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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 11:28am

(AP) — Authorities say 18 people have been taken to the hospital following a crash between a hotel shuttle bus and a tractor-trailer near Atlanta's airport.

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.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 11:06am

(AP) — Denis Oswald declared his candidacy for IOC president Friday, becoming the fifth member and second European to enter the race to succeed Jacques Rogge.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 11:03am

(AP) — Two men were arrested on suspicion of endangering an aircraft Friday after a U.K. fighter jet was scrambled to divert their plane as it traveled from Pakistan to Britain, officials said. The incident further rattled the U.K. just days after a British soldier was brutally killed on a London street in a suspected terror attack.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 10:59am

(AP) — A security official says al-Qaida gunmen attacked a military position in a southern province, touching off fighting that left three militants and two soldiers dead.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 10:59am

(AP) — An American man accused of killing his uncle, aunt and cousins in the Czech Republic was arrested after fleeing to the United States.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 10:56am

(AP) — An earthquake in far northeastern California did not injure anyone but did cause moderate damage, including to a water tank that supplies hundreds of homes with drinking water, local authorities said Friday.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 10:45am

(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 10:45am

(AP) — Kid Rock is a scalper.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 10:43am

(AP) — News Corp. says its board of directors has approved plans to split its entertainment and publishing businesses into two separate companies.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 10:42am

(AP) — A suicide bomber struck in the heart of the Afghan capital on Friday, sending a plume of smoke over Kabul in the second major attack in the city in little over a week, police said. The explosion was followed by an hours-long gunbattle in the central district.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 10:42am

(AP) — With the help of French special forces, Niger's military on Friday killed the last two jihadists holed up inside a dormitory on the grounds of a military garrison in the desert town of Agadez, and freed at least two soldiers who had been held hostage by the extremists, according to French and Nigerien officials.