Video shows kidnapped Egyptian security officers
CAIRO (AP) -- Seven members of Egypt's security forces kidnapped by suspected militants have appeared in a video posted on the Internet, urging the government to secure their release by meeting their captors' demands.... 5/19/2013 12:14 PM

Pope: church should open up but follow teaching
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis is calling for renewal in the Catholic church as he wrapped up two days of mass gatherings in St. Peter's Square aimed at energizing the faithful.... 5/19/2013 12:14 PM

Russian TV: American accused of spying flies out
MOSCOW (AP) -- Russian NTV television is reporting that the U.S. Embassy employee accused of spying and ordered to leave the country has flown out of Moscow.... 5/19/2013 12:09 PM

Cairo airport baggage handlers end strike
CAIRO (AP) -- Cairo airport officials say baggage handlers have resumed work after a strike that left passengers on 20 international flights from Europe and Arab countries waiting several hours for luggage.... 5/19/2013 12:05 PM

Mice return from a month in space
MOSCOW (AP) -- A Russian capsule carrying mice, lizards and other small animals returned to Earth on Sunday after spending a month in space for what scientists said was the longest experiment of its kind.... 5/19/2013 12:03 PM

Zimbabwe PM: We will end police, military abuse
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- Zimbabwe's prime minister says his party will end years of bias and abuse by the police, military and intelligence services and will make sure the services uphold the country's new constitution which demands impartiality in their duties.... 5/19/2013 12:01 PM

Israel disputes French TV claim on boy's death
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel has completed an investigation into a decade-old French TV report that claimed Israeli forces killed a Palestinian boy in a gunbattle with Palestinian militants, saying the video was misleading and unfairly blamed Israel.... 5/19/2013 11:52 AM

Death toll in collapsed Indonesia mine rises to 9
TIMIKA, Indonesia (AP) -- Rescuers recovered the bodies of four more workers from a collapsed underground room at a giant U.S.-owned gold and copper mine in Indonesia, bringing the confirmed death toll to nine, police and company officials said Sunday. Nineteen other workers were missing and feared dead.... 5/19/2013 11:37 AM

Report: Iran hangs 2 men convicted of spying
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's state radio says authorities have executed two men convicted of spying for Israel's Mossad and the American CIA intelligence agency.... 5/19/2013 10:39 AM

Chinese premier visits India to boost ties
NEW DELHI (AP) -- Just weeks after a tense border standoff, China's new premier visited India on Sunday on his first foreign trip as the neighboring giants look to speed up efforts to settle a decades-old boundary dispute and boost economic ties.... 5/19/2013 10:39 AM

Karzai seeks Indian military aid amid Pakistan row
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai will seek increased military aid from India during a three-day visit starting Monday and will discuss recent cross-border clashes with Pakistan, India's archrival, an aide said.... 5/19/2013 10:37 AM

Syrian army pushes assault on rebel-held town
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) -- Syrian troops backed by tanks and warplanes launched an assault Sunday on a strategic rebel-held town near the Lebanese border, pounding the area with airstrikes and artillery salvos that killed at least 30 people and forced residents to scramble for cover in basements and makeshift bunkers, activists said.... 5/19/2013 10:32 AM

Tunisia security blocks salafi conference
KAIROUAN, Tunisia (AP) -- Around 11,000 police officers and soldiers blocked an annual conference Sunday at Tunisia's main religious center by a radical Islamist movement that has been implicated in attacks across the country.... 5/19/2013 10:17 AM

Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival
CANNES, France (AP) -- Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival:... 5/19/2013 10:14 AM

'Britain's Obama' urges ties with West Africa
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) -- A rising star in Britain's Labour Party, described by some as the "British Barack Obama," Chuka Umunna urged the United Kingdom to more aggressively forge ties with West Africa's fast-growing economies.... 5/19/2013 9:53 AM

Coens' folk revival 'Llewyn' serenades Cannes
CANNES, France (AP) -- The Coen brothers' resurrection of the pre-Dylan folk scene in Greenwich Village serenaded Cannes with its period music and melancholy tale of a self-destructive, feline-toting musician.... 5/19/2013 9:30 AM

Devilish Dutch drama 'Borgman' debuts at Cannes
CANNES, France (AP) -- There's something nasty lurking in the woods - and inside the characters' heads - in darkly comic Cannes Film Festival entry "Borgman."... 5/19/2013 9:12 AM

Kenya police kill "terror couple"
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Police shot dead a couple suspected to be terrorists after they threw four grenades, wounding five officers in an overnight stand-off, a police official said Sunday.... 5/19/2013 8:20 AM

Factory owner barred from leaving Bangladesh
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- The High Court in Bangladesh's capital asked authorities Sunday to prevent the owner of a garment factory where 112 people died in a fire last year from leaving the country, a lawyer said.... 5/19/2013 8:17 AM

Saudi vegetable seller dies from self-immolation
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- A Saudi newspaper says a vegetable seller who set himself on fire in Riyadh after police confiscated his goods for standing in an unauthorized area has died.... 5/19/2013 7:51 AM