International Top Stories from Associated Press (AP)

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. , A federal appeals court has upheld a Missouri law banning protests within 300 feet of funerals but has struck down a broader law that could have kept protesters even further away. The decision Friday by a panel of the 8th U.S.

An estimated 50 survivors were discovered Friday with the piles of rubble that once served as a garment factory Bangladesh. The multi-storied garment facility collapsed on Wednesday, killing more than 300. Friday's discover brings the total victims who have been saved to 2,300.

President Obama offered a defiant defense of government funding for Planned Parenthood Friday and urged the group's members to help his administration sign up more women for benefits under his besieged health-care law.

Moving with striking speed and overwhelming bipartisanship, Congress on Friday ordered President Obama to cancel the furloughs of air traffic controllers, making the second big dent in the budget sequesters.

Investigators have charged a 47-year-old man and two hospital workers in India with trying to sell the man's newborn grandson on Facebook for drug money. Feroz Khan was charged with arranging via Facebook for two nurses to abduct the baby from the hospital where is daughter gave birth, Agence France Presse reported. Mr.

Former Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, who resigned from the Obama administration in January to return to California, left Washington with $50,000 to $100,000 in legal debts, according to her final personal financial disclosure form, which she was required to file upon resigning her post.

Hyundai executives issued a hasty apology Thursday after widespread outrage over one of its advertisements that relied on a suicide message to tout the vehicle's clean emissions. The 60-second U.K. commercial, called "Pipe Job," showed a man trying to commit suicide by starting his Hyundai iX35 inside a closed-in garage and ostensibly succumbing to carbon monoxide poisoning.

The Army's chief of staff and a Marine veteran congressman clashed publicly Thursday in a long-simmering dispute over the service's battlefield intelligence processor. Gen. Raymond Odierno exploded in anger when he interpreted a question from Rep. Duncan Hunter as an insult.

An off-duty U.S. navy sailor wrestled a Dubai bus driver to the ground and beat him into submission after he tried to rape her at knifepoint on Jan. 19, a courtroom heard Wednesday. The woman, 28, was on 24-hour shore leave in Dubai when she was attacked by a bus driver after he picked her up from the Mall of the Emirates shopping center.

Former President Bill Clinton decided to officially join the Twitterverse Wednesday night, posting his own tweets a couple weeks after Comedy Central funny man Stephen Colbert set the account up for him. "Excited to join @ChelseaClinton and my good friend @StephenAtHome on Twitter!" @billclinton tweeted Wednesday.

The Afghan military is "marginally" capable of repelling attacks from the Islamist extremists who antagonize large parts of the country, according to an internal Pentagon assessment that raises red flags for President Obama's plan to withdraw the majority of US troops next year.

A helicopter transporting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a quick emergency landing Thursday after military officials spotted , then shot down , an unmanned drone that was entering Israeli airspace. This is the second time in seven months that an unmanned drone had entered Israeli airspace without authorization, NBC reported.

Rep. Tom Cotton took to the House floor Wednesday afternoon "to express grave doubts about the Obama Administration's counterterrorism policies and programs." "Counterterrorism is often shrouded in secrecy, as it should be, so let us judge by the results," the freshman congressman from Arkansas said.

The head of the Catholic Church in Belgium kept his head bowed calmly in prayer as topless female activists hurled insults and doused him with water Tuesday at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles in Brussels.

Parents in New York state are outraged after an anti-bullying presentation for teenage girls at Linden Avenue Middle School in Red Hook required students to role-play a lesbian relationship. The workshop, meant for 13- to 14-year-old girls, focused on homosexuality and gender identity, CBN News reports.