The African Union said Friday it will send 5,000 soldiers to join the hunt for notorious rebel leader Joseph Kony, a new mission that comes amid a wildly popular Internet campaign targeting the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army. The mission is to be launched in South Sudan on Saturday and will last until Kony [...]

U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday called the shooting death of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin a tragedy and said the boy’s parents are right to expect Americans will be looking at the incident “with the seriousness it deserves.” Answering a question from a reporter following announcement at the White House on another matter, Obama urged [...]

U.S. army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales was charged on Friday with 17 counts of premeditated murder, a capital offence that could lead to the death penalty in the massacre of Afghan civilians, the U.S. military said. The 38-year-old soldier is accused of walking off a U.S. military base with his 9-mm pistol and M4 rifle, [...]

The Toronto Raptors gave head coach Dwane Casey the toughness he’s been looking for and in the process cooled off the red-hot Knicks. DeMar DeRozan poured in a season-high 30 points and the Raptors handed the New York its first loss in six games with a 96-79 victory on Friday night. Andrea Bargnani added 21 [...]

It’s a long road to Sunday’s final at the women’s world curling championship for Canada’s Heather Nedohin, but she’s at least still on it. Her Edmonton rink beat Allison Pottinger of the U.S. 9-8 in Friday’s tiebreaker to claim the fourth and final playoff berth. Canada meets Ji-Sun Kim of South Korea in Saturday’s Page [...]