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Posted on May 24, 2013 at 9:26am

(AP) — Britain's Ministry of Defense says a Typhoon jet has been launched to investigate an incident involving a civilian aircraft.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 9:25am

(AP) — U.S. orders for long-lasting manufactured goods rebounded in April, buoyed by more demand for aircraft and stronger business investment. The gains suggest economic growth may be holding steady this spring.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 9:18am

(AP) — Slovenia's parliament has adopted a cap on public spending to try to convince investors that it will be able to avoid needing an international bailout.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 9:18am

(AP) — As jurors in Jodi Arias' murder trial filed one by one from the courtroom after a dramatic five months of gut-wrenching testimony and gruesome photographs, three women on the panel cried and one looked to the victim's family, mouthing the word, "Sorry."

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 9:16am

(AP) — Uganda's president fired his top military commander Friday, the ouster apparently linked to turmoil over President Yoweri Museveni's alleged plan to have his son succeed him as head of state.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 9:16am

(AP) — UK defense ministry: Typhoon jet launched to investigate incident with civilian plane.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 9:14am

(AP) — When President Barack Obama pushed his health care overhaul plan through Congress, he counted labor unions among his strongest supporters.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 9:05am

(AP) — New Jersey rolled out some of its big guns Friday to proclaim that the shore is back following Superstorm Sandy, using Gov. Chris Christie and the cast of MTV's "Jersey Shore" to tell a national audience the state is ready for summer fun.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 9:01am

(AP) — The slaying of a British soldier in southeast London cast a spotlight on radical preachers that influenced Michael Adebolajo, the attacker seen in videos with bloody hands holding a butcher knife. It also raised questions about the reach of the terrorist group al-Shabab, after a British government official said one of the two men tried to go to Somalia to train or fight with the group. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak about the police investigation.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 9:00am

(AP) — A truck carrying an oversize load struck a bridge on the major thoroughfare between Seattle and Canada, sending a section of the span and two vehicles into the Skagit River below, though all three occupants suffered only minor injuries.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 8:53am

(AP) — Austria said Friday that it may rethink its U.N. peacekeeping role in the Golan Heights, if the European Union doesn't extend its arms embargo to Syria.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 8:51am

(AP) — A suicide bomber struck in the heart of the Afghan capital on Friday, sending a plume of smoke billowing over Kabul in the second major attack in the city in little over a week, police said.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 8:50am

(AP) — The French government is trying to woo executives and entrepreneurs, amid concerns that it has antagonized the businesses needed to reinvigorate the economy.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 8:49am

(AP) — During a hurricane, storm surge is one of the greatest threats to life and land, yet many people don't understand the dire warnings from forecasters to get out of its way. So this season, they hope to offer easy-to-understand, color-coded maps and change the way they talk to the public.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 8:49am

(AP) — Former Giro d'Italia winner Danilo Di Luca tested positive for EPO in a surprise test at his home before this year's race, organizers announced Friday.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 8:37am

(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.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 8:31am

(AP) — The annual Cannes festival on the French Riviera is the grandest platform in the world for the highest ambitions of film, a place where the art form is worshipped with wild passion and adoring reverence. Movies are projected pristinely in regal theaters, where they're greeted by the world's cinephiles with feverish excitement.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 8:31am

(AP) — US orders for durable goods up 3.3 percent in April, helped by gain in business investment.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 8:27am

(AP) — The U.N. nuclear agency responsible for probing whether Iran has worked on a nuclear bomb depends on the United States and its allies for most of its intelligence, complicating the agency's efforts to produce findings that can be widely accepted by the international community.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 8:21am

(AP) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has cut a ribbon to symbolically reopen the state's shore for the summer season, seven months after being devastated by Superstorm Sandy.