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KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -- The wildly successful viral video campaign to raise global awareness of a brutal Central Africa rebel leader is attracting criticism from Ugandans, some who said Friday that the 30-minute video misrepresents the complicated history of Africa's longest-running conflict....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The solar storm that seemed to be more fizzle than fury got much stronger early Friday before fading again....

ATLANTA (AP) -- The nation's largest private prison company made an enticing offer to 48 states that went something like this: We will buy your prison now if you agree to keep it mostly full and promise to pay us for running it over the next two decades. Despite a need for cash, several states immediately slammed the door on the offer, a sign that privatizing prisons might not be as popular as it once was....

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- They never knew Dharun Ravi to say anything bad about gays - but they also never discussed it with him....

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) -- "Safe havens" for civilians in Syria? Think twice, Bosnians would warn....

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The gunman who killed an employee at a University of Pittsburgh psychiatric clinic and shot several others wasn't carrying identification, and his fingerprints have yielded no clues to his identity - but the mother of the slain worker said Friday that she doesn't believe the shooter knew her son....

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- An Israeli airstrike killed the commander of the militant group behind the abduction of Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit and a second militant in Gaza on Friday in the highest profile attack against the coastal strip in months....

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece's creditors agreed Friday to take cents on the euro in the biggest debt writedown in history, providing much-needed breathing room for European nations living beyond their means. The agreement paves the way for Greece to receive an enormous second bailout in the hopes of containing the crisis before it drags the entire continent further into chaos....

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI waded deep into U.S. campaign politics Friday, urging visiting U.S. bishops to beef up their teaching about the evils of premarital sex and cohabitation, and denouncing what he called the "powerful" gay marriage lobby in America....

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI waded deep into U.S. campaign politics Friday, urging visiting U.S. bishops to beef up their teaching about the evils of premarital sex and cohabitation, and denouncing what he called the "powerful" gay marriage lobby in America....

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) -- A Virginia Beach man who racked up at least 25 arrests for drunken driving in several states has been sentenced to seven years in prison....

NEW YORK (AP) -- The American computer hacker who shook the Internet underground by becoming an FBI informant didn't just break the law on the Web. Documents indicate he also carried a gun and was involved in drug dealing....

TOKYO (AP) -- Just four hours after the tsunami swept into the Fukushima nuclear power plant, Japan's leaders knew the reactors could melt but kept their knowledge secret for months, showed reconstructed documents released Friday, almost a year after the disaster....

LONDON (AP) -- Police have arrested a man suspected of hacking into the website of a major British abortion provider, vandalizing it and stealing sensitive data, officials said Friday....

DETROIT (AP) -- An Obama administration official has announced a new rule that prohibits owners and operators of U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development-funded housing from inquiring about an applicant's sexual orientation or gender identity....

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- The Obama administration has told Palestinian leaders to expect little help with their statehood bid during the U.S. presidential campaign, the Palestinian foreign minister said Friday....

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- A family friend says a former Rutgers University student accused of using a webcam to spy on his roommate's intimate encounter with another man never expressed anti-gay views to him....

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The University of Pittsburgh psychiatric clinic gunman who killed an employee and shot several others wasn't carrying identification and his fingerprints have yielded no clues to his identity - but the mother of the slain employee said Friday she doesn't believe the gunman knew her son....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A suicide bomber on a motorcycle killed at least 10 people, including three American soldiers, at a park in a relatively peaceful area of northern Afghanistan on Wednesday, part of an increase in violence at the start of the spring fighting season....

TOKYO (AP) -- Reconstructed documents show Japanese leaders knew hours after the tsunami that the Fukushima nuclear power plant's reactors could melt, but kept their knowledge from the public for months....