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BEIJING (AP) -- The U.S. and China forged the outlines of a deal Friday to end a diplomatic standoff over legal activist Chen Guangcheng that would let him travel to the U.S. with his family for a university fellowship....

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- An Ohio zoo on Friday returned five surviving exotic animals to a woman whose husband released dozens of wild creatures last fall before he committed suicide....

MILAN (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI will attend a concert at the La Scala opera house of Beethoven's Ninth symphony conducted by Daniel Barenboim....

KENT, Ohio (AP) -- Seven people wounded by Ohio National Guard gunfire at Kent State University 42 years ago Friday have renewed an appeal for answers to lingering questions, such as whether an order to fire was given....

LONDON (AP) -- Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative Party took an electoral bruising Friday, suffering widespread losses in local elections as voters punished the ruling party for biting austerity measures and a stalled economy....

CAIRO (AP) -- The chairman of Egypt's presidential election commission says the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate and Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister will context next month's runoff vote....

MIAMI (AP) -- Former media mogul Conrad Black was released from a federal prison in Miami early Friday and faced deportation after serving about three years for defrauding investors....

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) -- The "like" button on Facebook seems like a relatively clear way to express your support for something, but a federal judge says that doesn't mean clicking it is constitutionally protected speech....

ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, Maryland (AP) -- Five men accused of orchestrating the Sept. 11 attacks, including the self-proclaimed mastermind, are headed back to a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay on Saturday, more than three years after President Barack Obama put the case on hold in a failed effort to move the proceedings to a civilian court and close the prison at the U.S. base in Cuba....

BRUSSELS (AP) -- NATO's peacekeeping force will do all it can to prevent tensions in Kosovo from escalating because of this weekend's election in neighboring Serbia, the alliance's top official said Friday....

PARIS (AP) -- When he came to power in 2007, President Nicolas Sarkozy seemed just the man to shake up France's sclerotic economy with his promises of a break from the past. However, any optimism surrounding his victory five years ago has been replaced by cynicism and recrimination....

LONDON (AP) -- Sodden fields. Deep puddles. Flash floods. This is what drought looks like in Britain....

LONDON (AP) -- Sodden fields. Deep puddles. Flash floods. This is what drought looks like in Britain....

BEIJING (AP) -- China hinted at a possible, face-saving way out of a diplomatic standoff with the United States over legal activist Chen Guangcheng, saying Friday that he could apply for permission to study abroad....

The refrain sounded by his aides is accurate: Barack Obama has done more for the cause of gay rights than any president before him....

The refrain sounded by his aides is accurate: Barack Obama has done more for the cause of gay rights than any president before him....

The refrain sounded by his aides is accurate: Barack Obama has done more for the cause of gay rights than any president before him....

The refrain sounded by his aides is accurate: Barack Obama has done more for the cause of gay rights than any president before him....

The refrain sounded by his aides is accurate: Barack Obama has done more for the cause of gay rights than any president before him....

The refrain sounded by his aides is accurate: Barack Obama has done more for the cause of gay rights than any president before him....