• After a week of avoiding journalists, Mayor Rob Ford of Toronto on Friday denied accusations that he smoked crack cocaine.    
  • Mayor Rob Ford says he is not an addict after a video purportedly show him using the drug
  • The measure also bans the sale of alcoholic drinks between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., except in tourist zones, and prohibits alcohol sales near mosques and schools.    
  • Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, was made an “assisted witness” on Friday in an investigation into allegations of possible fraud and misuse of public funds.    
  • A court is probing Christine Lagarde's role in $520M payment to a flamboyant tycoon when she served as French prime minister
  • PARIS — Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, submitted to a second day of interrogation Friday about her role in the settlement of a multi-million-dollar business dispute when she was French ...
  • An 8.3-magnitude earthquake struck Russia’s Far East on Friday, sending tremors that prompted evacuations as far away as Moscow, more than 4,000 miles to the west of the epicenter.    
  • MOSCOW If an earthquake can shake Moscow, what's next? Anyone taking a look at the Global Seismic Hazard Map, can see that the capital of Russia sits squarely in a big boring gray blotch, which means no hazard. At all. Yet on ...
  • Four Indian Army soldiers and a gunman suspected of being a rebel were killed in fighting in the Indian portion of Kashmir on Friday, officials said.    
  • Fighting for the Syrian town of Qusayr has been unusually fierce, and the tenacity of rebels against better-armed opponents has given the battle strong symbolic significance.    
  • A section of the Riverside Bridge, which carries traffic along Interstate-5 near Seattle, collapsed after a truck hit an overhead beam, plunging vehicles into the Skagit River below; and "On the Road," Steve Hartman reports on three siblings who survived the Okla. tornado that destroyed their home a...
  • Taking America off “perpetual war footing,” as the president proposes to do, will not be a simple task.    
  • Two of Nelson Mandela’s daughters are suing for more control of their father’s trust, bringing into the open a long-simmering dispute over his financial legacy.    
  • Michael Adebowale, a 22-year-old Nigerian-born naturalized British citizen, was identified as the second suspect in the hacking death of a British soldier in a London street.
  • The first of 350 additional Marine guards at high-risk embassies and consulates around the world later this year will cost about $1.6 million each.    
  • Similar to the Boston Marathon bombings, the two London terror suspects were on a U.K. government watch list. But investigators said there was no way to predict they would commit a crime. Bob Orr reports on how the watch list system maybe be getting overwhelmed..
  • The Nissos Rodos, a 630-foot ferry, used to cruise the Greek islands, moving tourists from one sunny paradise to the next. Business dried up when the Greek economic crisis hit three years ago. But then came the war in Syria, creating new opportunity. Read full article >>    
  • The "easy-going, good humored" Saudi Arabian student who briefly became an object of intense suspicion after the Boston bombings broke two months of silence this week, telling The Islamic Monthly that media attention since the attacks "double injured" him. Read full article >>    
  • Fighter jets scrambled, Pakistani jet diverted after 2 passengers reportedly threatened to "destroy" plane; Official says incident does not appear to be terror-related
  • LONDON — Two passengers on board a Pakistan International Airlines flight were arrested Friday on suspicion of endangering an aircraft after Britain scrambled two Royal Air Force Typhoon jets to investigate and escort the plane...
  • A Pakistan International Airlines flight with almost 300 aboard was en route from Lahore to Manchester when it was diverted on Friday.    
  • The best images from the week's news, May 17 - May 24, 2013
  • Flash Points: CBS News National Security Correspondent Bob Orr talks with CBS Senior National Security Analyst Juan Zarate about the "more constrained standards" the president outlined regarding the use of unmanned drone strikes on terrorist targets, exploring what constitutes "sufficient informatio...
  • MUMBAI — Cricketers in custody, team executives under scrutiny and frenzied media coverage for all the wrong reasons: This is not the gripping end-of-season climax the Indian Premier League wanted. As cricket’s wealthiest tournament gears up for its annual final on Sunday, claims of alleged m...
  • In Greece, the perils of a drawn-out debt crisis are imprinted on its younger population — whose unemployment numbers are soaring — who turn to selling their bodies for money and to a dangerous, cheap new street drug for escape.    
  • The violent youth riots that spread across Stockholm's suburbs this week seem at odds with the public perception of Sweden as one of the world's most liberal and tolerant countries. But the racially charged riots, which have taken place largely in poor immigrant communities, actually expose deep...

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