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• Earthquake jolts northern Italy; at least 6 dead
  A 6.0-magnitude earthquake strikes near the northern Italian city of Camposanto, killing at least six people. In January, the area was struck by a 5.3-magnitude quake.
• NATO summit opens amid protests
  The road map out of the war in Afghanistan is expected to be drawn up by U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders when they gather Sunday at the NATO summit in Chicago.
• Chinese activist arrives in U.S.
  Cheers greet activist Chen Guangcheng as he arrives in New York after finally boarding a flight out of China with his family after weeks of delicate diplomatic negotiations.
• Zuckerberg updates FB status: Married
  Facebook co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg married longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan on Saturday.
• ‘Faulty valve’ stopped rocket launch
  SpaceX's launch of the first private spacecraft bound for the International Space Station has been rescheduled for next week after the mission was aborted Saturday a half a second before liftoff, the company said.
• 6 Georgia school buses in pile-up
  Six school buses bound for a metro Atlanta amusement park were involved in a multi-vehicle crash Saturday, sending 65 people to the hospital, including a seriously injured driver, Georgia authorities said.
• Memorial service for Mary Kennedy
  Mary Richardson Kennedy was remembered Saturday as a best friend who lived life to the fullest while battling depression.
• G8 stresses need for growth
  Concerns about whether debt-laden Greece will be forced to pull out of the eurozone, and what that would mean for a weakened European economy is the first topic on Saturday's agenda at the Group of Eight summit hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama, a senior administration official said.
• $1.5M bail for alleged NATO terrorists
  An Illinois judge set bail at $1.5 million for each of the three suspects accused of traveling to Chicago "to commit acts of domestic terrorism" during the NATO summit.

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• ‘Car bomb’ near Syrian military center
  A car explosion rattled the city of Deir Ezzor on Saturday, opposition activists and the Syrian regime said.
• China dissident ready to open new chapter in his life
  Chen Guangcheng, the Chinese activist who ignited a diplomatic frenzy when he escaped house arrest, says he is at Beijing airport ready to fly to New York.
• Olympic torch starts journey round UK
  The Olympic torch began its 70-day, 8,000-mile journey around Britain Saturday from Land's End in Cornwall, with three-time Olympic gold medal winner Ben Ainslie the first to carry the torch.
• Austerity tops agenda at G8 summit
  How to extricate Greece from financial mayhem will be top of the agenda as G8 leaders meet for a weekend summit hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama at Camp David.
• Soldier to be tried in comrades’ killings
  A sergeant accused of killing five comrades at a combat stress clinic at a U.S. base in Iraq more than three years ago is mentally fit to stand trial on charges of premeditated murder, the Army said.
• New protests flare up in Bahrain
  Protesters in Bahrain marched through the streets Friday to criticize government plans to boost cooperation between the island state and Saudi Arabia.
• Abducted Mexican journalist found dead
  The body of a crime reporter who had been abducted Thursday in northwest Sonora State was found Friday inside a plastic bag south of Sonora, Notimex reported.
• Hollande: France will pull Afghan forces
  France's newly elected President Francois Hollande said Friday that he is sticking to his campaign pledge to remove his country's forces from Afghanistan by the end of the year.
• Facebook shares frenzy fizzles out
  Frenzied buying pushes Facebook shares higher in early trade, but by the end of session the Nasdaq's newest stock closes just above its $38 open price.

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• Reactions
  Friends may be priceless. But 'friending' is worth $38 a share.
• Al Qaeda: Rise against Yemen president
  Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri urged people in Saudi Arabia to follow the example set by popular revolutions in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia and rise up.
• Blasts at Baghdad pet market kill five
  Three roadside bombs exploded Friday in quick succession at an outdoor pet market in Baghdad, killing five people and wounding 31 others, police officials said.
• Queen’s Jubilee lunch guests criticized
  Rights groups have slammed a lunch being hosted by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II on Friday for including monarchs criticized over their countries' human rights records.
• U.N.: Observers dampen Syria violence
  Syrian forces opened fire Friday on anti-government demonstrators in Aleppo, the opposition claimed, a day after thousands purportedly took to the streets calling for an end to the regime in a city widely considered a stronghold of President Bashar al-Assad.
• Israel in plea for Olympic memorial
  Israel's deputy foreign minister is taking to social media to pressure the International Olympic Committee to reverse its stance against a moment of silence at the London Games for 11 Israeli athletes and coaches killed at the 1972 games.
• Chinese tycoon jailed for smuggling
  A Chinese court on Friday sentenced Lai Changxing, a tycoon who spent more than a decade as a fugitive in Canada, to life in prison for smuggling and bribery, the state-run news agency Xinhua reported.
• Pakistan’s Zardari to be at NATO summit
  President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan will attend the NATO summit meeting about Afghanistan in Chicago this weekend, his office said in a statement Thursday.
• Iran threatens to sue Google over map
  Iran has threatened legal action against Google for not labeling the Persian Gulf on its maps.

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• Zardari to attend Afghan NATO summit
  President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan will attend the NATO summit meeting about Afghanistan in Chicago this weekend, his office said in a statement Thursday.
• U.N. report: Iran shipping arms to Syria
  A confidential U.N. report reveals Iran is exporting arms to the Syrian government in violation of a ban on weapons sales, the same day President Bashar al-Assad blamed the violence in his country on the work of foreign-backed fighters.
• Pakistan air force jets collide in midair
  Two Pakistani Air Force planes collided in midair Thursday, killing the pilots and injuring people on the ground, according to local police.
• Ratko Mladic trial shifts to Srebrenica
  Prosecutors shifted focused to the Srebrenica massacre Thursday as the war crimes trial of Ratko Mladic, who is accused of orchestrating a horrific campaign of ethnic cleansing during the bloody civil war that ripped apart Yugoslavia, continued.
• Is N. Korea working on reactor?
  North Korea has resumed work on the construction of a reactor that could help it push forward its nuclear weapons program, according to an academic group's analysis of a recent satellite image.
• 7 dead in attack on Afghan governor
  Suicide attackers with explosives stormed a governor's compound in southwestern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing themselves and seven people, officials said.
• Al Qaeda video rips Yemeni president
  Al-Qaeda's leader is calling for the Yemeni people to rise up against the country's new president, portraying him as the stooge of the unpopular former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, and the United States.
• Greeks form caretaker government as crisis deepens
  A day after Greece’s caretaker prime minister was sworn in, an interim Cabinet will be formed amid growing concerns the crisis-hit country will exit the eurozone.
• Hollande chooses moderate Cabinet
  New French President Francois Hollande has chosen mostly moderates for his Cabinet, indicating an effort to build a broad coalition in the country.

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• Taylor to address war crimes court
  Charles Taylor is expected Wednesday to address the international court in the Netherlands that found him guilty last month of aiding and abetting war crimes in Sierra Leone.
• Indian cricketers suspended after sting
  India's cricket board have suspended five players accused of corruption following an undercover TV probe.
• Syria opposition: Refugees attacked
  Syrians seeking cover at a camp for displaced residents came under attack Wednesday by government forces, an opposition group said, unable to escape the violence that has tormented the country for 14 months.
• Long-awaited Mladic war crimes trial opens
  Ratko Mladic, accused of orchestrating an ethnic cleansing campaign that prosecutors say included the massacre of 8,000 Muslims in Bosnia, goes on trial Wednesday.
• U.S. says it’s ready to receive Chen
  The United States says it has taken all the necessary steps on its side to admit Chen Guangcheng, the Chinese human rights activist who ignited a diplomatic frenzy when he escaped house arrest last month.
• Greeks tackle caretaker government
  Unable to cobble together a workable coalition, Greek President Karolos Papoulias has called for all parties to meet with him Wednesday to set up a caretaker government that will conduct new elections.
• Flight recorder of Russian plane found
  Indonesian authorities said Wednesday that they had found part of the flight recorder of the Russian passenger jet that crashed into the side of a volcano during a demonstration flight last week, killing 45 people.
• Child actress among Nepal crash dead
  A 14-year-old Indian actress, Taruni Sachdev, was among the passengers who died in Monday's plane crash in Nepal, officials said.
• With Merkel, Hollande pushes growth
  France's newly inaugurated Socialist president Francois Hollande delves into the economic mess, calling for policies that would spur growth in the ailing eurozone.

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