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  • Irishman charged with 1982 IRA Hyde Park bombing

    LONDON (AP) -- A 61-year-old Irishman has been charged with the Irish Republican Army bombing of the queen's ceremonial cavalry in Hyde Park in 1982 that killed four soldiers and seven horses. (   05/22/2013 6:51 AM )

  • Pussy Riot member declares hunger strike in prison

    BEREZNIKI, Russia (AP) -- An imprisoned member of the punk band Pussy Riot says she is going on hunger strike after a judge refused to allow her to attend a court hearing where she was seeking release on parole. (   05/22/2013 6:47 AM )

  • Germany celebrates composer Wagner's 200th

    BERLIN (AP) -- Germany on Wednesday celebrated the 200th birthday of Richard Wagner, the 19th-century composer whose music has been hailed as sublime art at the height of Western culture even as he remains tainted by his visceral anti-Semitic views, which later found favor with the Nazis. (   05/22/2013 6:44 AM )

  • Germany backs terror label for Hezbollah militants

    BERLIN (AP) -- Germany says it supports adding the military wing of the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah to the European Union's list of terrorist groups. (   05/22/2013 6:41 AM )

  • EU leaders discuss fight against tax evasion

    BRUSSELS (AP) -- The European Union's leaders are seeking to advance their fight against tax evasion and close loopholes for large corporations' creative tax avoidance schemes. (   05/22/2013 6:22 AM )

  • Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival

    CANNES, France (AP) -- Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. (   05/22/2013 5:42 AM )

  • Bank of England remains divided on stimulus

    LONDON (AP) -- The Bank of England's policymakers remain divided on whether to provide more stimulus to the flat-lining economy, according to the minutes of their meeting in May. (   05/22/2013 5:42 AM )

  • Monroe's photos for Prague exhibition stolen

    PRAGUE (AP) -- A publicist for an upcoming Marilyn Monroe exhibition in Prague says that photographs of the star have been stolen. (   05/22/2013 5:38 AM )

  • Riots in Stockholm spread to more suburbs

    STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Groups of youth have smashed shop windows, set cars ablaze and burnt down a cultural center as the riots that started in one Stockholm suburb after a fatal police shooting spread to other low-income areas of the Swedish capital. (   05/22/2013 5:08 AM )

  • The pope and the devil: Is Francis an exorcist?

    VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Is Pope Francis an exorcist? The question has bubbled up ever since Francis laid his hands on the head of a young man in a wheelchair after celebrating Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square. The young man heaved deeply a half-dozen times, shook, then slumped in his wheelchair as Francis prayed over him. The television station of the Italian bishops' conference reported Monday that it had surveyed exorcists, who agreed there was ''no doubt'' that Francis either performed an exorcism or a prayer to free the man from the devil. The Vatican was more cautious. In a statement Tuesday, it said Francis ''didn't intend to perform any exorcism. But as he often does for the sick or suffering, he simply intended to pray for someone who was suffering who was presented to him.''(   05/22/2013 12:00 AM )

  • Pigeon sale yields world record for feathered Bolt

    BRUSSELS (AP) -- Flying high above Europe's economic crisis, a local lightning-fast pigeon called Bolt became the world's most expensive racing bird when his Belgian breeder sold it for 310,000 euros ($400,000) to a Chinese businessman. One-year-old Bolt, named after the Jamaican Olympic superstar sprinter Usain Bolt, and with an outstanding pedigree of proven champions to match, was the latest Belgian-bred pigeon to claim record prices. The previous record for a sale of a single bird stood at 250,000 euros ($322,000) from January 2012. ''I was stunned by the prices offered," Pipa auction house CEO Nikolaas Gyselbrecht said Tuesday. At a time when a crisis is holding Europe in an ever tighter grip, a feathered handful of prime fowl of some 450 grams (a pound) is reaching unparalleled levels.(   05/22/2013 12:00 AM )

  • Suicide at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris

    PARIS (AP) -- Some 1,500 visitors were cleared out of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris after a man put a letter on the altar of the 850-year-old monument Tuesday, pulled out a gun, and shot himself in the head. It's the first suicide in decades at the landmark site, Monsignor Patrick Jacquin, the cathedral's rector, told The Associated Press. ''It's unfortunate, it's dramatic, it's shocking,'' Jacquin said. The motives for the suicide, and the contents of the man's letter, were unclear. In a message on her Twitter account, French far-right politician Marine Le Pen named the victim as a far-right author and historian. Police officials could not be reached to confirm the identification.(   05/22/2013 12:00 AM )

  • The pope and the devil: Is Francis an exorcist?

    VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis' fascination with the devil took on remarkable new twists Tuesday, with a well-known exorcist insisting Francis helped "liberate" a Mexican man possessed by four different demons despite the Vatican's insistence that no such papal exorcism took place. (   05/21/2013 6:32 PM )

  • Suicide at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris

    PARIS (AP) -- Some 1,500 visitors were cleared out of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris after a man put a letter on the altar of the 850-year-old monument Tuesday, pulled out a gun and shot himself in the head. (   05/21/2013 5:52 PM )

  • UN: Drop in Syrians reaching Jordan, unclear why

    GENEVA (AP) -- U.N. officials said Tuesday that the number of Syrian refugees arriving in Jordan has suddenly fallen from an average of 2,500 a day to fewer than 20, and they are trying to quickly figure out why. (   05/21/2013 5:10 PM )

  • Gay marriage bill clears UK House of Commons

    LONDON (AP) -- Britain's House of Commons has passed a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in England and Wales. (   05/21/2013 4:35 PM )

  • Does France have right plan to revive its economy?

    PARIS (AP) -- The man charged with reviving France's shrinking economy and attracting businesses to invest here is gaining a reputation for doing the opposite. (   05/21/2013 3:10 PM )

  • Gandhi's 'blood sample' fails to sell in Britain

    LONDON (AP) -- Dozens of Mohandas Gandhi's personal items have been sold at an auction, but a sample of blood purportedly from the Indian independence leader didn't draw high enough bids. (   05/21/2013 2:43 PM )

  • Warsaw ghetto insurgent Boruch Spiegel dies at 93

    WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Boruch Spiegel, one of the last remaining survivors of the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising by poorly armed Jewish insurgents against the powerful Nazi German force that occupied Poland, has died. He was 93. (   05/21/2013 2:29 PM )

  • Algerian president leaves Paris military hospital

    PARIS (AP) -- Officials say Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has left the French military hospital where he has been treated for nearly a month and transferred to another facility. (   05/21/2013 2:23 PM )

  • France: Drugmaker on trial, suspected in deaths

    NANTERRE, France (AP) -- The makers of a diabetes and weight loss drug suspected in the deaths of hundreds of people went on trial Tuesday, facing charges they misled the public about the product's safety. (   05/21/2013 1:36 PM )

  • Germany's SAP to recruit tech staff with autism

    BERLIN (AP) -- German software giant SAP AG said Tuesday it plans to recruit people with autism to take make full use of their talents to process information. (   05/21/2013 1:30 PM )

  • Burberry's profit hit by perfume deal's demise

    LONDON (AP) -- British luxury brand Burberry said Tuesday that rapidly improving business in developing markets was offset by the end of a perfume licensing deal, dragging net profit down 3 percent for the year. (   05/21/2013 1:01 PM )

  • Pope expresses solidarity with tornado survivors

    VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis has expressed his "closeness to the families of all who died in the Oklahoma tornado," with special concern for "those who lost young children." (   05/21/2013 12:53 PM )

  • Pigeon sale yields world record for feathered Bolt

    BRUSSELS (AP) -- Flying high above Europe's economic crisis, a local lightning-fast pigeon called Bolt became the world's most expensive racing bird when his Belgian breeder sold it for 310,000 euros ($400,000) to a Chinese businessman. (   05/21/2013 12:37 PM )