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  • Danish philosopher's tough ideas adapted for kids

    COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- Danish philosopher Soeren Kierkegaard's work is so dense that he himself lamented: "People understand me so little that they do not even understand when I complain of being misunderstood." So it's something of a surprise that a Danish director has turned his most famous book into a musical for schoolchildren. (   05/04/2013 2:37 AM )

  • Notre Dame's new pipe organ bears history's weight

    PARIS (AP) -- From the moment the teenage musician caught sight of the organ in France's most famous cathedral, he knew where he wanted to play. In the five decades since, Philippe Lefebvre has traveled the world to play what he describes as an "orchestra of one," but the organ master returns to the loft above Notre Dame and is never disappointed. (   05/04/2013 2:25 AM )

  • Catholic bishops condemn Irish abortion bill

    DUBLIN -- Ireland's Roman Catholic leaders appealed to the public Friday to lobby their lawmakers to reject a bill that would permit abortions deemed necessary to save the life of the pregnant woman, a measure long ordered by Irish and European courts. In a joint statement, Ireland's bishops, archbishops, and lone cardinal described the bill, unveiled this week after decades of debate, as ''a dramatic and morally unacceptable change to Irish law.'' They argued it would be most grievously wrong to give any woman an abortion to assuage her threats to commit suicide, as the bill allows. ''It is a tragic moment for Irish society when we regard the deliberate destruction of a completely innocent person as an acceptable response to the threat of the preventable death of another person,'' the bishops wrote.(   05/04/2013 12:00 AM )

  • Cameron's Conservatives suffer in UK local votes

    LONDON (AP) -- David Cameron's Conservatives took a drubbing in local elections amid a surge of support for an anti-European Union and anti-immigration party, heaping pressure on the British prime minister to appeal to the dissident right-wing of his own party. (   05/03/2013 5:21 PM )

  • Britain holding off on media regulation plans

    LONDON (AP) -- British officials are holding off on plans for a state-backed media watchdog, the first sign that opposition from the newspaper industry is slowing down efforts to more closely regulate the country's scandal-tainted press. (   05/03/2013 5:15 PM )

  • Bailed-out Portugal plans another $6.3B in cuts

    LISBON, Portugal (AP) -- Portugal plans to avoid the threat of needing another bailout by making another 4.8 billion euros ($6.3 billion) in cuts over the next three years, with measures including raising the retirement age by one year to 66 and laying off around 30,000 government workers, the prime minister said Friday. (   05/03/2013 4:56 PM )

  • Japan vows 'high safety' for Turkish reactor

    ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Japan has learned from the Fukushima disaster and will offer technology with the highest safety standards while building Turkey's second nuclear plant, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Friday. (   05/03/2013 1:40 PM )

  • Afghan interpreters launch UK legal bid

    LONDON (AP) -- Three Afghan interpreters who worked with British troops launched a legal bid on Friday challenging the U.K. government's decision not to give them the same assistance awarded to Iraqi interpreters, which their lawyers said is dangerous and discriminatory. (   05/03/2013 1:32 PM )

  • Nations at nuclear meeting say too many on alert

    GENEVA (AP) -- More than 100 nations concluding a round of global nuclear talks Friday expressed alarm that many nuclear weapons are kept at a high-alert level and are still being modernized, despite a promise to get rid of them. (   05/03/2013 1:18 PM )

  • First black Italian minister seeks cultural change

    ROME (AP) -- Italy's first black Cabinet minister, targeted by racist slurs following her appointment last week, said Friday that Italians aren't racist but that some are merely ignorant of other cultures and the "richness" that immigration can bring. (   05/03/2013 1:08 PM )

  • Catholic bishops condemn Irish abortion bill

    DUBLIN (AP) -- Ireland's Roman Catholic leaders appealed to the public Friday to lobby their lawmakers to reject a bill that would permit abortions deemed necessary to save the life of the pregnant woman, a measure long ordered by Irish and European courts. (   05/03/2013 11:37 AM )

  • Danes, Finns upgrade Palestinian diplomatic status

    STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Finland and Denmark have become the latest European countries to upgrade the status of Palestinian diplomatic missions. (   05/03/2013 11:20 AM )

  • EU predicts eurozone recession to continue in 2013

    BRUSSELS (AP) -- Europe will take longer to recover from its economic crisis as it tackles a worse-than-expected recession in the eurozone and unemployment at record levels, the European Union warned Friday. (   05/03/2013 10:33 AM )

  • Correction: Italy's Race Problem story

    ROME (AP) -- In a May 1 story about racism in Italy, datelined Rome, The Associated Press incorrectly reported that a current French minister is from the French region of Guyana. The minister is from French Guiana, an overseas region of France in South America. Guyana is a separate country in South America. (   05/03/2013 10:04 AM )

  • Man acquitted of Real IRA murder of 2 UK soldiers

    DUBLIN (AP) -- A man suspected of involvement in the Real IRA faction's killing of two British soldiers in Northern Ireland in 2009 has been acquitted of murder charges after a judge dismissed the forensic evidence and ruled he was too feeble to have played a role. (   05/03/2013 9:52 AM )

  • German neo-Nazi trial sparks fear of hidden racism

    BERLIN (AP) -- Most of the victims were immigrants and their deaths at first failed to make headlines. Police were quick to blame the slayings on foreign gangs with links to gambling and drugs. (   05/03/2013 9:34 AM )

  • Poll shows fall in Spanish monarchy's popularity

    MADRID (AP) -- A government agency poll indicates the Spanish monarchy's popularity rating has plunged to unprecedented levels. (   05/03/2013 8:40 AM )

  • Police identify man whose body found in chimney

    LONDON (AP) -- An English coroner is being asked to decide why a man was in the chimney of a law firm where he was found dead. (   05/03/2013 8:08 AM )

  • Cameras in planes show Italy thieves

    ROME (AP) -- Italian police have arrested 29 airport baggage handlers accused of stealing cameras, cellphones and other loot from passengers' luggage, a bust made possible after hidden cameras were installed in airplane cargo holds where the thefts occurred. (   05/03/2013 7:59 AM )

  • Brooks's ex-bodyguard charged in UK hacking probe

    LONDON (AP) -- A man who provided protection for the former chief executive of News International has been charged in relation to Britain's wide-ranging phone-hacking investigation, British authorities said Friday. (   05/03/2013 7:38 AM )

  • RBS says gov't stake could be sold within year

    LONDON (AP) -- Royal Bank of Scotland predicted Friday that the government should be able to start selling its stake within a year, as it reported a first-quarter profit of 393 million pounds ($611 million), up from a loss of 1.5 billion a year earlier. (   05/03/2013 7:00 AM )

  • Air France-KLM losses mount in Q1

    PARIS (AP) -- Air France-KLM said Friday its losses mounted sharply in the first quarter compared to a year earlier, when earnings were boosted by a gain in the value of oil price hedging contracts the airline uses to manage its fuel costs. (   05/03/2013 6:36 AM )

  • Kyrgyzstan's emergencies ministry says a US military plane has crashed in the country

    BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (AP) -- Kyrgyzstan's emergencies ministry says a US military plane has crashed in the country. (   05/03/2013 6:28 AM )

  • BNP Paribas sees Q1 earnings tumble

    PARIS (AP) -- French bank BNP Paribas said Friday its earnings slumped 45 percent in the first quarter amid a steep drop in corporate and investment banking as Europe's economic stagnation continued to bite. (   05/03/2013 6:10 AM )

  • Belgian mystery: Who is hiding the stolen money?

    ZEDELGEM, Belgium (AP) -- On a Saturday evening two weeks ago in Zedelgem, townsfolk were disturbed by the wail of a siren and the shriek of tires, the din of a high-speed car chase that broke the tranquility of their sleepy city. (   05/03/2013 2:54 AM )