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A Turkish court has invalidated the first round of last week's presidential election. The decision is a setback for the moderate Islamist party's candidate, Abdullah Gul, who was expected to win easily. The fear: too much power for a non-secular party.

Los Angeles braced for a large turnout for two immigrant rights demonstrations this May Day. The focus on pressuring Congress to adopt broad immigration changes could draw large enough crowds to bring downtown businesses to a halt.

The Scottish National Party, the SNP, has become the biggest party in Scotland, by just one seat. The SNP, which is committed to Scottish independence, will need to form a coalition in order to take power in Edinburgh. Although the result will have little immediate effect, the SNP has promised to hold a referendum on Scotland leaving the United Kingdom in 2010.

Conservative Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist Segolene Royal have advanced to a May 6 runoff in France's presidential elections. With most of the votes counted, Sarkozy took in more than 31 percent, with Segolene second at just under 26 percent.

A key event surrounding the Democratic presidential debate in South Carolina was Rep. Jim Clyburn's famous fish fry.

French voters will elect their new president this Sunday, in a run-off between the two winners of the first round, conservative Nicolas Sarkozy and socialist Segolene Royal. Both have been fighting for the center-ground of French politics. Most independent pollsters say they lean toward Royal, but Sarkozy is still ahead in the polls.

With his famous "slam dunk" comment about Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction, George Tenet helped shape the arguments that led the United States into the Iraq war. Now, in a new memoir, the former CIA chief tells his side of the story about events leading to September 11 and the war in Iraq.

In Massachusetts, foreclosure filings have nearly doubled over the past year. People facing foreclosure rallied at the Massachusetts State House on Thursday.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is refusing to resign Monday after a special commission harshly criticized his leadership during last July's war in Lebanon. The two Israeli soldiers whose kidnapping sparked the war in Lebanon are still not free.

All eight Democratic presidential candidates were on stage Thursday night in South Carolina for their first debate in the 2008 run for the White House. The state has set an early presidential primary.