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AP - World News: Pro-EU Tadic leading polls ahead of runoff vote

Fri, 18 May 2012 05:48:06 -0500

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) -- Serbs seem poised this weekend to re-elect a reformist who arrested Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, rejecting a nationalist promising closer ties with Russia - in a sign that the troubled Balkan nation is edging away from its 1990s war legacy....

AP - U.S. News: Disco Queen Donna Summer endured after era faded

Fri, 18 May 2012 05:34:12 -0500

Like the King of Pop or the Queen of Soul, Donna Summer was bestowed a title fitting of musical royalty - the Queen of Disco....

AP - U.S. News: More firefighters heading to Colorado

Fri, 18 May 2012 05:31:48 -0500

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) -- More firefighters are heading to a fire that has burned across more than 11 square miles in northern Colorado and is approaching a reservoir for the city of Greeley....

AP - U.S. News: Obama to tout $3B pledge for food security

Fri, 18 May 2012 05:14:36 -0500

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is set to announce $3 billion in private sector pledges aimed at alleviating hunger in Africa and urge the world's biggest economies to make good on their own financial promises....

AP - U.S. News: APNewsBreak: 1 arrested in Miss. highway shootings

Fri, 18 May 2012 05:11:52 -0500

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Authorities in Mississippi said early Friday they have arrested a suspect in two fatal highway shootings that happened late at night along desolate stretches....

AP - World News: Filipino Christian group protests Lady Gaga shows

Fri, 18 May 2012 04:09:35 -0500

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Scores of Christian youths in the Philippines chanted "Stop the Lady Gaga concerts" at a rally Friday calling for the pop diva's shows here to be canceled despite assurances from authorities that they won't allow nudity and lewd acts....

AP - World News: Bomb blasts at bird market in Baghdad kill 5

Fri, 18 May 2012 03:54:45 -0500

BAGHDAD (AP) -- Three bombs struck near simultaneously at a busy bird market in eastern Baghdad on Friday morning, killing five people and wounding dozens, police and health officials said....

AP - U.S. News: Evidence mixed for Zimmerman's self-defense claim

Fri, 18 May 2012 03:48:51 -0500

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- When George Zimmerman tries to convince a judge or a jury that he shot Trayvon Martin in self-defense, the evidence in the case appears to be a mixed bag....

AP - World News: China sentences fugitive smuggler Lai to life term

Fri, 18 May 2012 03:42:33 -0500

BEIJING (AP) -- The man once considered China's most-wanted fugitive was sentenced to life in prison for smuggling and bribery in a lurid corruption case that reached into the highest echelons of the Communist Party and involved a decade-long extradition fight....

AP - U.S. News: Doctor pleased with progress of man hurt in wreck

Fri, 18 May 2012 03:22:44 -0500

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- A doctor says a man found seriously injured in the brush a week after his pickup truck rolled off a Northern California freeway is making progress....

AP - U.S. News: Jury to begin deliberations in John Edwards case

Fri, 18 May 2012 03:20:01 -0500

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) -- Jurors were set to begin deliberating the fate of John Edwards on Friday, weighing nearly four weeks of testimony and evidence from the former presidential candidate's corruption trial....

AP - World News: French autistic kids mostly get psychotherapy

Fri, 18 May 2012 03:00:16 -0500

LONDON (AP) -- In most developed countries, children with autism are usually sent to school where they get special education classes. But in France, they are more often sent to a psychiatrist where they get talk therapy meant for people with psychological or emotional problems....

AP - World News: French autistic kids mostly get psychotherapy

Fri, 18 May 2012 03:00:16 -0500

AP - Politics: House showdown looms over indefinite detention

Fri, 18 May 2012 02:56:36 -0500

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A showdown looms in the House over whether to end the indefinite detention without trial of terrorist suspects, even U.S. citizens seized within the nation's borders....

AP - Politics: House showdown looms over indefinite detention

Fri, 18 May 2012 02:56:36 -0500

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A showdown looms in the House over whether to end the indefinite detention without trial of terrorist suspects, even U.S. citizens seized within the nation's borders....

AP - World News: Global leaders seek to corral Europe crisis

Fri, 18 May 2012 02:54:43 -0500

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The leaders of eight of the world's biggest economies meet this weekend outside Washington, seeking to keep Europe's debt crisis from spiraling out of control and jeopardizing fledgling recoveries in the U.S. and elsewhere....

AP - World News: Global leaders seek to corral Europe crisis

Fri, 18 May 2012 02:54:43 -0500

AP - U.S. News: Lawyer tries to put Clemens accuser on trial

Fri, 18 May 2012 02:50:11 -0500

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Chided by the judge for what he called a confusing and mostly pointless cross-examination, Roger Clemens' lawyer is finally turning after 19 hours to his central accusation: that Brian McNamee doctored physical evidence to frame the former star pitcher....

AP - U.S. News: Lawyer tries to put Clemens accuser on trial

Fri, 18 May 2012 02:50:11 -0500

AP - U.S. News: Obama puts international spotlight on Camp David

Fri, 18 May 2012 02:46:47 -0500

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Isolated and heavily guarded, the mountaintop retreat is known simply as Camp David, but its wooded grounds have been a place of triumph and failure, refuge and relief....