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'Y & R' to memorialize soap star Jeanne Cooper

Fri, 05/10/2013 - 9:22am

NEW YORK (AP) — CBS says "The Young and the Restless" will broadcast a tribute to Jeanne Cooper, the veteran star of the daytime drama who died earlier this week. It is scheduled to air May 28.


Serena Williams squeaks into Madrid semifinals

Fri, 05/10/2013 - 9:20am

MADRID (AP) — Top-ranked Serena Williams outlasted Anabel Medina Garrigues 6-3, 0-6, 7-5 to reach the Madrid Open semifinals on Friday.


UCI appealing Spanish ruling to destroy blood bags

Fri, 05/10/2013 - 9:19am
AIGLE, Switzerland (AP) — Cycling's governing body says it will appeal the decision of a Madrid court to destroy the blood bags and other evidence from the Operation Puerto doping case.

Japan's Nikkei gains as dollar tops 100-yen

Fri, 05/10/2013 - 9:15am

LONDON (AP) — Japanese stocks enjoyed another big advance Friday after the dollar finally broke through the 100 yen mark following several failed attempts. Markets elsewhere lost some of their recent froth at the end of the week that's sent many indexes around the world up to all-time highs.


Hess to split roles of CEO and chairman

Fri, 05/10/2013 - 9:12am
NEW YORK (AP) — Hess Corp. will split the positions of CEO and chairman as it fights off a campaign by a major shareholder for a change in leadership at the New York energy company.

TowerBrook buying True Religion for about $826M

Fri, 05/10/2013 - 9:08am
VERNON, Calif. (AP) — True Religion Apparel has agreed to a buyout offer of about $826 million from the investment management firm TowerBrook Capital Partners LP.

Search ends for 2 Australians lost off cruise ship

Fri, 05/10/2013 - 9:06am
SYDNEY (AP) — Two Australians plunged off a cruise ship into the ocean despite higher-than-required railings to prevent accidental falls, the cruise company said Friday as authorities called off the search for the couple missing for two days.

Bernanke says Fed increasing financial monitoring

Fri, 05/10/2013 - 8:58am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve has broadened its oversight beyond banks and now monitors a wide-range of financial institutions that could hasten another financial crisis, Chairman Ben Bernanke said Friday.

Ex-yeshiva teacher faces sex assault charges in NJ

Fri, 05/10/2013 - 8:57am

TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) — The 12-year-old boy and his rabbi father were driving from the boy's therapist appointment to their Lakewood, N.J., home when the child decided to confide in his father.


Stocks waver in early trading on Wall Street

Fri, 05/10/2013 - 8:51am

NEW YORK (AP) — Stock indexes are little changed in early trading on Wall Street but the market is still on track to post solid gains for the week.


G-7 to discuss ways to 'nurture recovery'

Fri, 05/10/2013 - 8:43am

LONDON (AP) — Financial leaders from the world's top seven economies are gathering in the U.K. this weekend to discuss how to shore up the global recovery just as the stimulus policy of one its members, Japan, has caused its currency to extend its slide against the dollar.


Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood rallies against Israel

Fri, 05/10/2013 - 8:38am
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood staged an anti-Israel rally in Cairo on Friday, the first such protest by the main backers of President Mohammed Morsi since they rose to prominence in the wake of the country's 2011 uprising.

Seeking re-election, Imelda extends Marcos dynasty

Fri, 05/10/2013 - 8:36am

MARCOS, Philippines (AP) — Twenty-seven years after a public revolt ousted her dictator husband, Imelda Marcos is the Philippines' ultimate political survivor: She dazzled voters with her bouffant hairstyle, oversized jewelry and big talk on the campaign trial this week bidding to keep her seat in Congress.


3 suspected cases of SARS-related virus in France

Fri, 05/10/2013 - 7:06am
PARIS (AP) — French health officials said Friday they are investigating three suspected cases of a deadly new respiratory virus related to SARS, in people who had close contact in the hospital with France's only confirmed case.

Bangladesh workers find survivor in factory rubble

Fri, 05/10/2013 - 7:03am

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A woman buried in the wreckage of a collapsed garment factory building for 17 days was rescued Friday, a miraculous moment set against a scene of unimaginable horror where the death toll is more than 1,000 and still rising.


AP PHOTOS: Eerie ghost town comes up for air

Fri, 05/10/2013 - 7:02am

EPECUEN, Argentina (AP) — A strange ghost town that spent a quarter century under water is coming up for air again in the Argentine farmlands southwest of Buenos Aires.


Pescante endorses IOC presidential candidate Bach

Fri, 05/10/2013 - 7:00am

ROME (AP) — Longtime IOC member Mario Pescante of Italy has endorsed Thomas Bach's bid to become the next president of the Olympic body.


Radical cleric Abu Qatada to leave Britain voluntarily

Fri, 05/10/2013 - 6:57am

By Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) - Radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada will return to Jordan voluntarily when the Jordanian parliament ratifies a deal with Britain that ensures he will receive a fair trial, the cleric's lawyer told a London court on Friday. Abu Qatada's pledge is a victory for the British government after nearly eight years of unsuccessful attempts to deport the cleric, who is accused of spreading radical ideas that once inspired one of the September 11, 2001 hijackers. ...


1969 Hendrix telegram: Can Paul come to play?

Fri, 05/10/2013 - 6:57am

LONDON (AP) — Miles and Jimi. Jimi and Miles. Fans of the late trumpet and guitar masters have long known that Miles Davis and Jimi Hendrix had been making plans to record together in the year before Hendrix's sudden death in 1970.


Sea search ends for 2 Australian cruise passengers

Fri, 05/10/2013 - 6:57am
SYDNEY (AP) — The cruise ship from which an Australian couple fell into the ocean had higher railings than required to prevent accidental falls, the cruise company said Friday as authorities called off the intense search for the pair missing for two days.