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Are we ready for a cease-fire in the Mommy Wars?
NEW YORK (AP) You could call Elisabeth Badinter a very lucky woman. It's not just that she's wealthy, successful, a respected scholar and a best-selling writer in her home country, France (yep, she gets to live in Paris, too.) It's
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Awards honor teens in science competition
WASHINGTON (AP) A Maryland teenager has won $75,000 for coming up with a screening method for early-stage pancreatic cancer. Jack Thomas Andraka of Crownsville, Md., won this year's Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. The 15-year-old won for his work
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US official favors church, state separation
WASHINGTON (AP) A top Obama administration official is paying homage to religious freedom and the separation of church and state in a speech at Georgetown University, after Roman Catholic church authorities lambasted the school's invitation for her to speak. In
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Bahrain protesters decry unity plans with Saudis
MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) Tens of thousands of protesters chanting "Bahrain is not for sale" jammed a major highway Friday to denounce proposals for closer unity between the unrest-torn Gulf kingdom and neighboring Saudi Arabia. The rally's large turnout demonstrators stretched
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Facebook set to begin trading after $16B offering
NEW YORK (AP) Facebook is about to find out just how much status updates, puppy photos and billions of "likes" are worth on Wall Street, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg ringing the Nasdaq Stock Market opening bell Friday morning from company
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Sebelius speech embraces church, state separation
WASHINGTON (AP) Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is paying homage to religious freedom and the separation of church and state in a graduation speech at Georgetown University, after Catholic church authorities lambasted the school's invitation for her to
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Pope praises US efforts to welcome immigrants
VATICAN CITY (AP) Pope Benedict XVI has praised the "great generosity" of American Catholics in welcoming new immigrants and backed the commitment of bishops in the United States to immigration reform. Benedict on Friday held the last of a series
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Ex-BP engineer challenges travel restrictions
NEW ORLEANS (AP) A former BP engineer charged with deleting text messages about the company's response to the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is asking for a federal judge's permission to travel freely throughout the U.S. while
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Jury begins deliberations in John Edwards case
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) A jury started weighing Friday morning whether John Edwards committed a crime when money from two wealthy donors was used to hide his pregnant mistress during the candidate's run for the 2008 White House. Jurors heard about
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In 'Moonrise Kingdom,' Wes Anderson relocates
CANNES, France (AP) In Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom," the famously meticulous director takes his fastidiously fashioned world and flings it into the woods. Even a relatively loose Anderson film is more ornately composed than most dollhouses, so no one should
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FAA to reopen fatigue rules for cargo pilots
WASHINGTON (AP) The Federal Aviation Administration says it made "errors" by exempting cargo airlines from rules to prevent pilot fatigue and will revisit the issue. The FAA issued an overhaul of pilot-scheduling rules in December, but the new rules applied
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Spanish government OKs freedom of information law
MADRID (AP) Spain's government has given the green light to a new freedom of information law aimed at giving taxpayers a better look at how their money is spent, while punishing officials who miss budget targets. The approval came Friday
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Serbian capital Belgrade setting up gay safe house
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) Belgrade's mayor says authorities in Serbia's capital are setting up temporary housing for gays and lesbians rejected by their families. Dragan Djilas says "it is shameful that we live in a country where someone could give up
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Ohio unemployment rate down for 9th straight month
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Ohio's unemployment rate has dropped for the ninth month in a row. The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services said Friday that seasonally adjusted joblessness inched downward from 7.5 percent in March to 7.4 percent in
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Oil edges up to near $93 after big 2-week sell-off
Oil prices edged toward $93 a barrel Friday as financial markets stabilized after a sharp two-week sell-off caused by the latest flare-up in Europe's debt crisis and a gloomy economic outlook. By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark oil for June
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Top Israel court tightens enforcement of equal pay
JERUSALEM (AP) Israeli feminists on Friday welcomed a Supreme Court ruling they say will help enforce equal pay laws for men and women. The ruling, issued Thursday, requires employers paying different wages to men and women to prove it is
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Divided but peaceful 2 years after Thai violence
BANGKOK (AP) Just two years ago, Thailand was at war with itself. Rifle shots and exploding grenades rang out in Bangkok as troops crushed through barricades to disperse a nine-week-old insurrection. A retired nurse was the last to capitulate. "I
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Malawi's president vows to repeal gay ban
BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) President Joyce Banda declared Friday she wants to repeal Malawi's laws against homosexual acts, going against a trend in Africa in which gays are being increasingly singled out for prosecution. Banda, who assumed the presidency in April
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US eases economic sanctions to reward Myanmar
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama declared a new chapter in U.S. relations with Myanmar, easing an investment ban and naming the first U.S. ambassador to the former pariah state in 22 years to reward it for democratic reforms. Both Republican
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Myanmar welcomes easing of US economic sanctions
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) Officials and businessmen in Myanmar welcomed U.S. plans to ease economic sanctions, saying Friday it will benefit both countries in a market long cut off from most Western investment. However, human rights activists are wary and some
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Vietnam arrests 4 shipping executives in scandal
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) State media say Vietnamese police have arrested four senior executives at a major state-owned shipping company for alleged mismanagement in another high-profile scandal. Online VnExpress says Duong Chi Dung, former chairman of Vietnam National Shipping Lines, or
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UN: Monitors alone cannot end Syria bloodshed
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) The head of a U.N. observer team in Syria cautioned Friday that the mission cannot achieve a permanent end to the violence without genuine talks between both sides in the conflict that have been locked in battle
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Largest protests yet in Syrian city of Aleppo
BEIRUT (AP) Syrian security forces fired tear gas and live ammunition to disperse thousands rallying Friday in Aleppo in what activists said was the largest protest yet in a city that has largely remained loyal to President Bashar Assad during
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UN rights panel probes use of mercenaries in Libya
GENEVA (AP) U.N. human rights experts say they will visit Libya next week to examine the use of mercenaries to fight the uprising that eventually brought down Moammar Gadhafi's four-decade dictatorship. Faiza Patel, head of the U.N. Human Rights Council
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Jury to begin deliberations in John Edwards case
DURHAM, North Carolina (AP) Jurors were set to begin deliberating the fate of John Edwards on Friday, weighing nearly four weeks of testimony and evidence from the former presidential candidate's corruption trial. Edwards is charged with six criminal counts of
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