Cambodian film on Pol Pot rule wins Cannes prize
CANNES, France (AP) -- An autobiographical French-Cambodian film, "The Missing Picture," which explores the bloody history of Pol Pot's dictatorship in late 1970s Cambodia, has won the "Un Certain Regard" prize at the Cannes Film Festival.... 5/25/2013 3:52 PM

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 3:41 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.... 5/25/2013 3:36 PM

Suspected rebels kill 16, wound 25 in east India
NEW DELHI (AP) -- Suspected Maoist rebels set off a land mine and opened fire Saturday on a convoy of cars carrying local leaders and supporters of India's ruling Congress party in eastern India, killing at least 16 people and wounding 25 others, police said.... 5/25/2013 3:20 PM

Roadside bomb kills 2 Yemeni soldiers
SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Security officials say two Yemeni soldiers have been killed by a roadside bomb in a restive province where high-level intelligence officers have been assassinated in the past.... 5/25/2013 3:14 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 France's president said authorities are investigating any possible links with the recent slaying of a British soldier.... 5/25/2013 3:03 PM

Egypt top court rules against religious slogans
CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on Saturday against parts of an election law approved by the Islamist-led legislature that had lifted a long-standing ban on the use of religious slogans during campaigning.... 5/25/2013 2:56 PM

Turkish couples kiss in subway in protest
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Dozens of couples have locked lips at a subway stop in Turkey's capital, Ankara, to protest subway authorities' admonishment of a couple that kissed in public.... 5/25/2013 2:54 PM

Kerry makes 1st official 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 2:13 PM

A controversial victory lap for Lewis at Cannes
CANNES, France (AP) -- Jerry Lewis, so beloved in France, isn't quite overcome with emotion now that he's back at the Cannes Film Festival.... 5/25/2013 1:45 PM

Palme d'Or race wide open at Cannes Film Festival
CANNES, France (AP) -- After two weeks, 20 films and parade after parade down the red carpet, the Cannes Film Festival has not produced a clear-cut frontrunner for the Palme d'Or.... 5/25/2013 1:29 PM

Hezbollah chief says group is fighting in Syria
BEIRUT (AP) -- The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah warned Saturday that the fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime would give rise to extremists and plunge the Middle East into a "dark period," and vowed his Shiite militant group will not stand idly by while its chief ally in Damascus is under attack.... 5/25/2013 1:17 PM

Iraq car bomb kills 6 Iranian pilgrims, 1 Iraqi
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Two Iraqi police officers say a car bomb has exploded near a bus carrying Iranian pilgrims north of Baghdad, killing six Iranians and one Iraqi.... 5/25/2013 1:15 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

UK police question alleged soldier killer's friend
LONDON (AP) -- Counterterrorism police on Saturday questioned a friend of alleged Islamic extremist Michael Adebolajo, one of two suspects in a savage killing of a British soldier on a London street that has horrified the country.... 5/25/2013 12:59 PM

Fragments of biblical treasure are up for sale
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Parts of the Dead Sea Scrolls are up for sale - in tiny pieces.... 5/25/2013 12:39 PM

Female suicide bomber injures 18 in Russian region
MAKHACHKALA, Russia (AP) -- A female suicide bomber blew herself up in the southern Russian region of Dagestan on Saturday, injuring at least 18, including two children and five police officers, authorities said. The attacker was later identified as a widow of two Islamic radicals killed by security forces.... 5/25/2013 11:59 AM

Vintage Apple computer auctioned off for $668,000
BERLIN (AP) -- An auctioneer says one of Apple's first computers - a functioning 1976 model - has been sold for a record 516,000 euros ($668,000).... 5/25/2013 11:31 AM

Israeli expert says Syria cyberattack foiled
JERUSALEM (AP) -- An Israeli security expert says Syrian hackers tried to break into the computers of the water system of the city of Haifa.... 5/25/2013 10:54 AM

Russian police detain activists, foes at gay rally
MOSCOW (AP) -- Gay-rights campaigners and their opponents clashed at an unsanctioned rally in the Russian capital on Saturday, but a heavy police presence in Ukraine kept the two sides apart at that country's first-ever gay pride march.... 5/25/2013 10:39 AM