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Posted on May 24, 2013 at 12:00pm

(AP) — Britain is bracing for clashes with right-wing activists and possible copycat terror attacks by Islamic extremists after the savage slaying of a young soldier, whose grieving family spoke Friday of their loss.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 11:59am

(AP) — A truck hauling a too-tall load of drilling equipment hit an overhead bridge girder on the major interstate between Seattle and Canada, sending a section of the span and two vehicles into the Skagit River. All three occupants suffered only minor injuries.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 11:58am

(AP) — Cycling's first major race since the end of the Lance Armstrong case was rattled by another high-profile positive doping test Friday.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 11:57am

(AP) — Eighteen people were taken to the hospital Friday, at least two in serious condition, after they were hurt in a crash between a hotel shuttle bus and a tractor-trailer near Atlanta's airport, officials said.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 11:56am

(AP) — An American man killed his uncle, aunt and cousins in the Czech Republic and then flew to the United States, where he was arrested at an airport, authorities said Friday.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 11:50am

(AP) — A top North Korean envoy delivered a letter from leader Kim Jong Un to Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday and told him Pyongyang would take steps to rejoin stalled nuclear disarmament talks, in an apparent victory for Beijing's efforts to coax its unruly ally into lowering tensions.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 11:48am

(AP) — Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is in Switzerland to seal a free trade pact with the Alpine nation — the first comprehensive agreement his country has reached with a major western economy.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 11:45am

(AP) — Defending series champion Brad Keselowski believes he's still the fastest in Sprint Cup, even if his results four months into the season don't bear that out.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 11:45am

(AP) — Nigeria's military says it has rescued women and children taken hostage by Islamic extremists after an attack on a police barracks.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 11:44am

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

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 11:35am

(AP) — A spokesman for an international aid organization says that four of its staff were injured in an attack on a guest house it uses in the Afghan capital.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 11:30am

(AP) — A person with knowledge of the situation says FIFA's new anti-racism task force will ask soccer's governing body next week to approve a mandatory five-match minimum ban for any player found guilty of racist abuse.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 11:28am

(AP) — Patients at Kenya's only psychiatric hospital are often confined and immobilized using drugs that put them in a comatose-like state, factors that may have led to the recent escape of 40 male patients, an advocacy group said Friday.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 11:21am

(AP) — United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday urged African leaders to implement a peace plan that the U.N. hopes will stabilize eastern Congo, a region long plagued by violence and which now is back on edge.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 11:20am

(AP) — The Catholic archdiocese in Madrid says it needs more exorcists to help some of its faithful cope with the devil.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 11:20am

(AP) — Fire official: 18 injured in crash between shuttle bus, tractor-trailer near Atlanta airport.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 11:15am

(AP) — Choosing future Navy and Marine leaders as his audience, President Barack Obama issued a pointed call Friday for an end to sexual assaults in the military, appealing to graduating midshipmen to display honor and moral courage to contain what has become a growing epidemic.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 11:14am

(AP) — A truck hauling an oversized load struck an overhead bridge girder on the major interstate between Seattle and Canada, sending a section of the span and two vehicles into the Skagit River below. All three occupants suffered only minor injuries.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 11:14am

(AP) — Academy award-winner Marion Cotillard gave her all and even learned another language to play a Polish woman struggling with the realities of 1920s New York in James Gray's terse offering, "The Immigrant."

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 11:12am

(AP) — A look at legislation passed in Turkey's parliament early Friday that would ban all alcohol advertising and tighten restrictions on the sale of such beverages, and how such a law could affect tourists and liquor companies in the mainly Muslim but secular country.