AP - As Terri Schiavo's health waned, a federal judge refused Friday to order the reinsertion of her feeding tube, thwarting another legal move from the brain-damaged woman's parents. They quickly appealed the ruling and said "something has to be done quick."
AP - Kyrgyzstan's triumphant opposition scrambled Friday to restore order in a capital described as "gone mad" with looting, and it named a rebellion leader as acting president after driving President Askar Akayev from power.
AP - A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle near the restive central city of Ramadi, killing 11 Iraqi police commandos and injuring 14 other people including two U.S. soldiers, the U.S. military said Friday.
4pm: The Conservative leader, Michael Howard, today withdrew the party whip from his party's former deputy chairman, Howard Flight, as Labour insisted the row showed the Tories would devastate public services.
Terri Schiavo's parents have appealed this morning's federal court ruling against reconnecting their brain-damaged daughter's feeding tube. Attorneys for Bob and Mary Schindler filed the appeal with the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. It's the second time this week that Schiavo's parents have taken their case to the Atlanta court.
A document from the U.S. military appears to contradict the Pentagon's previous statements that it does not know whether al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden escaped U.S. forces at Tora Bora in Afghanistan in December 2001.