I always wondered just how long it took after Abraham Lincoln was shot before they had the first “Abraham Lincoln’s Day Sale.” I suspect not long. I fear we’ve done much the same with Memorial Day (search). It’s now more prone to remember the sales and barbecues, than the sweat …

LONDON – British police have detained a man who spent the night on the roof of the Palace of Westminster on suspicion of criminal damage and trespassing. Scotland Yard said Sunday it was too early to know why the 23-year-old made his way to the top of Neo-Gothic masterpiece that …

PARIS – A man and a boy featured in a chilling Islamic State propaganda video showing the killing of a Palestinian have been identified as French citizens, and investigators are looking into whether the man is related to an extremist who attacked a Jewish school in southern France in 2012, …

COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Swedish artist Lars Vilks, the main speaker at a seminar in Copenhagen targeted by a gunman a month ago, has received a freedom of speech prize. Denmark’s Free Press Society said Vilks received its annual award on Saturday for his “staunch fearlessness.” The 68-year-old has received numerous …

ISTANBUL – A Turkish government official says that authorities are holding a 21-year-old British woman who was suspected of trying to travel to conflict zones in Syria. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of government rules against speaking without prior authorization. The woman was detained at a bus …

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica’s top cop says he will send more officers into island hot spots to combat a worrying uptick in homicides. Police Commissioner Carl Williams said Thursday that “there are persons among us who have become killing machines.” Last year, Jamaica saw double-digit decreases in every crime category, …

CHISINAU, Moldova – A pro-Russian politician who favors closer ties with Moscow has been elected governor of a semi-autonomous region in Moldova. Election officials said that Irina Vlah won more than 51 percent of the vote in Sunday’s election to be elected governor of Gagauzia for a four-year term. After …

KARACHI, Pakistan – Police and hospital officials say a roadside bomb has struck a bus carrying police officers in southern Pakistan, wounding at least 10 people. Police officer Mohammad Ali says the attack took place Friday morning in Karachi, the capital of Pakistan’s southern Sindh province. He says the bus …

ISTANBUL – An Istanbul court has acquitted 236 military officers of charges of plotting a coup to overthrow the government of then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The court ruled Tuesday in favor of the officers in their retrial, launched months after the Turkey’s highest court ruled that the original trial …

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan – Turkmenistan’s president has fired the heads of the country’s central bank and its natural gas company in the wake of economic troubles that brought the country’s currency down 18.5 percent this year. President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov’s orders at a Cabinet session Saturday were reported by the tightly controlled …