Posted: 9:15 AM The family lawyer of Oscar Pistorius says the brother of the Olympic paraplegic athlete is facing culpable homicide charge in a 2010 road death.

Updated: 5:48 PM A senator just back from Cuba says it will require "give and take on both sides" and "quiet negotiation" to secure the release of an American man imprisoned in Cuba.

Updated: 8:52 AM Pope Benedict has bestowed his final Sunday blessing of his pontificate from his studio window overlooking St. Peter's Square.

Posted: 2:17 PM Hundreds of government opponents in Venezuela have held a demonstration demanding answers about President Hugo Chavez's condition while he remains out of sight in a hospital.

Updated: 9:58 AM Thousands of people are marching on Spain's parliament to protest austerity measures imposed by the government.

Posted: 3:07 PM No other European government has pinpointed a single slaughterhouse that was mislabeling horse meat as beef.

Posted: 3:05 PM The attack Wednesday on Syria's ruling party headquarters and two other bombs that struck intelligence offices left at least 75 dead.

Posted: 3:03 PM The 76-year-old media mogul is trying to make a comeback, to win a fourth term as premier.

Posted: 3:00 PM The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano said in its late Friday editions that Benedict had signed a decree earlier in the week making changes to the papal installation Mass, separating out the actual rite of installation from the liturgy itself.

Updated: 4:10 PM A court in Santa Cruz on the Canary island of Tenerife found that Deyan Valentinov, a 20-year-old homeless Bulgarian man, had committed the act of murder but was not criminally responsible for his actions because he has acute paranoid schizophrenia.

Updated: 4:10 PM Cardinal Keith O'Brien, who heads the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland, says the requirement for priestly celibacy is "not of divine origin" and could be reconsidered.

Posted: 2:45 PM Castrol told reporters he's about to turn 82 years old and added, "I have the right to retire, don't you think?"

Posted: 2:41 PM Several former Iranian diplomats who defected to the West have sought asylum in Norway.

Posted: 2:39 PM German Defense Minister Thomas de Maiziere issued a statement saying his comments were "misleading."

Posted: 2:36 PM In 3,000 pages of emails and interviews published Friday, the BBC's top officials have harsh words for the institutional culture of their respected media group, whose reputation has been tarnished by a pedophilia scandal.

Posted: 2:29 PM Iran and the members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany are scheduled to have another round of talks next week in Kazakhstan to discuss Tehran's nuclear ambitions.

Posted: 6:47 AM Palestinians rallying in support of four hunger striking prisoners have clashed with Israeli forces in the West Bank and at a holy site in Jerusalem.

Updated: 10:49 AM Oscar Pistorius has been granted bail and will be freed from custody pending his trial in the Valentine's Day shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

Updated: 8:36 AM South Africa's police head has appointed its top detective as the new lead investigator in the Oscar Pistorius murder case.

Posted: 6:15 AM German bishops have agreed that Roman Catholic-run hospitals should be allowed to prescribe the morning-after pill to rape victims to prevent conception.

Updated: 8:35 AM Three young British Muslims have been convicted of plotting terrorist bomb attacks that prosecutors said were intended to be bigger than the 2005 London transit bombings.

Posted: 5:54 AM An Iranian newspaper says at least 500 Porsche cars have been imported by way of a Persian Gulf island that is also claimed by the United Arab Emirates.

Posted: 5:47 AM An opposition group says 18 people have been killed kill in a government airstrike on a rebel field hospital in the southern city of Daraa, where Syria's uprising began nearly two years ago.

Updated: 7:40 AM PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) - Police say they found two boxes of testosterone and needles in the bedroom of Oscar Pistorius, the Olympian who has been charged with murder in the shooting of his girlfriend.

Updated: 3:31 PM LONDON (AP) - A British jury has been dismissed after failing to reach a verdict in the trial of Vicky Pryce, the ex-wife of a former U.K. cabinet minister who resigned after lying for years about a speeding ticket.