Euro Tour CEO apologizes for saying 'colored'
VIRGINIA WATER, England (AP) -- The head of the European golf tour apologized for using the term "colored" during a live television interview Thursday in which he was reacting to the spat between Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia.... 5/23/2013 7:52 PM

Canada disapproves new meat labeling rules
TORONTO (AP) -- Canada said Thursday that it is considering retaliatory measures against the United States in a dispute over meat-labeling rules that Ottawa and the World Trade Organization consider discriminatory.... 5/23/2013 7:09 PM

Writer Chinua Achebe honored in Nigeria funeral
OGIDI, Nigeria (AP) -- Writer Chinua Achebe shunned Nigeria's corrupt politicians and twice turned down national honors, never fearing to criticize those he felt ruined his country. On Thursday, however, the lawmakers and the country's elite came to praise him.... 5/23/2013 6:50 PM

Muslim hard-liners ID suspect in London attack
LONDON (AP) -- A man seen with bloody hands wielding a butcher knife after the killing of a British soldier on the streets of London was described as a convert to Islam who took part in demonstrations with a banned radical group, two Muslim hard-liners said Thursday.... 5/23/2013 5:55 PM

WHO: Scientific red tape mars efforts vs. virus
GENEVA (AP) -- International efforts to combat a new pneumonia-like virus that has now killed 22 people are being slowed by unclear rules and competition for the potentially profitable rights to disease samples, the head of the World Health Organization warned Thursday.... 5/23/2013 5:44 PM

ECB's Draghi: 'Imperative' to set up new bank body
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said it was "imperative" that Europe's leaders create a new agency with powers to restructure busted banks in order to help the region leave its economic and financial crisis behind it once and for all.... 5/23/2013 5:38 PM

Brazil police arrest 9 for abusing Indian girls
SAO PAULO (AP) -- Brazil's Federal Police say nine people have been arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing Indians girls in the northern state of Amazonas.... 5/23/2013 4:57 PM

Military calls UK attack victim a model soldier
LONDON (AP) -- The soldier brutally murdered in a suspected terrorist attack in London was a popular 25-year-old ceremonial military drummer and machine gunner, a father and a passionate fan of the Manchester United soccer team, the British military said Thursday.... 5/23/2013 4:42 PM

Embattled Toronto mayor fires chief of staff
TORONTO (AP) -- Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, caught up in a scandal over a video purportedly showing him smoking crack cocaine, fired his chief of staff on Thursday.... 5/23/2013 4:32 PM

Jerry Lewis repeats his distaste for female comics
CANNES, France (AP) -- Ladies? Don't make him laugh.... 5/23/2013 4:03 PM

IMF chief Lagarde in court in fraud probe
PARIS (AP) -- International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde faced hours of questioning at a special Paris court Thursday over her role in the 400 million euro ($520 million) pay-off to a controversial businessman when she was France's finance minister.... 5/23/2013 3:46 PM

Israel to discuss military draft reform proposal
JERUSALEM (AP) -- An official Israeli committee on Thursday handed the government its proposal for ending a contentious system that grants Jewish ultra-Orthodox seminary students automatic exemptions from military service, setting the stage for what could become the first major conflict in the new Israeli coalition government.... 5/23/2013 3:38 PM

Sweden's riots raise questions about inequality
HUSBY, Sweden (AP) -- Sweden has long been a bastion of generous social welfare and an egalitarian political culture. So many people were shocked when scores of youths hurled rocks at police and set cars ablaze during rioting in several largely immigrant areas near Stockholm this week.... 5/23/2013 3:32 PM

Appellate court: Berlusconi ran illegal scheme
MILAN (AP) -- Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi on Thursday called "surreal" the judicial reasoning behind an appellate court's decision to uphold his guilty verdict and four-year jail term in a tax fraud case.... 5/23/2013 3:32 PM

Canada terror suspect: Lawyer must use 'holy book'
TORONTO (AP) -- A man accused of plotting to derail a train in Canada with support from al-Qaida asked Thursday to be represented by a defense attorney willing to use the "holy book" as a reference in his case.... 5/23/2013 3:26 PM

Clashes in Lebanon feed fear of Syria spillover
BEIRUT (AP) -- Lebanese supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar Assad fired heavy machine guns and lobbed mortar shells at each other Thursday in some of the worst fighting in the port city of Tripoli in years.... 5/23/2013 3:15 PM

Turks and Caicos recovers cash, land amid probe
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Officials in the Turks and Caicos Islands have recovered $19.5 million and more than 2,500 acres (1,000 hectares) of real estate as they continue to seize assets improperly obtained by corrupt politicians.... 5/23/2013 3:15 PM

Greeks to see no tax relief until budget improves
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece's conservative-led government can't lower taxes before the public deficit falls further, the prime minister said Thursday, but he pledged to eventually slash the corporate tax rate to a flat 15 percent.... 5/23/2013 3:03 PM

Stricken Japan nuke plant struggles to keep staff
TOKYO (AP) -- Keeping the meltdown-stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in northeastern Japan in stable condition requires a cast of thousands. Increasingly the plant's operator is struggling to find enough workers, a trend that many expect to worsen and hamper progress in the decades-long effort to safely decommission it.... 5/23/2013 2:28 PM

Cannes crime: 2nd jewel theft during film festival
PARIS (AP) -- Thieves outsmarted 80 security guards in an exclusive French Riviera hotel and made off with a necklace that creators say is worth a staggering 2 million euros ($2.6 million) - in the second such jewelry heist during this year's Cannes Film Festival.... 5/23/2013 1:59 PM