CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Appeals Court has set April 13 as the date for a retrial of former president Hosni Mubarak, his interior minister and aides on charges of ordering the killing of protesters, MENA state news agency reported on Sunday. Mubarak is in a military hospital. In January a Cairo court granted him the retrial after he was jailed for life over the killing of protesters in early 2011 by security forces trying to quell the uprising against him. ...

CAIRO (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is wrapping up a visit to deeply divided Egypt with an appeal for unity and reform to the country's president and military chief.

FILE- In this Oct. 27, 2012, file photo, Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig talks at a news conference before Game 3 of baseball's World Series between the Detroit Tigers and the San Francisco in Detroit. Selig said Saturday, March 2, 2013, that he wants tougher penalties for major league players who violate the sport's drug agreement. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

China's fawning state media, jaded social media commentators and even poor farmers agree: new Communist Party chief Xi Jinping is off to a good start.

FILE- In this Oct. 27, 2012, file photo, Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig talks at a news conference before Game 3 of baseball's World Series between the Detroit Tigers and the San Francisco in Detroit. Selig said Saturday, March 2, 2013, that he wants tougher penalties for major league players who violate the sport's drug agreement. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Olympic champion Jenn Suhr lit up the U.S. indoor athletics championships on Saturday by leaping 5.02 meters to set a new women's pole vault world record, while throwing down the gauntlet to Russian great Yelena Isinbayeva. The 31-year-old American's stunning vault in Albuquerque, New Mexico, eclipsed Isinbayeva's indoor mark of 5.01m set in 2012 and is sure to heat up their rivalry ahead of August's outdoor world championships in Moscow. "I was in a groove tonight," Suhr, who set the mark on her first attempt at the height, told reporters. ...

Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party paved the way on Saturday for possible tax hikes and an overhaul of state oil giant Pemex as it seeks to spur growth in Latin America's second-biggest economy. PRI delegates at a congress in Mexico City voted to change the party's position on refusing to consider the imposition of a value-added tax on food and medicine, and giving the party scope to open up Pemex to more private capital. ...

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell lambasted a liberal group on Saturday for criticizing the Asian heritage of his wife.

The failure by Obama and Republicans to agree to halt the $85 billion "sequester" cuts virtually guaranteed that fiscal issues would remain center stage in Washington for weeks.

Dogs barked and spectators cheered as 66 mushers and their teams in the 1,000-mile Iditarod race set out from downtown Anchorage on Saturday after religious blessings, singing and glad-handing with fans.

A century and a half after USS Monitor sank, the interment of two unknown crewmen found in the Civil War ironclad's turret is bringing together people from across the country.

Chadian soldiers in Mali have killed Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the al Qaeda commander who masterminded a bloody hostage-taking at an Algerian gas plant in January, Chad's military said on Saturday. The death of one of the world's most wanted jihadists would be a major blow to al Qaeda in the region and to Islamist rebels already forced to flee towns they had seized in northern Mali by an offensive by French and African troops. "On Saturday, March 2, at noon, Chadian armed forces operating in northern Mali completely destroyed a terrorist base. ... ...

The strategist said Republicans must diversify and create a strategy to spread their message to a wider audience.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has lambasted a liberal group for criticizing the ethnicity of his wife, former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao.

Scientists have found what they believe to be a planet-in-the-making that is still gathering material left over from the formation of its parent star.

Israeli President Shimon Peres on Saturday gave Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu more time.