This is the main news as covered by the Associated Press on 18 April...

A college student and Iraqi refugee yanked from a Southwest Airlines flight after mentioning a terrorist group's name during a phone conversation in Arabic said Monday he was degraded and humiliated...

Everybody loved Doris Roberts. The spunky actress who played the tart-tongued, endlessly meddling mother on CBS' "Everybody Loves Raymond" received an outpouring of praise on Monday...

Hundreds of migrants drowned when their boat capsized in the Mediterranean, survivors have told the BBC - although there is no official confirmation. The 41 survivors say they were transferred to...

Ecuador's security minister says the death toll from the country's devastating earthquake has risen to 350. Cesar Navas tells the Teleamazonas station that rescuers are continuing to seek...

Sweden's housing minister has stepped down amid mounting questions over his contacts with Islamists and ultra-nationalists from his native Turkey. Mehmet Kaplan, a 44-year-old Green Party member...

The longest-reigning monarch in British history turns 90 on Thursday, but Queen Elizabeth II is not planning a major, fireworks-filled celebration to mark the happy occasion. Just a gentle stroll...

European Union foreign ministers are looking at ways to boost the fledgling U.N.-backed national unity government in Libya and see how to control illegal migration from the north African...

British Treasury chief George Osborne says the country would be "permanently poorer" if it votes to leave the European Union in a June 23 referendum. Osborne says in an interview with the BBC...

These are the main stories covered by the Associated Press on 17 April...