By GREGORY KATZ   Associated Press   5/22/2012 12:31 AM   

Robin Gibb Member of the Bee Gees LONDON (AP) SEmD With his carefully tended hair, tight trousers and perfect harmonies, Robin Gibb, along with his brothers Maurice and Barry, defined the disco era. As part of the Bee Gees - short for the Brother ...

By JAKE COYLE   Associated Press   5/22/2012 12:31 AM   

CANNES, France -- Roman Polanski returned to the Cannes Film Festival, where he presented a short film sponsored by Prada. Before a screening of a restored version of his 1979 film "Tess," starring Nastassja Kinski, the Polish director showed the ...

Associated Press     5/22/2012 12:31 AM   

LONDON -- Her sons were blessed with musical gifts that brought riches and fame. On Monday Barbara Gibb was living a parent's ultimate nightmare - preparing, for the third time, to lay a child to rest. Her son Robin Gibb - a Bee Gees founder known ...

Associated Press     5/22/2012 12:02 AM   

SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- A Yemeni soldier detonated a bomb hidden in his military uniform during a rehearsal for a military parade, killing 96 fellow soldiers and wounding at least 200 on Monday in one of the deadliest attacks in the capital in years. ...

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ   Associated Press   5/22/2012 12:02 AM   

HAVANA (AP) -- It was all sunshine, smiles and celebratory speeches as officials marked the arrival of an undersea fiber-optic cable they promised would end Cuba's Internet isolation and boost web capacity 3,000-fold. Even a retired Fidel Castro had ...

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA   Associated Press   5/21/2012 10:23 AM   

KATMANDU, Nepal -- Three climbers who scaled Mount Everest died on their descent and two went missing during a crowded weekend on the Himalayan peak, raising concerns Monday about congested trails and poor conditions near the summit. An estimated 1 ...

By JAKE COYLE   Associated Press   5/18/2012 10:47 AM   

CANNES, France -- In Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom," the famously meticulous director takes his fastidiously fashioned world and flings it into the woods. Even a relatively loose Anderson film is more ornately composed than most dollhouses, so n ...

By MARIA CHENG   Associated Press   5/18/2012 10:41 AM   

LONDON -- In most developed countries, children with autism are usually sent to school where they get special education classes. But in France, they are more often sent to a psychiatrist where they get talk therapy meant for people with psychological ...

By THANYARAT DOKSONE   Associated Press   5/18/2012 10:41 AM   

BANGKOK -- Just two years ago, Thailand was at war with itself. Rifle shots and exploding grenades rang out in Bangkok as troops crushed through barricades to disperse a nine-week-old insurrection. A retired nurse was the last to capitulate. "I sto ...

By SEBASTIAN ABBOT   Associated Press   5/18/2012 12:32 AM   

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan's president announced Thursday that he will attend the upcoming NATO summit in Chicago, accepting an invitation that was given after the country indicated it plans to end its six-month blockade of supplies meant for coalition tr ...

By AMY TEIBEL   Associated Press   5/18/2012 12:32 AM   

JERUSALEM SEmD The U.S. has plans in place to attack Iran if necessary to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons, Washington's envoy to Israel said, days ahead of a crucial round of nuclear talks with Tehran. Dan Shapiro's message resonated Thu ...

By SARAH EL DEEB   Associated Press   5/18/2012 12:31 AM   

CAIRO (AP) SEmD Egypt's vice police on Thursday arrested the owner of a belly dancing TV station on suspicion of operating without a license, inciting licentiousness and facilitating prostitution, a security official said. The station, ElTet, broad ...

  Associated Presss   5/17/2012 11:46 AM   

WINDSOR, Ontario -- Police in the Canadian province of Ontario say they are holding a man who is accused of swallowing a $20,000 diamond as long as it takes for him to produce the evidence. It has been nearly a week since Richard Mackenzie Matthew ...

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ   Associated Press   5/17/2012 11:46 AM   

HAVANA -- The daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro has been granted a U.S. visa to attend an academic conference in San Francisco and another event, one of her associates confirmed Thursday. The decision has already drawn fire from Cuban-American ...

By FREDDY CUEVAS and MARTHA MENDOZA   Associated Press   5/17/2012 11:43 AM   

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- People in Honduras' predominantly Indian Mosquito coast region burned down government offices and demanded that U.S. drug agents leave the area, reacting angrily to an anti-drug operation in which they say police gunfire kill ...

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV   Associated Press   5/17/2012 12:32 AM   

MOSCOW -- Russian police arrested about 20 protesters on Wednesday night at a central Moscow square where demonstrators had moved after police uprooted them from a camp, the latest move in a broadening crackdown on the forces opposing President Vladi ...

JOHN HEILPRIN   Associated Press   5/16/2012 11:14 AM   

GENEVA -- A quarter of those 25 or older now have high blood pressure worldwide, and almost one in 10 has worrying levels of glucose in their blood. The World Health Organization's tally of the latest global health statistics for the first time inclu ...

By SARAH EL DEEB   Associated Press   5/16/2012 12:33 AM   

CAIRO -- An Egyptian rights group released Tuesday the most comprehensive list to date of the more than 800 civilians killed by security forces in last year's uprising that overthrew Hosni Mubarak last year. The report by the Arab Network for Human ...

By ABDI GULED and SLOBODAN LEKIC   Associated Press   5/16/2012 12:32 AM   

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) SEmD European Union naval forces in attack helicopters on Tuesday conducted their first onshore raid on a suspected pirate lair in Somalia. A pirate said the strike destroyed a supply center and set back operations. No death ...

By SEBASTIAN ABBOT   Associated Press   5/15/2012 12:32 AM   

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan's foreign minister suggested Monday that the country should reopen its Afghan border to NATO troop supplies, saying the government has made its point by closing the route for nearly six months in retaliation for U.S. airstrikes ...