| Obama 'seeks a new beginning' with Cuba, direct talks (AP) Posted: 17 Apr 2009 05:23 PM PDT  AP - Trading their warmest words in a half-century, the United States and Cuba built momentum toward renewed ties on Friday, with President Barack Obama declaring he "seeks a new beginning" including direct talks with the island's communist regime. As leaders of the Americas gathered for a summit in this Caribbean nation, the head of the Organization of American States even said he'll ask his group to invite Cuba back after 47 years.
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| Navies ask: What do you do with a captured pirate? (AP) Posted: 17 Apr 2009 01:54 PM PDT  AP - The scrawny teenage pirate stormed the Maersk Alabama hoping for a share of a $3 million ransom. He was attacked by its sailors, stabbed in the hand and tied up, and later arrested by the U.S. Navy.
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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.
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| 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.
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| Activists paint graffiti letter on West Bank wall (AP) Posted: 17 Apr 2009 12:35 PM PDT  AP - Palestinian activists climbed wooden ladders leaning against Israeli's West Bank separation barrier Friday and carefully spraypainted in English "My dear Palestinian brothers" the first words of what they say will turn into a letter stretching over 1.6 miles long.
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| 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.
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| US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,274 (AP) Posted: 17 Apr 2009 05:18 PM PDT  AP - As of Friday, April 17, 2009, at least 4,274 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
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| Cuban media covers Castro's comments, not Obama's (AP) Posted: 17 Apr 2009 05:40 PM PDT AP - Raul Castro's offer to talk with Washington about anything even such sticky subjects as human rights, press freedom and political prisoners was big news in Cuba on Friday. |
| Mugabe says no farm invasions in Zimbabwe (AFP) Posted: 17 Apr 2009 03:37 PM PDT  AFP - President Robert Mugabe on Friday denied that farm invasions were taking place in Zimbabwe but vowed to continue land reforms, as the country's unity government launched a probe into fresh grabs.
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| US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 606 (AP) Posted: 17 Apr 2009 05:27 PM PDT  AP - As of Friday, April 15, 2009, at least 606 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Wednesday at 10 a.m. EDT.
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| Australia says arsonists could face 25 years in jail (AFP) Posted: 17 Apr 2009 03:12 AM PDT  AFP - Australia on Friday revealed plans to introduce national arson laws with a maximum penalty of 25 years behind bars in the wake of deadly wildfires that claimed 173 lives.
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