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 Ex-Rutgers student gets 30 days for webcam spying A former Rutgers University student who attracted the scorn of gay-rights advocates and was convicted of hate crimes for using a webcam to view seconds of his roommate and another man kissing days before the roommate killed himself will go to jail for 30 days.
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 Yemen suicide bombing kills 96 at army parade A suicide bomber has killed 96 people and wounded at least 200 at a military parade rehearsal in Yemen's capital, according to the country's ministry of defence.
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 Chicago braces for final day of NATO protests Demonstrators are preparing to launch another day of major protests in Chicago as world leaders meet at a heavily guarded NATO summit.
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 Quake-struck Italians fear return to homes Residents of a quake-struck area of northeast Italy have spent the night in their cars, tents and in school gyms in fear of aftershocks after a magnitude 6.0 earthquake killed seven people.
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 Secular or Islamist? Egypt's see-sawing presidential race Little about Wednesday's presidential election in Egypt is predictable because of personal rivalries among the leading Islamist parties and the overarching question of whether the generals will really cede power, Sasa Petricic writes.
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 Afghanistan mission won't be extended, MacKay says The remaining Canadian Forces in Afghanistan will come home in 2014 as planned, Defence Minister Peter MacKay says, depite entreaties from NATO to extend their mission as trainers.
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 Italian police puzzled by school bomb attack Investigators in Italy still had no firm clue of who was behind a bomb attack at a school, which killed one 16-year-old student, a day after a device made up of gas cylinders exploded outside a mainly all-girls vocational school in Brindisi.
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 Lockerbie bomber dies The former Libyan intelligence officer convicted of the 1988 bombing of a passenger jet over Lockerbie, Scotland, has died from cancer at his home at age 60.
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 Tropical storm Alberto is first of hurricane season Tropical storm Alberto churned off South Carolina's coastline Sunday, the first storm of its kind to form in a hurricane season that doesn't officially begin until June 1, forecasters said.
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 Italy earthquake kills at least 4 One of the strongest earthquakes to shake northern Italy rattled the region around Bologna early Sunday, a magnitude-6.0 temblor that killed at least four people, toppled buildings and sent residents running into the streets, emergency services and news reports said.
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 Afghanistan to get centre-stage at NATO summit The mission in Afghanistan is expected to be centre-stage when leaders from 60 countries gather to meet at the NATO Summit in Chicago starting on Sunday.
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 Baird not prepared to extend Afghan mission 'at this time' NATO has asked for Canadian troops to stay in Afghanistan past the end of their training mission in 2014, but Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird tells CBC he isn't "prepared to commit to any more than that."
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 Mexican priest to leave country after death threats A Roman Catholic priest who is one of the Mexico's most outspoken advocates for migrant rights is leaving his country after receiving death threats.
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 Italy bomb blast at school kills teen A bomb exploded Saturday outside an Italian high school named after a slain anti-Mafia prosecutor, killing a teenage girl and wounding several other classmates, officials said.
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 Italy bomb blast outside school kills 1 A bomb has exploded outside a high school in southern Italy named after a slain anti-Mafia prosecutor as students arrived for class, killing a teenage girl and wounding several other classmates, officials said.
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 G8 leaders to discuss Afghanistan, European crisis G8 leaders are set to delve into the future of Afghanistan and Europe's fiscal woes Saturday at a storied presidential retreat during what's been dubbed the Camp David summit.
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 Blind Chinese activist leaves for U.S. A blind Chinese activist was hurriedly taken from a hospital Saturday and boarded a plane that took off for the United States, closing a nearly month-long diplomatic tussle that had tested U.S.-China relations.
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 Karlheinz Schreiber prison release upheld The release of German-Canadian former arms lobbyist Karlheinz Schreiber from a Munich prison has been confirmed by a German court, according to a media report.
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 Is Canada ready for King Charles? Opinion polls suggest more Canadians would rather the crown pass directly from Queen Elizabeth to Prince William than to his dad, but unless fate or some sort of constitutional intervention throws a curve, Charles will become king of Canada someday.
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 George Zimmerman bloodied and bruised, files show Newly released police documents show Travyon Martin was shot at close range and that the gunman, George Zimmerman, suffered a broken nose, bruises and cuts to his head from an apparently violent struggle.
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 Obama hosts Harper and other leaders at G8 summit U.S. President Barack Obama welcomes Canada's prime minister and five other world leaders today to a bucolic presidential retreat as he kicks off two international summits.
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 Brian Stewart: Will Canada follow the U.S. into China's seas? China's rapidly expanding navy has provoked a shift in U.S. strategic interests to the Western Pacific and Canada is probably going to be dragged along, Brian Stewart writes. Beijing is not amused.
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 Inside Camp David, the secretive presidential retreat G8 leaders, including Prime Minister Stephen Harper, are convening at Camp David in Maryland. Take a virtual tour of the highly secretive facilities.
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 Life-support case for Toronto man to continue, court rules The Supreme Court of Canada will continue to hear a case about who can decide when to end life support for critically-ill people. Justices quashed a motion Thursday that would have halted a case brought by doctors who disagreed with a Toronto family's wishes.
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 Gay sex harassment complaint widens in Australia A gay political staffer who launched a sexual harassment case last month against the Speaker of Australia's parliament has also made a formal complaint about comments by Senators Bob Carr and Barnaby Joyce.
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