Ex-NBA player stabbed, seriously injured in fight
Sat, 18 May 2013 08:26:45 -0400
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbian police say Predrag Danilovic, who played for the Miami Heat and Dallas Mavericks, is seriously injured after being stabbed in a fight.

Conn., NTSB officials to tour train crash site
Sat, 18 May 2013 08:26:14 -0400
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Officials in Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's office say the governor will meet with representatives from the National Transportation Safety Board and Connecticut's two U.S. senators at the site of a Metro-North Railroad crash that injured 70 people.

Probe begins after Conn. commuter trains crash
Sat, 18 May 2013 08:25:13 -0400
FAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) — Two commuter trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in an accident that sent about 70 people to the hospital, severely damaged the tracks and threatened to snarl travel in the congested Northeast Corridor.

Hot off the press: Seen and heard in Cannes
Sat, 18 May 2013 08:16:59 -0400
CANNES, France (AP) — Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival:

Eight killed, 10 policemen kidnapped in Iraq's Sunni heartland
Sat, 18 May 2013 08:16:06 -0400
RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) - Suspected Sunni Muslim militants killed four state-backed Sunni fighters in Iraq on Saturday, security sources said, apparently viewing them as collaborators with the Shi'ite-led government of a nation plagued by sectarian hatred. Sunni-Shi'ite tensions in Iraq have been amplified by the conflict between mostly Sunni rebels and President Bashar al-Assad's Alawite-dominated forces in neighboring Syria. ...

Hard-line Afghan MPs block law protecting women
Sat, 18 May 2013 08:03:38 -0400
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Conservative religious lawmakers in Afghanistan blocked a law on Saturday that aims to protect women's freedoms, with some arguing that parts of it violate Islamic principles or encourage women to have sex outside of marriage.

Ryder Cup players into last 8 at World Match Play
Sat, 18 May 2013 07:52:07 -0400
KAVARNA, Bulgaria (AP) — Ryder Cup-winning teammates Graeme McDowell, Nicolas Colsaerts and Francesco Molinari are through to the quarterfinals of the World Match Play Championship.

U.S. chides Russia over missiles as peace plans suffer
Sat, 18 May 2013 07:50:30 -0400
By Erika Solomon BEIRUT (Reuters) - The United States chided Russia for sending missiles to the Syrian government as plans for a peace conference promoted by Washington and Moscow were hit by diplomatic rifts over its scope and purpose. Sectarian bloodshed in neighboring Iraq during Friday prayers, a hacking attack on a Western newspaper by sympathizers of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and defiant comments by a rebel commander filmed eating a slain soldier's flesh were all reminders of how the two-year-old civil war is metastising. ...

Serena Williams reaches Italian Open final
Sat, 18 May 2013 07:49:58 -0400
ROME (AP) — A week out from the French Open, Serena Williams is one victory away from winning her fourth consecutive title this year.

Rome protest turns up heat on new PM Letta
Sat, 18 May 2013 07:47:00 -0400
ROME (Reuters) - Thousands of people protested in Rome on Saturday against austerity policies and high unemployment, urging new Prime Minister Enrico Letta to focus on creating jobs to help pull the country out of recession. "We hope that this government will finally start listening to us because we are losing our patience," said Enzo Bernardis, who joined the sea of protesters waving red flags and calling for more workers' rights and better contracts. ...