Jewelry stolen a 2nd time during Cannes festival
PARIS (AP) -- A second jewelry theft has been reported in the French Riviera during the Cannes Film Festival, this time an expensive necklace.... 5/23/2013 11:20 AM

Russian court denies Pussy Riot's Alekhina parole
MOSCOW (AP) -- A Russian court denied parole on Thursday to a member of the Pussy Riot punk group.... 5/23/2013 11:17 AM

Massive fuel-depot fire breaks out in Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- A massive fire has broken out at a fuel depot in Rio de Janeiro.... 5/23/2013 11:16 AM

Czech police seek US man suspected of 4 murders
BRNO, Czech Republic (AP) -- An American man is suspected of killing a family of four and is on the run in the Czech Republic and likely armed, officials said Thursday.... 5/23/2013 11:16 AM

Jerry Lewis repeats his distaste for female comics
CANNES, France (AP) -- Ladies? Don't make him laugh.... 5/23/2013 11:15 AM

UN chief visits Goma, Congo
GOMA, Congo (AP) -- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed that security must go hand-in-hand with development in the troubled eastern city of Goma on Thursday, arriving just hours after a rebel group fighting government forces said they would respect a cease-fire to allow the visit to proceed.... 5/23/2013 11:11 AM

2 brown bears rescued from captivity in Kosovo
MRAMOR, Kosovo (AP) -- Two brown bears have been released into a special sanctuary after being held in a 20-square-meter cage almost their entire lives to amuse visitors at a Kosovo restaurant.... 5/23/2013 11:08 AM

Pakistan arrested American who was killed by drone
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- An American citizen killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan in 2011 was arrested by Pakistani authorities three years earlier but escaped after being released on bail, officials said Thursday.... 5/23/2013 11:06 AM

Markets roiled by Nikkei's 7.3 percent slide
LONDON (AP) -- Financial markets around the world were roiled Thursday after Japanese stocks suffered their biggest slide since the country was hit by a devastating tsunami more than two years ago.... 5/23/2013 11:04 AM

Canada businessman's corruption trial on in Cuba
HAVANA (AP) -- The trial of a Canadian businessman caught up in a corruption probe in Cuba is apparently under way nearly two years after he was detained.... 5/23/2013 11:02 AM

Writer Chinua Achebe honored in Nigeria funeral
OGIDI, Nigeria (AP) -- Writer Chinua Achebe is being remembered in Nigeria as a fearless writer who bowed to no political pressure.... 5/23/2013 10:56 AM

AP Interview: Syria conflict uproots Palestinians
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- Syria's fighting has uprooted more than half of the country's 530,000 Palestinians - descendants of refugees from a Mideast conflict half a century ago - and their situation is becoming increasingly desperate, the head of a U.N. aid agency said Thursday.... 5/23/2013 10:51 AM

UK soldier slaying suspects had been investigated
LONDON (AP) -- Two men accused of butchering a British soldier had been investigated previously by security services, a British official said Thursday, as investigators searched several locations and tried to determine whether the men were part of a wider plot to instill terror on the streets of London.... 5/23/2013 10:44 AM

Japanese man, 80, oldest to top Everest _ for now
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) -- An 80-year-old Japanese man who began the year with his fourth heart operation became the oldest conqueror of Mount Everest on Thursday, a feat he called "the world's best feeling" even with an 81-year-old Nepalese climber not far behind him.... 5/23/2013 10:27 AM

26 killed in 2 simultaneous car bombs in Niger
NIAMEY, Niger (AP) -- Suicide bombers in Niger detonated two car bombs simultaneously on Thursday, one inside a military camp in the city of Agadez and another in the remote town of Arlit at a French-operated uranium mine, killing a total of 26 people and injuring 30, according to officials in Niger and France.... 5/23/2013 10:24 AM

UN: 22 deaths worldwide from coronavirus
GENEVA (AP) -- A new coronavirus has now claimed 22 lives worldwide out of 44 lab-confirmed cases, mostly in Saudi Arabia, World Health Organization officials said Thursday.... 5/23/2013 11:24 AM

Russia wary of deeper nuclear arms cuts
MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia's top military officer on Thursday voiced skepticism about deeper nuclear arms cuts, saying they should require parallel reductions in non-nuclear precision weapons.... 5/23/2013 10:17 AM

Kerry detours for Palestinian shwarma
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- Secretary of State John Kerry says he's all in for Palestinian shwarma.... 5/23/2013 10:13 AM

EU performs abrupt U-turn on olive oil regulation
BRUSSELS (AP) -- The EU has something important to say about its proposal to regulate olive oil on restaurant tables: Uh, never mind.... 5/23/2013 10:08 AM

Dutch arrest meat works owner in horse meat probe
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- Dutch authorities on Thursday arrested the director of a meat-processing and wholesale company whose business is at the center of an investigation into undeclared mixing of horse meat with beef.... 5/23/2013 10:05 AM