Posted: 5:28 PM A private company is on the verge of launching another cargo ship to the International Space Station.

Posted: 3:06 PM State police say 23 people were hurt when a bus overturned on an interstate exit ramp in northern New Jersey.

Updated: 2:56 PM Tunisian authorities say 49 policemen were injured when protesters clashed with security forces over the reopening of a trash dump on the island of Djerba.

Updated: 2:49 PM It's been a fourth straight day of artillery fire between Syria and Turkey, in the aftermath of Wednesday's shelling that killed five civilians in a Turkish border town.

Posted: 4:59 PM It appears a mold and rat problem at Guantanamo won't delay planned legal proceedings in a terrorism case.

Posted: 11:05 AM Turkey's state-run news agency says Turkish troops have returned fire after a mortar shell from Syria again landed on its territory.

Updated: 10:39 AM Riot police in Bahrain used water cannons and tear gas on Friday to disperse hundreds of anti-government protesters trying to reach a heavily guarded site that was once the hub of their uprising.

Posted: 9:30 AM A Canadian woman nicknamed the "Black Widow" for her ability to persuade grieving widowers to marry her is accused of trying to kill her husband.

Posted: 8:30 AM A Mexican law-enforcement official says federal police have arrested two men who may be connected with the fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent this week just north of the Mexico/Arizona border.

Posted: 8:29 AM The price of oil is higher after tensions rose between Syria and Turkey.

Posted: 9:53 AM South Africa's inquiry into violence that killed at least 44 people at Lonmin's Marikana mine is postponed until the end of October.

Posted: 9:43 AM The United Nations says four Nigerian peacekeepers were killed and eight wounded in an ambush in Sudan's restive West Darfur region.

Posted: 5:12 PM A member of a leading human rights organization has been beaten and arrested in a southern Algerian city.

Posted: 5:09 PM Two corrections officers at American Samoa's only jail are suspected of letting inmates leave to go on beer and food runs.

Posted: 5:07 PM Pope Benedict XVI's onetime butler declared Tuesday he was innocent of a charge of aggravated theft of the pope's private correspondence, but acknowledged he photocopied the papers

Updated: 5:43 PM Smoked salmon tainted with salmonella has sickened hundreds of people in the Netherlands, authorities said, sparking major recalls there and in the U.S.

Updated: 5:45 PM A senior U.S. official says there is strong circumstantial evidence that Mexican federal police who fired on a U.S. embassy vehicle, wounding two CIA agents, were working for organized crime on a targeted assassination attempt.

Updated: 5:29 AM Hong Kong's deadlist accident in more than a decade leaves 37 people dead and six crew members arrested.

Posted: 1:11 PM A chartered boat packed with revelers during a holiday weekend collided with a ferry and sank Monday night off Hong Kong, killing at least eight people and injuring dozens more, authorities said.

Posted: 9:05 AM A former Pakistani legislator has offered a $200,000 bounty for anyone who kills the maker of an anti-Islam film that has angered Muslims around the world.

Posted: 8:49 AM International hotel developers are planning nearly 40,000 new rooms across Africa in the coming years.

Posted: 8:44 AM A Russian official says Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg is being encouraged to expand its operation in Russia.

Posted: 8:39 AM Britain's forensics watchdog says an innocent man spent months in jail on a rape charge because of a DNA technician's "avoidable" mistake.

Updated: 5:34 PM The European Space Agency says its cargo craft has successfully undocked from the International Space Station after a failed separation caused by communication problems earlier in the week.

Updated: 3:10 PM NATO hasn't said whether it considers the incident an "insider" attack, but a firefight between U.S. forces and their Afghan army allies in eastern Afghanistan has left two Americans and three Afghan soldiers dead.