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Iran's Kiarostami goes to Japan for latest film
CANNES, France (AP) -- Abbas Kiarostami has found inspiration far from home....
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Head of US nuclear safety agency to step down
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Monday he is resigning amid accusations by fellow commissioners that he acted like a bully....
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Georgia, Azerbaijan restore full monastery access
GARDABANI, Georgia (AP) -- Pilgrims to one of former Soviet Georgia's most renowned monasteries, part of which lies in Azerbaijan, are again able to visit the entire complex after an agreement between the countries' border police....
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Notre Dame sues over Obama birth control mandate
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) -- The University of Notre Dame is suing Obama administration officials over the mandate requiring most employers to cover birth control....
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Study: Simple scope exam cuts colon cancer deaths
A big study finds that a simple, cheaper scope exam of just the lower part of the bowel can cut the risk of developing colon cancer or dying of the disease....
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Trial of ex-P&G, Goldman board member starts in NY
NEW YORK (AP) -- Jury selection has begun at the insider trading trial of a former board member for Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble....
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Court won't reduce student's music download fine
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court won't reduce the $675,000 verdict against a Boston University student who illegally downloaded 30 songs and shared them on the Internet....
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Disputed dinosaur fossil auctioned for $1M in NYC
NEW YORK (AP) -- A dinosaur dispute is brewing between the Mongolian government and an American auction house, which sold a fossil of a fearsome T. Rex relative despite a court order not to....
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High court will take up wiretaps lawsuit
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court says it will consider shutting down a legal challenge to a law that lets the United States eavesdrop on overseas communications....
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Greece's new prime minister meets party leaders
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece's newly installed caretaker prime minister began talks with party leaders Monday ahead of this week's European Union summit that's expected to focus on ways of kick starting economic growth across the continent....
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Visceral performances bring stardom for Tom Hardy
CANNES, France (AP) -- The allure of movie stardom is becoming evident to Tom Hardy....
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Alain Resnais back in Cannes competition at 89
CANNES, France (AP) -- The Cannes Film Festival has received a dose of theater in the form of French director Alain Resnais' new film....
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Ukrainians launch hosting project for Euro 2012
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- A group of Ukrainian activists has launched a project to provide free accommodation, translation and other services to foreign guests attending the Euro 2012 football championship following criticism of the prices being charged by many hotels....
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NATO touts Afghan war's end as fighting goes on
CHICAGO (AP) -- As President Barack Obama and fellow NATO leaders herald the coming end of the deeply unpopular Afghanistan war, they face the grim reality of two more years of fighting ahead and more of their troops sure to die in combat....
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S. Africa's most famous township gets new theater
JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- South Africa's most famous township, Soweto, is getting its first state-of-the-art theater that could spark a theater revival in the area known for its apartheid-era works that exposed the horrors of racist rule....
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Greece's new prime minister meets party leaders
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece's newly installed caretaker prime minister is holding talks with party leaders ahead of Wednesday's European Union summit as campaigning gets underway for next month's elections....
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Trial starting for Fort Hood bomb plot suspect
WACO, Texas (AP) -- Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday in the trial of a soldier accused of planning to bomb a Texas restaurant filled with Fort Hood troops last summer....
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Romney faced leadership test in Big Dig tragedy
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney was at his New Hampshire vacation home on a summer night in 2006 when 26 tons of concrete ceiling panels in one of Boston's Big Dig highway tunnels collapsed, crushing a car and killing a female passenger....
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Golden Gate celebrates 75th with help of engineers
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The Golden Gate Bridge was heralded as an engineering marvel when it opened in 1937....
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Chinese company to buy US movie theater chain AMC
BEIJING (AP) -- A Chinese conglomerate announced Monday it will buy a major U.S. cinema chain, AMC Entertainment Holdings, for $2.6 billion in China's biggest corporate takeover in the United States to date....
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Free bicycles help keep Indian girls in school
RAMPUR SINGHARA, India (AP) -- The daily trip to high school was expensive, long and eventually, too much for Indian teenager Nahid Farzana, who decided she was going to drop out. Then, the state government gave her a bicycle....
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3 climbers die on Mount Everest, 2 still missing
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) -- A Nepalese mountaineering official says three climbers returning from the summit of Mount Everest have died and two more are missing....
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In Joplin, a senior year to remember after tornado
JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) -- Joplin High School's Class of 2012 will cap a senior year marked by tragedy and perseverance Monday night with a commencement speech by President Barack Obama....
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CDC: Half of overweight teens have heart risk
ATLANTA (AP) -- Half the nation's overweight teens have unhealthy blood pressure, cholesterol or blood sugar levels that put them at risk for future heart attacks and other cardiac problems, new federal research says....
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Study: 2,000 convicted then exonerated in 23 years
WASHINGTON (AP) -- More than 2,000 people who were falsely convicted of serious crimes have been exonerated in the United States in the past 23 years, according to a new archive compiled at two universities....
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