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Posted on May 22, 2013 at 7:58am

(AP) — Syria's main opposition alliance on Wednesday urged fighters to come from around the country to reinforce a rebel-held town under attack by President Bashar Assad's troops and their allies from the Lebanese militant Hezbollah group.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 7:54am

(AP) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday that a decision by election overseers to disqualify his top aide from next month's presidential race is an act of "oppression" and that he will take the case to the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 7:52am

(AP) — A judge in Italy has ordered the captain of the Costa Concordia to stand trial in the shipwreck of the cruise liner, which struck a reef off Tuscany last year, killing 32 people.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 7:52am

(AP) — Target Corp. is reporting a 26 percent drop in first-quarter profits as cool temperatures and financial pressures limited customers' appetite for spending.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 7:52am

(AP) — The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency says U.S. officials are "going neighborhood to neighborhood" to make sure Oklahoma gets the help it needs.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 7:50am

(AP) — The Boy Scouts of America will convene a two-day meeting of 1,400 local leaders to consider changing its long-standing ban openly gay boys belonging to the scouting movement.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 7:43am

(AP) — U.S. stock futures are rising with the nation's central bank seemingly committed to ushering along a financial rebound and the housing market nearing an important milestone.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 7:40am

(AP) — With an ominous storm approaching, the Moore Public School District flashed a text alert to parents: "We are currently holding all students until the current storm danger is over. Students are being released to parents only at this time."

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 7:37am

(AP) — Judge in Italy orders trial for captain over shipwreck of Costa Concordia, which killed 32.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 7:36am

(AP) — Japan's parliament on Wednesday approved joining an international child custody treaty amid foreign pressure for Tokyo to address concerns that Japanese mothers can take children away from foreign fathers without recourse.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 7:33am

(AP) — The Cannes Film Festival is missing one of its biggest stars of this year's festival: Ryan Gosling.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 7:28am

(AP) — Regular train service returned to Connecticut on Wednesday, five days after a derailment injured scores of commuters and damaged tracks.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 7:27am

(AP) — A spokesman for the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Congo says that a mortar landed in a neighborhood of Goma, a major city in eastern Congo, which last year was briefly overrun by a rebel group. The explosion comes as U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Congo's distant capital for a two-day visit that is expected to take him to Goma.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 7:23am

(AP) — After months of ignoring China's warnings to give up its nuclear program, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sent a high-level confidant to Beijing on Wednesday, in a possible effort to mend strained ties with its most important ally and the latest sign that Pyongyang may be giving diplomacy a chance.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 7:22am

(AP) — A string of unrelated events is highlighting divisions among Republicans just when they'd like to show a united front and take full advantage of President Barack Obama's latest political problems.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 7:19am

(AP) — Doctors in Poland say they have performed an urgent total face transplant on a 33-year-old man whose face was torn off in an accident which also crushed his jaws.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 7:12am

(AP) — The Vatican has taken another step in trying to show greater financial transparency by publishing a first annual report from its new financial watchdog agency.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 7:06am

(AP) — France's National Assembly is taking up an education reform bill that would allow public universities to hold some courses — like science or economics classes — in English, a plan that has alarmed language purists and the political far-right alike.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 7:06am

(AP) — Six Egyptian policemen and a border guard kidnapped by suspected militants in the volatile Sinai Peninsula last week were freed by their captors Wednesday after successful mediation, the country's military spokesman said.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 7:04am

(AP) — The Cannes Film Festival is missing one of its biggest stars of this year's festival: Ryan Gosling.