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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned home Friday nearly three weeks after undergoing cancer surgery in Cuba, saying he is praying for life and is confident he will survive and triumph in his re-election bid....

CAMBRIDGE, England (AP) -- She went to war with Argentina over the Falkland Islands and faced down the powerful National Union of Mineworkers. But one of the hardest things Margaret Thatcher ever did, according to newly released personal papers, was attend a West End farce with herself as the central character....

CAMBRIDGE, England (AP) -- Margaret Thatcher was so fascinated by U.S. President Ronald Reagan that she snatched and kept a page of his doodles from a G7 summit, the former British prime minister's newly released papers reveal....

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) -- Scores of Afghans were killed Wednesday in Taliban attacks and other violence including a NATO airstrike, highlighting persistent instability as foreign troops begin their drawdown more than a decade after the U.S.-led invasion....

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) -- El Salvador's government is giving $50-per-month pensions to thousands of elderly former leftist rebels who fought in the country's 1980-1992 civil war....

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) -- El Salvador's government is giving $50-per-month pensions to thousands of elderly former leftist rebels who fought in the country's 1980-1992 civil war....

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) -- El Salvador's government is giving $50-per-month pensions to thousands of elderly former leftist rebels who fought in the country's 1980-1992 civil war....

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A Mexican congressman who said all pretty women are prostitutes has been asked by his party to give up his bid to run for the Senate....

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Friday that he had left Cuba and was flying home to Venezuela nearly three weeks after undergoing cancer surgery....

SAO PAULO (AP) -- A federal judge on Friday blocked prosecutors' efforts to hold the first trial of a military man for abuses committed during the nation's dictatorship....

FORT MYERS (AP) -- Nick Blackburn said he's throwing better than ever....

DUBLIN (AP) -- The Greek businesswoman who decried an Irish airline's policy of making Greek travelers pass language tests to prove their nationality has received free flights for her family and an explicit promise it has abandoned the practice....

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- A psychiatric patient stabbed a doctor and two nurses at a Danish hospital on Friday, then surrendered after a 10-hour standoff with police....

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- North Korea plans to blast a satellite into space next month to mark the centenary of the birth of its founder, Kim Il Sung, which the U.S. quickly called a "deal-breaker" for a new agreement where the U.S. would exchange food aid for nuclear concessions....

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- North Korea plans to blast a satellite into space next month to mark the centenary of the birth of its founder, Kim Il Sung, which the U.S. quickly called a "deal-breaker" for a new agreement where the U.S. would exchange food aid for nuclear concessions....

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- North Korea plans to blast a satellite into space next month to mark the centenary of the birth of its founder, Kim Il Sung, which the U.S. quickly called a "deal-breaker" for a new agreement where the U.S. would exchange food aid for nuclear concessions....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The U.S. military bans alcohol for its troops in Afghanistan, but that doesn't stop some soldiers from having a bottle or two stowed away in their gear - a fact highlighted by investigators' probe into whether alcohol played a role when a U.S. sergeant allegedly carried out a killing spree that left 16 Afghans dead....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The U.S. military bans alcohol for its troops in Afghanistan, but that doesn't stop some soldiers from having a bottle or two stowed away in their gear - a fact highlighted by investigators' probe into whether alcohol played a role when a U.S. sergeant allegedly carried out a killing spree that left 16 Afghans dead....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The U.S. military bans alcohol for its troops in Afghanistan, but that doesn't stop some soldiers from having a bottle or two stowed away in their gear - a fact highlighted by investigators' probe into whether alcohol played a role when a U.S. sergeant allegedly carried out a killing spree that left 16 Afghans dead....

CAIRO (AP) -- Hundreds of Egyptian activists rallied in Cairo on Friday, lambasting a recent military tribunal ruling that cleared a military doctor of charges he forced a "virginity test" on female activists....