Venezuela TV host goes off air after audio scandal
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- A prominent Venezuelan talk show host has gone off the air after allegedly being caught on tape discussing politics inside Venezuela's ruling party with a Cuban intelligence official.... 5/21/2013 4:49 PM

The pope and the devil: Is Francis an exorcist?
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis' obsession with the devil has taken on remarkable new twists, with a well-known exorcist insisting Francis helped "liberate" a Mexican man from four different demons, despite the Vatican's insistence that no such papal exorcism took place.... 5/21/2013 4:48 PM

Harry Potter book with author notes sold for $228K
LONDON (AP) -- A first edition copy of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" that contains author J.K. Rowling's notes and original illustrations has sold for 150,000 pounds ($228,000) at a London auction.... 5/21/2013 4:38 PM

Saudi executes 5 Yemenis, displays bodies
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Saudi Arabia on Tuesday executed five Yemenis convicted of crimes and displayed their bodies in public as a deterrent for future criminals, the government said.... 5/21/2013 4:34 PM

Nigeria: Islamic extremist inmates to be released
ENUGU, Nigeria (AP) -- Nigeria's military says the West African nation is prepared to release some of the prisoners it has taken in the country's fight against Islamic extremists.... 5/21/2013 4:34 PM

Gay marriage bill clears UK House of Commons
LONDON (AP) -- Britain's House of Commons has passed a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in England and Wales.... 5/21/2013 4:33 PM

Deadliest attacks in Iraq since US troop pullout
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Here is a look at the deadliest attacks in Iraq since the withdrawal of U.S. troops on Dec. 18, 2011:... 5/21/2013 4:31 PM

Brazil commission says abusers could be tried
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) -- A Truth Commission investigating human rights abuses under Brazil's military dictatorship says that those it finds guilty of torture could be brought to trial.... 5/21/2013 4:17 PM

Car bomb, other attacks kill 20 in Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP) -- A car bomb exploded as Sunni worshippers were leaving a mosque after evening prayers Tuesday in Baghdad, the deadliest in a string of attacks that killed at least 20 people nationwide in a week of the most sustained sectarian violence in the country since U.S. troops withdrew more than a year ago.... 5/21/2013 4:13 PM

Top figures barred from Iran's June ballot
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's election overseers removed potential wild-card candidates from the presidential race Tuesday, blocking a top aide of outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and a former president who revived hopes of reformers.... 5/21/2013 4:12 PM

Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival
CANNES, France (AP) -- Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival:... 5/21/2013 3:51 PM

Struggling Spain offers engineers to Brazil
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) -- Spain's development minister is urging Brazil to hire some of the engineers that her own economy doesn't have room for.... 5/21/2013 3:29 PM

Ex-Ford execs charged in Argentine torture cases
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- Three former Ford Motor Co. executives have been charged with crimes against humanity in Argentina for allegedly targeting union workers for kidnapping and torture after the country's 1976 military coup.... 5/21/2013 3:21 PM

Troops flood western Mexico to protect towns
COALCOMAN, Mexico (AP) -- Mexico's top security officials gathered Tuesday in the western state of Michoacan to launch a campaign with thousands of army troops to rescue towns besieged, sometimes for months, by the powerful Knights Templar drug cartel.... 5/21/2013 3:17 PM

Egypt troops in Sinai sweep mistakenly hit funeral
CAIRO (AP) -- Egyptian troops and police mistakenly fired on a Bedouin funeral in the Sinai Peninsula on Tuesday, security officials said, in the opening salvo of a sweep searching for security personnel kidnapped by suspected militants.... 5/21/2013 3:14 PM

Does France have right plan to revive its economy?
PARIS (AP) -- The man charged with reviving France's shrinking economy and attracting businesses to invest here is gaining a reputation for doing the opposite.... 5/21/2013 3:08 PM

Gandhi's 'blood sample' fails to sell in Britain
LONDON (AP) -- Dozens of Mohandas Gandhi's personal items have been sold at an auction, but a sample of blood purportedly from the Indian independence leader didn't draw high enough bids.... 5/21/2013 2:42 PM

Warsaw ghetto insurgent Boruch Spiegel dies at 93
WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Boruch Spiegel, one of the last remaining survivors of the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising by poorly armed Jewish insurgents against the powerful Nazi German force that occupied Poland, has died. He was 93.... 5/21/2013 2:26 PM

Syria opposition signals tough line on peace talks
BEIRUT (AP) -- Despite recent rebel setbacks in Syria's civil war, the main opposition bloc signaled a tough line Tuesday on attending possible peace talks with President Bashar Assad's regime.... 5/21/2013 2:24 PM

Algerian president leaves Paris military hospital
PARIS (AP) -- Officials say Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has left the French military hospital where he has been treated for nearly a month and transferred to another facility.... 5/21/2013 2:22 PM