NEW YORK (AP) — Tableau Software shares soared in their trading debut Friday after the company and some of its investors raised about $254.2 million in its initial public offering.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service's improper use of tougher scrutiny of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status seems part of a broader pattern of intimidation and cover-ups by the Obama administration, a top House Republican said Friday.

N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Chad had issued arrest warrants for four senior allies of the country's exiled former president and charged them with human rights abuses, a senior government source said on Friday. The source, who asked not to be identified, said they were wanted in connection with atrocities carried out during the rule of the country's former leader Hissene Habre. Habre fled to Senegal after he was ousted in a coup by current President Idriss Deby in 1990. There were no details of the specific accusations against his former officials. ...

BRUSSELS (AP) — The small glass bottle filled, and refilled, with golden olive oil has long been a staple on many restaurant tables across Europe. Now, the European Union is going to ban it.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Uzbekistan national living in Boise was in court Friday on federal charges from Idaho and Utah that he gave support, cash and other resources to help a recognized terrorist group in his home country plan a terrorist attack there.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sonic the Hedgehog is rolling with Nintendo.

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Soldiers in northeast Nigeria shelled suspected camps of Islamic extremists in the first military action of a new offensive against the insurgents, killing at least 21 people, a security official said Friday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The outgoing head of the Internal Revenue Service acknowledged on Friday that the tax agency planned its initial disclosure about having targeted conservative groups through a planted question at a lawyers' conference. Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller told lawmakers during a Capitol Hill hearing that the question-and-answer session that exposed the tax agency's targeting of conservative groups for extra scrutiny had been carefully planned. ...

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — The Arab Spring may finally be en route to Algeria.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The International Monetary Fund said Friday that substantial risks still loom for the Cypriot economy even after a multi-billion dollar international bailout aimed at averting a debt default.

PARIS (AP) — Suspected thieves ripped out a small safe from the wall of a hotel room near the Cannes Film Festival and made off with about $1 million worth of jewelry inside, a French police official said Friday.

BALTIMORE (AP) — President Barack Obama is leaving behind scandal-focused Washington to focus on the country's slowly improving jobs picture.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — O.J. Simpson's former lawyer has some explaining to do.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A measure of future U.S. economic growth dipped last week, while the annualized growth rate also pulled back, a research group said on Friday. The Economic Cycle Research Institute, a New York-based independent forecasting group, said its Weekly Leading Index fell to 130.2 in the week ended May 10 from 131.0 the previous week. The index's annualized growth rate slipped to 7.0 percent from 7.4 percent a week earlier. (Reporting by Leah Schnurr; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)

GRANBURY, Texas (AP) — In a story May 16 about tornadoes that swept through North Texas, The Associated Press misspelled the name of the executive director for Trinity Habitat for Humanity in Fort Worth. He is Gage Yager, not Yeager.

BEIJING (AP) — China is phasing out its reliance on executed prisoners for donated organs, but an architect of the country's transplant system said Friday that ingrained cultural attitudes are impeding the rise of donations among the general population.

MUMBAI, India (AP) — In the early morning heat and dust, daily practice at the Rambo Circus is in full swing. A trapeze creaks as two performers perfect their throws. A Colombian daredevil shouts to his colleagues scrambling atop a giant set of spinning wheels called the Ring of Death.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, who took power in a 1976 coup and led a military junta that killed thousands of his fellow Argentines in a war to eliminate "subversives," died Friday while serving life sentences in prison for crimes against humanity.

LONDON (AP) — A clutch of blogs and Twitter accounts maintained by the Financial Times were hacked Friday, the latest in a series of cyberattacks claimed by the Syrian Electronic Army, a pro-government group which often attacks media organizations it sees as sympathetic to the country's rebels.

LONDON (AP) — George Michael's publicist says the singer is being treated for minor injuries after he was a passenger in a car crash.