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ISLAMABAD (AP) -- The plan to deport Osama bin Laden's three widows and their nine children from Pakistan ran into more bureaucratic hurdles on Wednesday, making it uncertain when they would leave, their lawyer said....

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- One year since U.S. commandos flew into this Pakistani army town and killed Osama bin Laden, Islamabad has failed to answer tough questions over whether its security forces were protecting the world's most wanted terrorist....

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- President Barack Obama, determined to connect his upcoming Latin American travels to voters back home, told port workers in Florida that he was headed to Colombia to find more customers for U.S. companies to help fuel the broader economic recovery at home....

BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian President Bashar Assad defended his government's crackdown on opponents Sunday, saying a doctor performing messy emergency surgery does not have blood on his hands if he is trying to save a patient....

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- The United States is drastically reducing the number of aid projects in Pakistan as part of reforms aimed at improving the distribution of billions of dollars in funding, the top U.S. aid official said Friday....

MADRID (AP) -- Spain's benchmark borrowing rate hit its highest level Tuesday since the country adopted the euro currency, after ratings agency Fitch downgraded 18 banks on Tuesday and investors continued to find more questions than answers in the country's decision to seek help for its ailing bank sector by tapping a (EURO)100 billion ($125 billion) eurozone bailout fund....

MADRID (AP) -- Spanish stocks sank and its borrowing costs rose Friday after the government released data showing the country's banks borrowed a record (EURO)316.3 billion ($415.9 billion) from the European Central Bank in March....

MADRID (AP) -- Spain's deputy prime minister is heading to Washington to discuss the country's economic crisis with the U.S. treasury secretary and the head of the IMF....

MADRID (AP) -- Spanish stocks sank and its borrowing costs rose Friday after the government released data showing the country's banks borrowed a record (EURO)316.3 billion ($415.9 billion) from the European Central Bank in March....

CAIRO (AP) -- Presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq, a former prime minister under Hosni Mubarak's regime, has attacked his Islamist rival by saying he would terrorize Christians and lead Egypt to "the dark ages."...

CAIRO (AP) -- More than 10,000 Egyptians marched from mosques and protested in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday in a show of strength by Islamists, demanding the country's ruling generals bar Hosni Mubarak's former spy chief and other ousted regime officials from running in next month's presidential elections....

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- A satellite launch North Korea had hailed as a moment of national pride ended in failure Friday when the rocket disintegrated over the Yellow Sea, earning Pyongyang embarrassment as well as condemnation from a host of nations that deemed it a covert test of missile technology....

BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) -- Soldiers have arrested the prime minister of this tiny nation known for transiting cocaine to Europe, a military spokesman said Friday, the latest instability to roil a coup-prone West African country where no leader in nearly 40 years has finished his time in office....

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- A satellite launch North Korea had hailed as a moment of national pride ended in failure Friday when the rocket disintegrated over the Yellow Sea, earning Pyongyang embarrassment as well as condemnation from a host of nations that deemed it a covert test of missile technology....

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- The top U.S. aid official says the country is drastically reducing the number of aid projects in Pakistan as part of reforms aimed at improving the distribution of billions of dollars in funding....

MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia's foreign minister said Friday that Moscow isn't discussing Syria's future without President Bashar Assad as Washington has claimed....

BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) -- Soldiers have arrested the prime minister of Guinea-Bissau, a military spokesman said Friday, hours after the leader's home was attacked with grenades in what former colonial ruler Portugal described as a military coup....

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- Prosecutors say four men charged with plotting a terror attack in Denmark were likely targeting an event that the crown prince was attending to retaliate for Danish newspapers publishing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad....

BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) -- A military press attache in the tiny, coup-prone nation of Guinea-Bissau says soldiers have arrested the country's prime minister....

LONDON (AP) -- One sports an unruly blond mop, spouts Latin aphorisms and loves to ride his bicycle. The other is a neat, newt-loving socialist who prefers to travel by subway....