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  • Madrid's Catholic Church says it needs exorcists

    The Catholic archdiocese in Madrid says it needs more exorcists to help some of its faithful cope with the devil.

  • Canada: Qatar gives up bid to relocate UN agency

    Qatar has abandoned its bid to relocate the United Nations civil aviation agency from Canada to the tiny emirate, ending a bitter fight between the two nations, both countries said Friday.

  • FILE - In this Thursday, May 23, 2013 file photo, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford leaves city hall in Toronto. Ford denies that he smokes crack cocaine and says he is not an addict after a video purported to show him using the drug. Ford did not say whether he has ever used the drug.

    Toronto mayor denies he smokes crack cocaine

    Toronto Mayor Rob Ford denied Friday that he smokes crack cocaine and said he is not an addict after a video purported to show him using the drug. The mayor of Canada's largest city did not say whether he has ever used crack. Photo Gallery Available

  • US: Czech slaying suspect killed relatives

    An American man killed his uncle, aunt and cousins in the Czech Republic and then flew to the United States, where he was arrested at an airport, authorities said Friday.

  • 3 al-Qaida members, 2 soldiers dead in Yemen clash

    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.

  • FILE - In this Feb. 16, 2013 file photo, Ecuador's President Rafael Correa gives a thumbs up to supporters as he stands with the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, not in picture, on a balcony at the government palace in Quito, Ecuador. On Friday, May 24, 2013, Correa will begin his second presidential term after winning the Feb. 17 election.

    Third term begins for Ecuador's President Correa

    Ecuador's Rafael Correa began his third term as president on Friday under seemingly ideal conditions: extremely high popularity, a more than two-thirds majority in Congress, a stable economy and a badly splintered opposition.

  • A man walks by an electronic stock board outside a securities firm in Tokyo, Friday, May 24, 2013. apan's Nikkei 225 index, which plummeted more than 7 percent Thursday, bounced back a sizeable 2.8 percent to 14,892.57. The Nikkei's dramatic fall Thursday was attributed on the spike in the interest rate on the country's benchmark 10-year bond to above 1 percent for the first time in a year, which came after Fed meeting minutes showed some of its policy makers want the U.S. central bank to start scaling back its monetary stimulus.

    World stocks lower after big sell-off

    World stocks edged lower on Friday, a day after markets around the world dropped sharply on concerns global growth is slowing and the Federal Reserve could start scaling back its monetary stimulus. Photo Gallery Available

  • Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang poses together with the Swiss yodel group ''Saengerrunde Zurich'' in Embrach, Switzerland, Friday, May 24, 2013. Li Keqiang is on an official visit to Switzerland until Saturday.

    China, Switzerland to seal free trade deal

    Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is in Switzerland to seal a free trade pact with the Alpine nation - the first comprehensive agreement his country has reached with a major western economy. Photo Gallery Available

  • Kenya's mental hospital drugs, confines patients

    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.

  • Undated photo issued by the British Ministry of Defence of an RAF Typhoon Aircraft of the type that has escorted a passenger plane into Stansted Airport in southern England following an incident on board Friday May 24, 2013. British media reported the flight was a Pakistan International Airlines passenger plane flying to Manchester, England.

    UK-bound Pakistan plane diverted, 2 men arrested

    Britain scrambled fighter jets Friday to intercept a commercial airliner carrying more than 300 people from Pakistan, diverting it to an isolated runway at an airport on the outskirts of London and arresting two British passengers who allegedly threatened to destroy the plane. Photo Gallery Available

  • French President Francois Hollande leaves the ceremony to mark the 150th birthday of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, Germany, Thursday May 23, 2013.

    France won't force companies to cap executive pay

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

  • Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan defends the legislation passed earlier Friday, that bans advertising alcohol, during an address to his party members in Ankara, Turkey, Friday, May 24, 2013. Tempers flared and scuffles broke out during an all-night legislative session of parliament that passed a bill banning all forms of advertising alcohol. 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.

    Q&A: On Turkey's proposed alcohol restrictions

    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. Photo Gallery Available

  • UN nuke agency's Iran probe driven by US-led intel

    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.

  • Correction: Mozambique-UN story

    In a story May 21 about U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon visiting Mozambique, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Mozambique became independent in 1974, instead of 1975.

  • Afghan police aim their weapons after a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, May 24, 2013. A suicide bomber struck in the heart of the Afghan capital on Friday, sending a plume of smoke billowing over Kabul and setting up a gun battle in the second major attack in the city in little over a week, police said.

    Afghan Taliban attack aid group, 2 guards killed

    In the latest militant strike on the Afghan capital, Taliban gunmen backed by a suicide car bomber attacked an international aid group's compound on Friday, killing two guards and setting off an hours-long street battle with police in the heart of Kabul . Photo Gallery Available

  • Egypt: 3 women killed in suspected 'honor' crime

    A mother and two daughters were allegedly killed by male relatives in southern Egypt who believed they'd had affairs, the latest apparent example of so-called "honor killings" in which women are slain for violating traditional morals in the conservative region, a security official said Friday.

  • Zimbabwe activist: Prisoners denied AIDS drugs

    A Zimbabwean human rights activist says he wants the nation's highest court to order prison authorities to ensure suspects in jail can receive their life-prolonging HIV/AIDS medications.

  • President Barack Obama talks about national security, Thursday, May 23, 2013, at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington. Declaring America at a "crossroads" in the fight against terrorism, the president revealed clearer guidelines for the use of deadly drone strikes, including more control by the U.S. military, while leaving key details of the controversial program secret.

    Obama's drone speech could improve Pakistan ties

    President Barack Obama's decision to impose more restrictive rules governing U.S. drone strikes and his prediction that they will be used less could pave the way for better relations with the new government of key ally Pakistan, officials and analysts said Friday. Photo Gallery Available

  • Twisted metal lies at the site of a morning car bomb attack inside a military camp in Agadez, in northern Niger, Thursday, May 23, 2013. Suicide bombers in Niger detonated two car bombs simultaneously on Thursday, one inside a military camp in the city of Agadez and another in the remote town of Arlit at a French-operated uranium mine, killing a total of 26 people and injuring 30, according to officials in Niger and France. Both attacks were claimed by a spinoff of al-Qaida, the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa, or MUJAO, which earlier vowed to avenge the four-month-old French-led military intervention which ousted them from town's in Mali's north.

    French help Niger to kill last jihadist bombers

    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. Photo Gallery Available

  • Top Swiss negotiator in tax disputes steps down

    Switzerland's top negotiator in talks to resolve disputes over tax evasion with Europe and the U.S. is stepping down.

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