AP - About 150 parents gathered Friday at the ruins of Fuxin No. 2 Primary School, hoping to learn why the building collapsed in last month's earthquake, killing their sons and daughters.
AP - U.S.-funded reconstruction in a one-time Sunni insurgent stronghold has been suspended because of a corruption probe, including allegations that the mayor and police chief were involved in a multimillion-dollar oil smuggling ring, The Associated Press has learned.
AP - European Union leaders want their nations to fingerprint all foreign visitors and take other new steps to keep out illegal immigrants as part of a sweeping security overhaul proposed Friday.
AP - Milivoj Asner caused a stir just by showing up at a soccer game: The frail 95-year-old is ranked No. 4 on a leading list of most-wanted Nazi war crimes suspects.
AP - Corpses lay stinking in the shade of mulberry trees and in the ruins of a collapsed storehouse. Villagers rushed home to see if their livestock had died in the heat. Afghan soldiers placed red signs warning of bombs planted alongside the road.
AFP - An Australian coroner issued a murder warrant Friday for an American man whose wife drowned in 2003 as the pair were on a scuba diving honeymoon to the Great Barrier Reef.
AFP - Indian inflation hit its highest level in 13 years, accelerating to over 11 percent after a fuel price hike, according to data Friday that piled pressure on the government as general elections loom.
Reuters - South Sudanese authorities have
begun to collect thousands of guns amassed by civilians during
decades of war to try to end tribal conflicts which claim
dozens of lives each year, officials said.
AP - A Guantanamo prisoner testified Thursday that U.S. troops made loud noises, kept the lights on in his cell, and frequently moved him around the prison to deprive him of sleep.
AP - Afghan and NATO troops backed by warplanes drove Taliban militants from villages within striking distance of southern Afghanistan's main city on Thursday, killing 56 of them, Afghan officials said.
AFP - Manchester United striker Cristiano Ronaldo will announce in the coming days whether he intends to leave Old Trafford and join Spanish giants Real Madrid, according to reports here Friday.
AP - A draft statement shows European Union leaders plan to threaten authorities in Zimbabwe with more sanctions amid reports of escalating violence against the opposition before next weeks' election.
AP - South Korea and the United States neared an agreement to renew imports of American beef, aimed at defusing a political crisis in Seoul over fears of mad cow disease, officials said Friday.
AP - Paraguayan President-elect Fernando Lugo was all smiles as he and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez embraced, talked of a revolution for the poor and pledged to build a united Latin America.
