Before attending a NATO summit, President Obama is heading to France and Germany to meet with the two leaders who gave him the most grief over his failed bid for more stimulus.
A judge has rejected Madonna's request to adopt a second child from Malawi because of a requirement that prospective parents live in the southern African nation for at least 18 months.
Reuters - The international community will take unspecified steps if North Korea goes ahead with a planned missile test to show Pyongyang it cannot act with impunity, U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday.
AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ridiculed the G-20 summit's attempts to deal with the global financial meltdown, saying that the "values of capitalism are in crisis" and capitalism "has to end."
AP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy says he and U.S. President Barack Obama will visit the beaches of Normandy in June to mark the anniversary of D-Day. Sarkozy announced the visit at a news conference after he and Obama spoke privately on the sidelines of a NATO gathering
AFP - South Korea expects North Korea to launch a rocket on Saturday if weather conditions permit, President Lee Myung-Bak said Friday, while warning the move was "not in their benefit".
AP - Traces of a chemical used in rocket fuel were found in samples of powdered baby formula, and could exceed what's considered a safe dose for adults if mixed with water also contaminated with the ingredient, a government study has found.
AP - Reclusive North Korea pressed ahead Friday with final preparations to blast a multistage rocket over Japan as world leaders scrambled to forge a united stance on how to punish Pyongyang for the launch.
On a wind-swept hill at the foot of snowcapped mountains, a ragtag force of farmers, students and other unemployed men snapped to attention, their guns slung across the shoulders, their new black boots shining.
AP - French police detained at least 300 demonstrators after riot police used tear gas and rubber bullets to quell violent clashes ahead of a two-day summit marking NATO's 60th anniversary.
AP - The United States donated 16,000 tons of rice to cyclone victims in Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta where a humanitarian crisis persists nearly a year after the disaster, the U.S.
AFP - US President Barack Obama was due in France on Friday to meet European leaders and drum up support for his new Afghan war strategy at the NATO alliance's 60th anniversary summit.
AP - President Barack Obama on Friday will present his new strategy for Afghanistan to NATO allies who are increasingly reluctant to commit more ground troops to the escalating war effort.
AFP - Royal Bank of Scotland chairman Philip Hampton said Friday that RBS will shed more jobs globally after already axing 2,700 roles in Britain this year, as it looks to recover from the financial crisis.
AP - The U.S. will sign a formal agreement Friday for a major new supply corridor into Afghanistan, moving to firm up alternate routes in the wake of increased convoy attacks and the loss of a base in Kyrgyszstan, defense officials said
Back in August, a volunteer firefighter was charged in connection with a string of fires just outside this former steel town — in what turned out to be a false cause for hope that the worst was over.
AP - A sweeping federal indictment charges former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (blah-GOY'-uh-vich) with scheming to auction off President Barack Obama's U.S. Senate seat, pressuring a congressman for campaign money and lying to FBI agents.
For some transplants to this quiet Plains city, last week's feverish rush to hold back a historic flood threat carried reminders of the chaos that forced them from their old lives.
AP - As North Korea fueled a multistage rocket Thursday for its threatened satellite launch, President Barack Obama promised a "stern" response and Japan vowed to press for an emergency session of the U.N.
AP - An heir to one of Mexico's most notorious narcotics empires was grabbed by police as he exercised in a city park, officials announced Thursday, shortly before U.S. and Mexican Cabinet officials met to coordinate attacks on escalating drug violence.
AP - It probably happens every day: A man pulls out a gun and tells a convenience store clerk to open the till. But the little girl in a pink jacket standing forlornly by the robber's side made this crime anything but ordinary.
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