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Quebec passes law in effort to end daily protests

May 18, 2012, 7:19 pm

Protesters make their way through the hall of a Montreal university to disrupt classes Wednesday, May 16, 2012 in Montreal. Carrying a list of scheduled classes, about 100 hard-core protesters marched through pavilions at the Universite du Quebec a Montreal. The student unrest has lasted 14 weeks. Only one-third of Quebec students are actually on declared strikes, but the conflict has created considerable social disorder. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Paul Chiasson)
MONTREAL - Quebec's provincial government passed an emergency law Friday restricting demonstrations and shutting some universities as the government seeks to end three months of protests against tuition hikes.
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Facebook stock closes nearly flat in debut

May 18, 2012, 5:36 pm

In this image provided by Facebook, Facebook founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, center, applauds at the opening bell of the Nasdaq stock market, Friday, May 18, 2012, from Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. The social media company priced its IPO on Thursday at $38 per share, and beginning Friday regular investors will have a chance to buy shares. (AP Photo/Nasdaq via Facebook, Zef Nikolla)
NEW YORK - It was barely a "like" and definitely not a "love" from Facebook investors as the online social network's stock failed to live up to the hype in its trading debut Friday.
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Chicago protesters break away from nurses' rally

May 18, 2012, 5:17 pm

Protesters block traffic on Michigan Ave., as they march through the city during a demonstration Friday, May 18, 2012, ahead of this weekends' NATO summit in Chicago. Thousands of nurses and other protesters gathered for the noisy but largely peaceful demonstration with a broad spectrum of causes, from anti-war activists to Occupy protesters to a Chicago WomenÂ’s AIDS project. The demonstrations Friday were the largest yet ahead of a two-day NATO summit that is expected to draw even larger protests. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
CHICAGO - Hundreds of protesters broke away from a large rally and began marching through Chicago streets Friday, taunting police and shouting about everything from bank bailouts to nuclear power - a prelude to even bigger demonstrations expected after the start of a NATO summit.
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France's Hollande sticking to early Afghan pullout

May 18, 2012, 3:44 pm

President Barack Obama meets with French President Francois Hollande, Friday, May 18, 2012, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
WASHINGTON - In his first visit to the Oval Office, French President Francois Hollande declared he will withdraw all French combat troops from Afghanistan by year's end, making clear to President Barack Obama the timeline for ending the US-led war will not trump a campaign pledge that helped Hollande gain his new job.
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Amid evidence cache in Martin case, questions nag

May 18, 2012, 3:19 pm

This Feb. 26, 2012 photo released by the State Attorney's Office shows a single bullet casing from the Kel-Tec PF-9 9mm handgun used by George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who shot Trayvon Martin. The photo and reports were among evidence released by prosecutors that also includes calls to police, video and numerous other documents. The package was received by defense lawyers earlier this week and released to the media on Thursday. (AP Photo/State Attorney's Office)
ORLANDO, Fla. - Prosecutors in the Trayvon Martin case dumped a mountain of evidence on the public this week. In many criminal cases, that would bring clarity, start answering the basic questions.
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Thousands of protesters gather for pre-NATO rally

May 18, 2012, 12:24 pm

Anti-war activists demonstrate outside President Barack Obama's campaign headquarters in downtown Chicago, on Thursday, May 17, 2012, protesting for an end to NATO operations in Afghanistan. President Barack Obama and 50 heads of state arrive for a NATO summit that takes place Sunday and Monday at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago along Lake Michigan.(AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
CHICAGO - Thousands of nurses and other protesters gathered Friday at a downtown Chicago plaza for a noisy but peaceful demonstration demanding a "Robin Hood" tax on banks' financial transactions, the largest protest yet ahead of a two-day NATO summit that is expected to draw even larger protests.
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French leader sticks to Afghan pullout timetable

May 18, 2012, 11:38 am

President Barack Obama shakes hands with French President Francois Hollande, Friday, May 18, 2012, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
WASHINGTON - French President Francois Hollande said Friday he would carry out his pledge to withdraw combat forces from Afghanistan by year's end, two years earlier than the US ally once planned.
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Jury begins deliberations in John Edwards case

May 18, 2012, 8:15 am

Former presidential candidate and Sen. John Edwards arrives at a federal courthouse in Greensboro, N.C., Thursday, May 17, 2012. Edwards has pleaded not guilty to six counts related to campaign finance violations over nearly $1 million from two wealthy donors used to help hide the Democrat's pregnant mistress as he sought the White House in 2008. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
GREENSBORO, N.C. - A jury started weighing Friday morning whether John Edwards committed a crime when money from two wealthy donors was used to hide his pregnant mistress during the candidate's run for the 2008 White House.
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FACEBOOK IPO LIVE: The social network goes public

May 18, 2012, 6:58 am

Electronic screens inside the Nasdaq stock market announce the listing of Facebook shares before the start of trading, Friday, May 18, 2012 in New York. The world's definitive online social network raised $16 billion in an initial public offering that values the company at $104 billion. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
It's Facebook's big day.

The site, which was born in a dorm room eight years ago and has grown into a worldwide network of almost a billion people, is making the most talked-about stock market debut in years.
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Evidence mixed for Zimmerman's self-defense claim

May 18, 2012, 5:39 am

This combo made from Feb. 27, 2012 photos released by the State Attorney's Office shows George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who shot Trayvon Martin. The photo and reports were among evidence released by prosecutors that also includes calls to police, video and numerous other documents. The package was received by defense lawyers earlier this week and released to the media on Thursday, May 17, 2012. (AP Photo/State Attorney's Office)
ORLANDO, Fla. - When George Zimmerman tries to convince a judge or jury that he shot Trayvon Martin in self-defense, the evidence he'll be able to call on appears to be a mixed bag.
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Obama to tout $3B pledge for food security

May 18, 2012, 4:15 am

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is set to announce $3 billion in private sector pledges aimed at alleviating hunger in Africa and urge the world's biggest economies to make good on their own financial promises.
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Early political spats suggest nothing off-limits

May 18, 2012, 1:38 am

FILE - In this May 11, 2012, file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign stop at Charlotte Pipe and Foundry Company in Charlotte, N.C. The early border skirmishes of Campaign 2012 are reviving questions about one candidate's former pastor and shining a spotlight on the other's high school hijinks. Can a fresh round of questions about President Barack Obama's birth certificate be far behind? (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
WASHINGTON - The early border skirmishes of Campaign 2012 are reviving questions about one candidate's former pastor and shining a spotlight on the other's high school hijinks.
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French leader faces likely NATO ire on Afghanistan

May 18, 2012, 1:36 am

French President Francois Hollande, right, chairs his first cabinet meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Thursday, May 17, 2012. Second right is Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, Social Affairs minister Marisol Touraine, and Minister for Productive Recovery Arnaud Montebourg, left. (AP Photo/Regis Duvignau/Pool)
WASHINGTON - For President Barack Obama's relationship with France, it's out with "Sarkozy the American" and in with Francois Hollande the Socialist.

Freshly inaugurated, French President Hollande visits the White House on Friday and plans to announce a pullout of all French combat troops from Afghanistan by year's end.
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Global leaders seek to corral Europe crisis

May 18, 2012, 12:29 am

Tourist pose for photographers with Oxfam activist wearing masks depicting G8 world leaders during a demonstration outside the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 17, 2012. President Barack Obama will welcome G8 leaders to his presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
WASHINGTON - The leaders of eight of the world's biggest economies meet this weekend outside Washington, seeking to keep Europe's debt crisis from spiraling out of control and jeopardizing fledgling recoveries in the US and elsewhere.
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Documents shed new light on Trayvon Martin killing

May 17, 2012, 6:46 pm

This Feb. 27, 2012 photo released by the State Attorney's Office shows George Zimmerman, the neighborhood†watch volunteer who shot Trayvon Martin, with blood on the back of his head. The photo and reports were among evidence released by prosecutors that also includes calls to police, video and numerous other documents. The package was received by defense lawyers earlier this week and released to the media on Thursday, May 17, 2012. (AP Photo/State Attorney's Office)
ORLANDO, Fla. - Trayvon Martin had marijuana in his system. He was shot through the heart at close range. George Zimmerman had a broken nose, bruises and bloody cuts on the back of his head.
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