Venezuela
CARACAS -- Thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets Friday to help President Hugo Chavez celebrate the eighth anniversary of his failed military coup.
Peru
LIMA -- An American woman convicted and imprisoned in Peru for aiding leftist rebels might be allowed to serve her time in the United States, the country's prime minister said Friday. New York native Lori Berenson, 30, has been held for four years in Peruvian prisons.
Iran
TEHRAN -- Hundreds of Iranian clerics and seminary students rallied in the holy Shiite city of Qom on Friday, the second day of protests against what they say are lax cultural policies, witnesses said.
Mexico
MEXICO CITY -- Mexican authorities said Friday they had arrested a man headed toward the U.S. border carrying nearly a 2.2 pounds of heroin in the soles of his boots.
Indonesia
JAKARTA -- The Indonesian army on Friday warned that an escalating battle of wills between the country's first democratically elected president and a defiant ex-military chief was becoming dangerous but ruled out a coup.
Colombia
BOGOTA -- At least 17 people died in attacks by leftist and right-wing gunmen in Colombia Friday, including a 6-year-old boy killed by a car bomb detonated by suspected Marxist rebels.
Canada
TORONTO -- The police union in Canada's largest city has pulled the plug on a controversial fund-raising campaign that drew a barrage of criticism -- including charges it was nothing more than a protection racket run by police.
NIAGARA FALLS -- A Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum is offering a reward for information leading to the return of its head -- a rare shrunken human head worth $16,800 stolen Feb. 1.
Germany
BERLIN -- Leni Riefenstahl, who rose to international fame and notoriety for her Nazi-era documentary films, said Friday she was planning, at age 97, a controversial journey through the African country of Sudan.
England
LONDON -- Best-selling novelist Jeffrey Archer, who was forced to drop out of the race for London mayor after admitting he once asked a friend to lie for him in a libel case, was expelled Friday from the Conservative Party for five years.
LONDON -- An EgyptAir pilot flew a plane load of passengers into London on Friday and then sought asylum in Britain.
Ukraine
KIEV -- Left-wing deputies occupying Ukraine's parliament building Friday asked the Constitutional Court to declare a rival center-right assembly unlawful.
Burundi
BUJUMBURA -- The government on Friday said it will close 11 of 50 camps it has set up to house Hutu peasants it says must be protected from Tutsi-led military operations against rebels.
Sweden
STOCKHOLM -- A district court ordered eight teenage boys held in connection with the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl in a Stockholm suburb over the weekend.
Rwanda
KIGALI -- Congolese soldiers tried to overrun Rwanda troops in southern Congo but were ambushed instead, Rwandan military officials said Friday.
Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO -- Police have found a car that had been stolen from Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso's wife, police said Friday, after the embarrassed presidential family had two cars stolen in three months.
Ivory Coast
ABIDJAN -- Divers on Friday brought up a "black box" of a Kenya Airways jet that crashed into the Atlantic with 179 people aboard, leaving only 10 survivors.