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AP - 37 minutes ago
Iran on Friday postponed the planned release of an American woman jailed along with two friends for more than a year, state media reported, dealing a blow to the hopes of three U.S. mothers who have pleaded for the trio's freedom.
 
  • 25 slain in Mexican city; deadliest day in 2 years
    AP - 1 hour , 34 minutes ago
    Gunmen killed 25 people in a series of drug-gang attacks in Ciudad Juarez, marking the deadliest day in more than two years for the Mexican border city. And farther east on the border, 85 inmates scaled the walls of a prison and escaped Friday.
  • 3rd drill to the rescue for Chile's trapped miners
    AP - 1 hour , 1 minute ago
    Chile is sparing no expense to rescue its 33 trapped miners, mounting three separate drilling efforts to carve escape tunnels through nearly a half-mile of solid rock and collapsed mine shafts. The latest -- an oil-well drill so big it takes 40 trucks to carry it -- began arriving Friday.
  • Japan missing more than 230K listed centenarians
    AP - 1 hour , 11 minutes ago
    More than 230,000 Japanese citizens listed in government records as at least 100 years old can't be found and may have died long ago, according to a government survey.
  • US troops brave grenade attacks in key Afghan town
    AP - 1 hour , 20 minutes ago
    Pfc. Sean Provenzano saw it whiz by out of the corner of his eye: a dark object hurled from a rooftop as he patrolled the medieval maze of alleyways in this fort-like walled village at the center of America's Afghan surge.
  • Colombian rebels kill 8 police in mortar attack
    AP - 3 hours , 27 minutes ago
    Leftist rebels firing homemade mortars killed at least eight police officers and wounded four in a pre-dawn attack Friday on a police barracks near the country's border with Ecuador, the defense minister said.
  • Muslims throng mosques to celebrate end of Ramadan
    AP - 4 hours , 38 minutes ago
    Far from the din and controversy roiling interfaith relations in the West, Muslims worldwide thronged mosques, cafes and parks Friday in a solemn and joyful end to the fasting month of Ramadan.
  • Russians mourn bombing victims; 10 others killed
    AP - 5 hours , 10 minutes ago
    Clashes between police and alleged militants left 10 more people dead Friday in Russia's volatile North Caucasus, even as stunned residents laid flowers in a square where a suicide car bombing killed 17 people and wounded more than 140 a day earlier.
  • Castro says he was misinterpreted on Cuban economy
    AP - 5 hours , 19 minutes ago
    Fidel Castro said Friday his comments about the Cuban economic model no longer working were misinterpreted by a visiting American journalist -- taking back an admission that caused a stir around the globe.
  • German shares drop on bank refunding talk
    AP - 5 hours , 27 minutes ago
    Germany's main stock market was the only major index in Europe and the U.S. to fall Friday as investors were dismayed by reports that Deutsche Bank AG is planning to raise as much as euro9 billion ($11.4 billion) to lift its stake in Deutsche Postbank AG and shore up its capital base.
  • Spanish miners in Day 9 of underground protest
    AP - 8 hours , 36 minutes ago
    Far, far away from a Chilean mine where 33 trapped men struggle to cope as they await rescue, 50 Spanish miners are also deep in the earth's bowels -- but by their own choice.
  • 100 Swiss police can't catch retiree with gun
    AP - 8 hours , 52 minutes ago
    Swiss police say they may have to change tactics in their hunt for a fugitive gunman who shot and seriously wounded one officer in the western city of Biel.
  • Nokia dumps CEO, turns to Microsoft exec
    AP - 9 hours , 7 minutes ago
    Nokia Corp. is replacing CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo with Microsoft executive Stephen Elop as the world's top maker of mobile phones aims to regain lost ground in the fiercely competitive smart phone market.
  • Priest sex abuse linked to 13 suicides in Belgium
    AP - 9 hours , 50 minutes ago
    Hundreds of sex abuse victims have come forward in Belgium with harrowing accounts of molestation by Catholic clergy that reportedly led to at least 13 suicides and affected children as young as two, a special commission said Friday.
  • Cholera stalks West Africa as rains spread disease
    AP - 10 hours , 28 minutes ago
    Patients jammed rudimentary clinics and health workers in surgical masks sprayed anti-bacterial solution on muddy paths as the government struggled to contain a cholera epidemic that has killed nearly 800 Nigerians in two months.
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