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Posted on May 23, 2013 at 7:31am

(AP) — A solar-powered plane has landed in Texas, completing the second leg of a trip across the United States.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 7:27am

(AP) — An American man suspected of killing four people is on the run in the Czech Republic and likely armed, officials said Thursday.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 7:25am

(AP) — Opponents and supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad traded heavy machine gun fire and mortar shells in the Lebanese port city of Tripoli, leaving five people dead in what was described as some of the heaviest fighting there in years, officials said Thursday.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 7:25am

(AP) — Japan's financial markets gyrated wildly Thursday, underscoring the vulnerability of its economy to a loss of investor confidence as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attempts shock monetary easing to end two decades of stagnation.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 7:23am

(AP) — The momentum of a late sell-off on Wall Street is carrying through for a second day, with U.S. futures and global stock markets in retreat.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 7:20am

A look at the key known facts about the Wednesday attack in south London, when two men hacked another to death near military barracks.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 7:20am

(AP) — A brave scout leader who may have prevented further violence has emerged as an unlikely hero in the apparent terror attack that left one man dead on the streets of London.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 7:19am

(AP) — Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 7:03am

(AP) — A survey shows China's manufacturing contracted this month, adding to signs a fragile recovery in the world's No. 2 economy is slowing.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 7:01am

(AP) — Attackers in Niger detonated two car bombs at dawn on Thursday, one in the city of Agadez where a military barracks was targeted and one in Arlit where a French company operates a uranium mine, injuring more than a dozen people.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 6:54am

(AP) — Beatles frontman Paul McCartney has asked a Russian judge to release members of the Pussy Riot punk group from prison.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 6:54am

(AP) — United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived on Thursday in Goma, eastern Congo, hours after a rebel group fighting government forces nearby said they would impose a cease-fire to allow the visit to proceed.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 6:42am

(AP) — Financial markets around the world were roiled Thursday after Japanese stocks suffered their biggest slide since the country was hit by a devastating tsunami more than two years ago.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 6:34am

(AP) — An 80-year-old Japanese man became the oldest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest on Thursday — although his record may last only a few days. An 81-year-old Nepalese man, who held the previous record, plans his own ascent next week.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 6:31am

(AP) — A Chechen immigrant shot to death in central Florida after an altercation with an FBI agent had several ties to one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects who authorities were questioning him about at the time.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 6:28am

(AP) — Pakistani authorities once arrested an American citizen now known to have been killed in a U.S. drone strike in the country, but he escaped after being released on bail.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 6:27am

(AP) — The parents of an American software engineer found dead in his Singapore apartment last year have left the city-state before the end of a coroner's inquest. They say they have lost faith in the process and their lawyer says they will push for a U.S. congressional investigation.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 6:26am

(AP) — The FBI has arrested a suspect in a case involving the discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin and says investigators are working "around the clock" to address any remaining risks.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 6:25am

(AP) — President Barack Obama on Thursday is expected to address some of the thornier aspects of national security policy, including drone strikes, the prison at Guantanamo Bay and the dire threats Americans continue to face — even from fellow citizens.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 6:15am

(AP) — The British government's emergency committee met Thursday after two attackers butchered a British soldier in a daylight attack in London that raised fears terrorism had returned to the capital.