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Posted on May 18, 2013 at 12:57pm

(AP) — Giant leatherback turtles, some weighing half as much as a small car, drag themselves out of the ocean and up the sloping shore on the northeastern coast of Trinidad while villagers await wearing dimmed headlamps in the dark. Their black carapaces glistening, the turtles inch along the moonlit beach, using their powerful front flippers to move their bulky frames onto the sand.

Posted on May 18, 2013 at 12:57pm

(AP) — The magic and glamour of Cannes can be hard to spot on a day when rain is lashing the palm trees, roiling the gray Mediterranean and pooling in puddles along the Croisette.

Posted on May 18, 2013 at 12:57pm

(AP) — President Barack Obama has taken two Cabinet secretaries out for a round of golf — in the rain.

Posted on May 18, 2013 at 12:47pm

(AP) — Officials in Ivory Coast say the military has detained a militia leader accused of grave crimes during the country's 2010-11 postelection violence whose forces had been illegally occupying a national park.

Posted on May 18, 2013 at 12:45pm

(AP) — A union of Italian metal workers has led thousands of people in a march through the heart of Rome to press the new government for measures to spur job creation.

Posted on May 18, 2013 at 12:37pm

(AP) — A Congolese official says the body of a journalist was found on the bank of the Ngezi River near the provincial capital of Bunia in eastern Congo.

Posted on May 18, 2013 at 12:33pm

(AP) — Nigeria's military declared a 24-hour curfew Saturday on neighborhoods in a northeastern city that's the spiritual home of an Islamic extremist network as soldiers continued the government's emergency campaign in the region, with authorities saying they killed 10 suspected insurgents.

Posted on May 18, 2013 at 12:32pm

(AP) — Point guard George Hill will be a game-time decision as the Pacers try to close out the Knicks.

Posted on May 18, 2013 at 12:26pm

(AP) — A week out from the French Open, Serena Williams is one victory away from winning her fourth straight tournament.

Posted on May 18, 2013 at 12:13pm

(AP) — A look at key moments this past week in the wrongful death trial in Los Angeles between Michael Jackson's mother, Katherine Jackson, and concert giant AEG Live LLC, and what is expected at court in the week ahead:

Posted on May 18, 2013 at 12:08pm

(AP) — Despite Democratic fears, predictions of the demise of President Barack Obama's agenda appear exaggerated after a week of cascading controversies, political triage by the administration and party leaders in Congress and lack of evidence to date of wrongdoing close to the Oval Office.

Posted on May 18, 2013 at 12:03pm

(AP) — The FBI and other law enforcement agencies are executing a search warrant Saturday in the case of two letters containing the deadly poison ricin that were intercepted this week at a post office in Washington state.

Posted on May 18, 2013 at 11:49am

(AP) — It's all about the odds.

Posted on May 18, 2013 at 11:40am

(AP) — There's an irony in the Internal Revenue Service's crackdown on conservative groups.

Posted on May 18, 2013 at 11:25am

(AP) — North Korea fired three short-range guided missiles into its eastern waters on Saturday, a South Korean official said. It routinely tests such missiles, but the latest launches came during a period of tentative diplomacy aimed at easing tensions.

Posted on May 18, 2013 at 11:23am

(AP) — Conservative religious lawmakers in Afghanistan blocked legislation on Saturday aimed at strengthening provisions for women's freedoms, arguing that parts of it violate Islamic principles and encourage disobedience.

Posted on May 18, 2013 at 11:20am

(AP) — Gunmen killed an anti-terrorism policeman and his family in Baghdad on Saturday, while kidnappers abducted eight policemen guarding a post on Iraq's main highway to Jordan and Syria, the latest in a wave of violence to grip the country. Attackers also shot dead a Sunni cleric in the Shiite-majority south.

Posted on May 18, 2013 at 11:02am

(AP) — Even before the first drops flow, Uganda's oil sector is beset by bribery allegations against officials, tax-related cases abroad that cost the government millions in legal fees, and the alleged interference of a president whose firm control of the sector worries transparency campaigners.

Posted on May 18, 2013 at 10:57am

(AP) — Two commuter trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in a crash that sent about 70 people to the hospital, severely damaged the tracks and threatened to snarl travel in the congested Northeast Corridor.

Posted on May 18, 2013 at 10:39am

(AP) — Nigeria's military has declared a 24-hour curfew in several neighborhoods of a northeastern city as its campaign against Islamic extremists in the region continues.