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An advocacy group says patients at Kenya's only psychiatric hospital are often confined and immobilized using drugs that put them into a comatose-like state, factors that could have led to the recent escape of 40 male patients.
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- Zimbabwe activist: Prisoners denied Aids drugs
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A Zimbabwean human rights activist says he wants the nation's highest court to order prison authorities to ensure suspects in jail can receive their life-prolonging HIV/AIDS medications.
- Pakistan: US diplomat kills pedestrian in accident
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The U.S. Embassy says an American diplomat accidentally killed a pedestrian while driving in the Pakistani capital.
- Top Swiss negotiator in tax disputes steps down
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Switzerland's top negotiator in talks to resolve disputes over tax evasion with Europe and the U.S. is stepping down.
- Austria links UN peacekeepers to Syria arms ban
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Austria is urging an extension of the EU arms embargo for Syria, saying it may rethink its U.N. peacekeeping role in the region otherwise.
- EU approves better bee protection rules
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The European Union has approved restrictions on three pesticides to better protect dwindling bee populations, to enter into force by December.
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- US lauds India for reducing Iranian oil imports
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A senior American official on Friday praised India for reducing oil imports from Iran and said the U.S. government will decide soon on New Delhi's request to renew a waiver from sanctions on Tehran.
- Attack casts spotlight on radical preachers
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Two Muslim hardline preachers say that one of the suspects in the killing of a London soldier was interested in their teachings. And a British government official said one of the men tried to go to Somalia to train or fight with the terror group al-Shabab.
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- Abe on 1st trip to Myanmar by Japan PM in 36 years
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is traveling to Myanmar on the first visit to the country by a Japanese leader in 36 years, as Tokyo bids to reassert its position as a top economic partner after decades of frosty relations with the previous military regime.
- Berlusconi looms large in Rome mayor election
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Silvio Berlusconi's figure looms large over Rome's mayoral elections this weekend even though the former premier isn't among the 19 candidates running.
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- Foreign preacher takes rare turn on Vietnam stage
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The 25,000 people at the soccer stadium and the millions more watching at home waited 90 minutes before the Australian evangelical preacher got to the message he had come to Communist-ruled Vietnam to deliver.
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- Obama's drone speech welcomed in Pakistan, Yemen
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President Barack Obama's speech on the use of drones to kill Islamic militants was well-received in two countries most affected by the strikes _ Pakistan and Yemen _ but criticism of the U.S. policy remains strong.
- French president defends Mali war after attacks
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France's president says his country must fight harder against terrorists in Africa, after two suicide bombings apparently staged by extremists angry over the French military intervention in Mali.
- Emergency landing closes both Heathrow runways
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London's Heathrow Airport says both of its runways have been closed after a British Airways plane made an emergency landing.
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