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LONDON (AP) -- With less than five months until the games begin, England's mood is about as gray and gloomy as a rainy day along the River Thames....

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners agreed to halt a weekslong hunger strike on Monday in exchange for promises of better conditions, ending a standoff that left several participants clinging to life and drew thousands of Palestinians to the streets in shows of solidarity....

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....

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....

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

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....

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....

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....

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....

PATROL BASE PUL-I-ALAM, Afghanistan (AP) -- The top commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan offered a somber apology on Friday in an eastern province where officials say 18 civilians - half of them children - were killed in a coalition airstrike this week....

WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Polish health authorities have ordered the withdrawal from the market of more than 230,000 kilograms (500,000 pounds) of pickles, bread and other food suspected of containing industrial salt, the latest development in a scandal raising fears about food safety....

ROME (AP) -- Italy's president on Friday accused Britain of an "inexplicable" failure to consult with his country before a bungled attempt to rescue an Italian and a Briton being held in Nigeria by kidnappers claiming ties to al-Qaida....

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

Fearing that climate change could wipe out their entire Pacific archipelago, the leaders of Kiribati are considering an unusual backup plan: moving the populace to Fiji....

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....