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Posted on May 22, 2013 at 8:50am

(AP) — A mortar round exploded in Goma, a city in eastern Congo which has been in the crosshairs of this country's latest rebellion, officials said Wednesday, as the United Nations secretary-general arrived in Congo's capital for a two-day visit expected to take him to Goma.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 8:48am

(AP) — Zimbabwe's president signs into law a new constitution and vows to hold peaceful and clean elections later this year.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 8:41am

(AP) — Eric Garcetti has defeated Wendy Greuel (Grool) in the race to become next mayor of Los Angeles.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 8:38am

(AP) — South Sudan is warning that it may stop exporting oil through Sudan's pipelines again.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 8:35am

(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.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 8:34am

(AP) — The Czech president says he will no longer block a university professorship for a gay rights activist who had been critical of him.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 8:31am

(AP) — The Vatican took another step Wednesday to show greater financial transparency by publishing the first annual report from its financial watchdog agency and announcing new regulations to fight money laundering and terror financing.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 8:27am

(AP) — Britain is proposing to give around 600 Afghan interpreters who worked alongside its troops the right to settle in the U.K. in recognition of the risks to their personal safety.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 8:25am

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

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 8:19am

(AP) — Anthony Weiner's run for a renaissance is officially on.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 8:19am

(AP) — A 61-year-old Irishman was charged in Britain Wednesday with the Irish Republican Army bombing of the queen's ceremonial cavalry in Hyde Park in 1982, a strike at a top London tourist attraction that killed four soldiers and seven horses.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 8:17am

(AP) — When a small anti-abortion group in Iowa sought nonprofit status, the Internal Revenue Service asked its board to promise not to organize protests outside Planned Parenthood and demanded to know how its prayer meetings and protest signs were educational.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 8:15am

The price of oil was little changed above $96 a barrel Wednesday as investors waited confirmation of a rise in U.S. crude stocks and the Federal Reserve's latest views on the U.S. economy.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 8:13am

(AP) — Lowe's Cos. said Wednesday that its first-quarter net income rose nearly 3 percent, but results fell short of expectations as rainy weather hurt spring gardening sales.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 8:07am

(AP) — Olympic officials agree that more targeted, out-of-competition testing in high-profile sports is needed to catch the drug cheats who are escaping the net, IOC President Jacques Rogge said Wednesday.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 8:05am

(AP) — An Iraqi government spokesman says Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has ordered changes in senior ranks of the military in the wake of bloody attacks that have killed dozens of people in the past few days.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 8:04am

(AP) — Two officials say Britain has launched a bid to formally have the European Union declare the Lebanese party Hezbollah's military wing a terrorist organization.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 8:02am

(AP) — The problem with New York these days is there's just not enough litter.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 8:01am

(AP) — Progressive Party leader Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson has been chosen as Iceland's new prime minister.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 8:01am

(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.