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Posted on May 18, 2013 at 1:46pm

(AP) — In 1948, Suleiman Mamoudi fled by foot with his parents and other families from their village of Bir el-Sabae in Palestine. The 28-year-old and his family walked west for several hundred miles, crossing the Sinai Peninsula before settling in an area around 90 miles (145 kilometers) north of Cairo.

Posted on May 18, 2013 at 1:44pm

(AP) — Officials described a devastating scene of shattered cars and other damage where two trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in Connecticut, saying Saturday it's fortunate that no one was killed and that there weren't even more injuries.

Posted on May 18, 2013 at 1:44pm

(AP) — The night of smoke, chaos, gunfire and grenades that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, is well-documented. Eight months later, it is the decisions made back in Washington that remain murky and in perpetual dispute.

Posted on May 18, 2013 at 1:43pm

(AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad says he won't step down before elections are held in his war-ravaged country.

Posted on May 18, 2013 at 1:38pm

(AP) — Part of an airliner carrying more than 130 people caught fire as it was landing in Moscow, and passengers evacuated the plane by jumping off one of its wings and shooting down an evacuation slide.

Posted on May 18, 2013 at 1:32pm

(AP) — A militia leader accused of grave crimes during Ivory Coast's 2010-11 postelection violence was taken into custody Saturday not far from the national park where his forces had been illegally occupying in the country's volatile western region, officials said.

Posted on May 18, 2013 at 1:21pm

(AP) — The San Diego Chargers have agreed to a two-year deal with star pass rusher Dwight Freeney that could be worth $13.35 million.

Posted on May 18, 2013 at 1:21pm

(AP) — It's all about the odds.

Posted on May 18, 2013 at 1:18pm

(AP) — A string of attacks killed at least 16 people in Iraq on Saturday, while gunmen abducted eight policemen guarding a post on the country's main highway to Jordan and Syria, the latest in a wave of violence to grip the country.

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 12:45pm

(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.