported by suspected Taliban fighters accidentally detonated while they were stopped at a mosque, killing 12 people.... 5/25/2013 4:21 AM

16 children, 1 teacher dead in Pakistan bus fire
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) -- Police say that a teacher was among the 17 burned to death in eastern Pakistan when a minibus taking children to school suddenly caught fire.... 5/25/2013 4:00 AM

Chile's Indians take on world's largest gold miner
EL CORRAL, Chile (AP) -- The Diaguita Indians live in the foothills of the Andes, just downstream from the world's highest gold mine, where for as long as anyone can remember they've drunk straight from the glacier-fed river that irrigates their orchards and vineyards with its clear water.... 5/25/2013 3:45 AM

7 Filipino marines, 4 militants killed in clash
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- At least seven Filipino marines and four Abu Sayyaf militants were killed in a clash Saturday as the military launched an offensive against al-Qaida-linked gunmen who have been blamed for recent kidnappings and of trying to sabotage a road project in the southern Philippines.... 5/25/2013 2:32 AM

Toronto mayor denies he smokes crack cocaine
TORONTO (AP) -- Toronto Mayor Rob Ford denied that he smokes crack cocaine and said he is not an addict, breaking a week of silence over reports of a video purportedly showing him using the drug. Critics were not appeased, with one city councilor questioning whether the mayor told "the whole truth" and another calling on him to resign.... 5/25/2013 1:06 AM

NKorean envoy delivers letter to China's president
BEIJING (AP) -- A top North Korean envoy has delivered a letter from leader Kim Jong Un to Chinese President Xi Jinping and told him Pyongyang would take steps to rejoin stalled nuclear disarmament talks, in an apparent victory for Beijing's efforts to coax its unruly ally into lowering tensions.... 5/24/2013 10:15 PM

Ex-Guatemala president extradited to US
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- Former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo was extradited on Friday to the United States to face charges of laundering $70 million in Guatemalan funds through U.S. bank accounts.... 5/24/2013 9:49 PM

Soldier's slaying prompts UK security review
LONDON (AP) -- Both of the suspects accused of butchering a British soldier during broad daylight on a London street had long been on the radar of Britain's domestic spy agency, though investigators say it would have been nearly impossible to predict that the men were on the verge of a brutal killing.... 5/24/2013 8:59 PM

Honduran gangs to announce truce to cut violence
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) -- Honduras' two largest and most-violent gangs will sign a truce next week and ask for a dialogue with the government and police to help them start leaving their gang lifestyle, a Roman Catholic bishop said Friday.... 5/24/2013 8:19 PM

Steely Cotillard shines in 'The Immigrant'
CANNES, France (AP) -- Academy award-winner Marion Cotillard gave her all and even learned another language to play a Polish woman struggling with the realities of 1920s New York in James Gray's terse offering, "The Immigrant."... 5/24/2013 7:17 PM

Mexico: far fewer people disappeared than feared
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexico's top security official said Friday that far fewer people disappeared during Mexico's drug war than were feared when the government released a list of about 26,000 cases.... 5/24/2013 7:08 PM