MOSCOW (AP) -- The U.S. ambassador to Moscow on Friday called on Russian authorities and media to stop “sensational exploitations” of the death of an adopted boy in the United States.
Strike ends in Malawi with pay rise
BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) -- The Malawi government has agreed to raise public workers’ salaries by 60 percent, ending a two-week old strike, a union leader said.
Reformer's drive to change Indonesia state firms hits roadblocks
JAKARTA (Reuters) – On an overcast Saturday in early January, the man in charge of modernizing Indonesia's state companies suddenly lost control of his prototype electric sports car and ploughed into the side of a mountain in East Java. State-Owned Enterprises Minister Dahlan Iskan was unhurt, but the $300,000 bright red "Tucuxi", dubbed "Indonesia's Ferrari" by local media, was a write-off. It looks like his chances of pulling off an ambitious reform of the bloated state sector are heading the same way. … Spanish monarchy's popularity at new low as king's son-in-law ensnared in corruption case
MADRID – When King Juan Carlos appeared at a recent basketball game in front of thousands of subjects, he was greeted by persistent heckling and whistling. It was an unprecedented spectacle in a nearly four-decade reign over which the monarch has basked in the nation’s love and respect.
Spanish monarchy's popularity hits new low
MADRID (AP) -- When King Juan Carlos appeared at a recent basketball game in front of thousands of subjects, he was greeted by persistent heckling and whistling. It was an unprecedented spectacle in a nearly four-decade reign over which the monarch has basked in the nation's love and respect. 
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) -- The fourth and likely final day of Oscar Pistorius' bail hearing opened on Friday, with the magistrate then to rule if the double-amputee athlete can be freed before trial or if he has to remain in cus tody over the shooting death of his girlfriend. 
ROME (Reuters) – Authorities are checking if a wreck found on a beach of the island of Curacao could be that of a plane carrying fashion ex ecutive Vittorio Missoni which disappeared last month, Italian news wire Ansa reported on Friday, citing local sources. Missoni, the eldest son of the founders of the Missoni fashion house, disappeared with his wife and four others when their plane went missing off the coast of Venezuela in early January. … 
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India's Supreme Court on Friday allowed two Italian marines charged with the murder of two fishermen off the coast of India to return home to vote in this month's general election. The two sailors, members of a military security team protecting a cargo ship from pirate attacks, are accused of shooting the fishermen they say they mistook for pirates off the southern state of Kerala in February last year, sparking a diplomatic row between New Delhi and Rome. … 
ROME (Reuters) – Silvio Berlusconi's resurgence and the rise of a foul-mouthed populist comedian have thrown Italy� 39;s weekend election wide open, with deep uncertainty over whether the poll can produce the strong government the country needs. Italy, the euro zone's third-biggest economy, is deep in its longest recession for 20 years. Successive governments have failed to revive an economy stagnant for two decades. … 
ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam (AP) -- Dead mice laced with painkillers are about to rain down on Guam's jungle canopy. They are scientists' prescription for a headache that has caused the tiny U.S. territory misery for more than 60 years: the brown tree snake. 
HYDERABAD, India (AP) -- Indian police investigating a dual bomb attack that killed 15 people outside a movie theater and a bus station in the southern city of Hyderabad were searching for links to a shadowy Islamic militant group with reported ties to Pakistan, an official said Friday. 
CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi has issued a presidential decree calling for staggered parliamentary elections, starting April 27 and ending in June. 
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- Guatemalan authorities are mobilizing security forces to scour a remote, rural area where residents reported a gunbattle between drug gangs and said one of the dead resembled Mexico's most-wanted drug lord, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.