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Tens of thousands of protesters cram into Cairo's Tahrir Square to demonstrate against continuing military rule in Egypt.

Downing Street says the government will resist "vigorously" any application for bail by radical cleric Abu Qatada.

The pilot of a coastguard helicopter in Shetland is suspended after dropping in on a butcher in Orkney to pick up meat.

The European Parliament passes a resolution condemning a nationalisation that has strained relations between Spain and Argentina.

BRUSSELS (AP) -- An optimistic survey on the German economy lifted stocks across Europe on Friday at the end of a week that was overshadowed by worries over Spain's finances....

BRUSSELS (AP) -- The European Union parliament on Friday condemned Argentina's move to seize control of the YPF division of Spanish oil and gas giant Repsol and demanded that EU takes action against Buenos Aires at the World Trade Organization....

Firefighters are tackling a property blaze on an island in Dorset's Poole Harbour owned by a multi-millionaire.

Shelling and gunfire resumed in Syrian opposition strongholds Friday as world leaders sought tougher measures against the regime over its failure to fully implement a peace plan imposed last week.

Metro bus drivers in Belfast return to work after staging strike action on Friday over the suspension of a colleague.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) -- A U.S. Army helicopter crashed in bad weather during the night in Afghanistan as it was en route to respond to a suicide attack on a local police checkpoint, an Afghan official said Friday....

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- Maryland is poised to become the first state to ban employers from demanding applicants or workers hand over their log-in information for social media sites like Facebook....

OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Norwegian far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik took to the Internet to learn how to carry out a bombing-and-shooting rampage, studying attacks by al-Qaida, Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center....

BAGHDAD (AP) -- The Iraqi branch of al-Qaida claimed responsibility Friday for bombings that killed at least 30 people in the capital and across the country the day before, the worst wave of violence in weeks....

Elena Baltacha will play Johanna Larsson in the opening rubber of Britain's Fed Cup World Group II play-off against Sweden.

Anders Behring Breivik, who admits killing 77 people in Norway last summer, told a court in Oslo on Friday that he learned lessons from al Qaeda in planning his attacks.

Force India choose not to run their cars in the second practice session at the Bahrain GP so they can return to their hotel before dark.

DENVER (AP) -- The pungent smell of pot that blankets a popular quadrangle at the University of Colorado-Boulder every April 20 is being replaced by the stench of fish-based fertilizer Friday as administrators try to stamp out one of the nation's largest annual campus celebrations of marijuana....

Defendant worked for a business as a bookkeeper and he kept records on his work computer and one the company provided at this house. While he was on a trip, the company received mail that suggested that defendant was embezzling from it. They checked the work computer and did not find records for a whole year. They went to his house and asked for the work computer which his wife provided. Back and work they looked through the computer using the company password and found the evidence of embezzlement, which they gave to the government. This was all a private search not governed by the Fourth Amendment. United States v. Brown, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 54382 (S.D. Ind. April 18, 2012).*

It was reasonable to impound a vehicle that would have had to be left in a high crime area and was at risk of being broken into. There was not need to give the car to a present potential driver when there was no showing of insurance to drive it and the registration was expired. United States v. McKinnon, 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 7806 (5th Cir. April 18, 2012)* [Note: The court almost lost me with the insurance comment because that would be shifting the burden. They should have left that out.]

There was reasonable suspicion for defendant’s stop and frisk because it was a high crime area, defendant was walking funny like he had a gun on him, and when he “bladed” the officer could see the outline of a gun. United States v. Carson, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 54372 (D. N.J. April 18, 2012).*

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- As a beer drinker, I knew I was out of my league when I tried to open up the bottle of Purgatory....