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Vatican decries reaction to pope's condom remarks (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 04:11 PM PDT

AP - Critics of the Catholic Church's social teachings are trying to intimidate Pope Benedict XVI into silence, the Vatican charged Friday in responding to attacks on the pontiff's remarks about AIDS and condom use.

Court convicts Tamil in new blow for rebels (AFP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 02:13 PM PDT

AFP - A British Tamil leader was convicted Friday of supplying bomb-making equipment to the Tamil Tigers, in a new blow for the rebels battling Sri Lankan troops trying to end a three-decade-long civil war.

Attorney: man killed in G-20 riots by hemorrhage (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 02:02 PM PDT

AP - An attorney representing the family of a man who died during the riots before Group of 20 summit said Friday he suffered from an abdominal hemorrhage not a heart attack, as was first thought.

London cop questioned over G20 protest death (AFP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 01:32 PM PDT

AFP - A London policeman has been questioned on suspicion of manslaughter over a man's death at G20 summit protests this month, after it was found he died of a haemorrhage and not a heart attack, officials said Friday.

European automakers tout diesel's fuel-sipping zip (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 01:12 PM PDT

AP - With diesel prices down and drivers increasingly focused on getting the most out of every drop of fuel, some European automakers think the U.S. market may finally be ready to embrace diesel cars.

Stockholm court jails The Pirate Bay founders for a year (AFP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 12:58 PM PDT

AFP - A Swedish court found four men guilty Friday of promoting copyright infringement by running The Pirate Bay, one of the world's top illegal filesharing websites, sentencing them to a year in prison in a landmark ruling.

British spy agency searches for `Q' (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 12:51 PM PDT

AP - He was James Bond's go-to guy for inventions that included dagger-embedded shoes, radioactive lint and a deadly sofa that swallowed people.

Cockerill confirmed as Leicester coach (AFP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 12:45 PM PDT

AFP - English Premiership side Leicester Tigers confirmed on Friday that former player Richard Cockerill has been given the role of head coach on a permanent basis.

Hitler-signed watercolors to be auctioned (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 12:41 PM PDT

AP - A pair of watercolor paintings depicting farm scenes and signed "Adolf Hitler" are up for auction in the German city of Nuremberg this month.

Uncertainty surrounds death in French piracy raid (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 12:31 PM PDT

AP - Three Somali pirates who survived a French commando assault to free a sailboat were charged Friday with hijacking the vessel and holding five passengers hostage, one of whom died in the raid, the prosecutor's office said.

Italy outraged by crumbling of hospital in quake (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 12:28 PM PDT

AP - The hospital of San Salvatore should have been a sanctuary for the injured when this central Italian city and its surroundings were struck by an earthquake.

Overnight star says she's handling attention (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 11:25 AM PDT

AP - Singing sensation Susan Boyle said Friday that she's untroubled by people drawing contrasts between her angelic voice and dowdy image after she was thrust into the international spotlight.

UN anti-racism conference could spark high tension (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 11:16 AM PDT

AP - Concerns are high that next week's United Nations anti-racism conference may descend into contentious debate over Israel that marred the last such gathering eight years ago.

Toyota workers block production at French plant (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 10:41 AM PDT

AP - A court on Friday convicted 9 workers at Caterpillar France of hampering the freedom to work and 11 others of illegally occupying company grounds, and ordered them all fined euro200 ($265) each time they repeat such actions to protest layoffs.

Spain: No torture probe of US officials (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 09:33 AM PDT

AP - Spain should not investigate allegations that six senior Bush administration officials gave legal cover for the torture of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Spanish prosecutors formally recommended Friday.

Belfast remembers Blitz victims of 1941 (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 07:49 AM PDT

AP - Nearly 70 years after Belfast was bombed in World War II, the city has its first memorial to nearly a thousand people who died in the Blitz.

Ex-US Sec State urges Republicans to back test ban (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 07:38 AM PDT

AP - His fellow U.S. Republicans may have been right to vote down the nuclear test-ban treaty a decade ago, but they'd be wrong to scuttle it again as President Barack Obama pushes for Senate ratification, former Secretary of State George P. Shultz said Friday.

Hollywood scores win over Pirate Bay, 4 convicted (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 07:31 AM PDT

AP - The entertainment industry won round one Friday in a legal battle against file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay, with guilty verdicts and one-year prison sentences handed down to four men accused of running and financing the popular site.

Russian president slams NATO exercises in Georgia (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 06:17 AM PDT

AP - Russia's president on Friday denounced NATO's plan to hold military exercises in Georgia, calling it a dangerous move that could threaten efforts to improve relations between Moscow and the Western alliance.

Nations look to Kenya as venue for piracy trials (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 05:21 AM PDT

AP - Dutch prosecutors are dusting off the oldest international felony in their country's books to tackle the 21st-century wave of piracy.