MADRID – Spanish clothes retailer Inditex, owner of the Zara store chain, says its net profit rose by 28 per cent in the first quarter following a boost in sales. The company said Wednesday that profit for February through April rose to 521 million euros ($586 million) compared with 406 …

YANGON, Myanmar – A raid by India’s army on insurgents accused of killing 18 Indian soldiers last week took place on Indian soil, not inside Myanmar as some Indian media reported, a Myanmar official said Thursday. Although Myanmar has relatively little control over the porous border region, it would be …

TUNIS, Tunisia – An armed militia stormed into the Tunisian general consulate in Libya’s capital on Friday, taking 10 employees hostage, officials said. Mokhtar Chaouachi, a spokesman for the Tunisian Foreign Ministry, said it was not clear whether the attackers were holding the hostages on site or had taken them …

MIAMI — A Florida child isn’t letting his disability get in the way of his big-league dreams. Twelve-year-old Tyler Jacques of Palm Coast will join 19 other children from across the country this week in Kentucky. They will take part in a five-day softball camp for disabled children run by …

PITTSBURGH – Police say a 2-year-old girl found dead in the woods of a Pittsburgh suburb had been placed there by someone because it was too far for her to walk by herself. Allegheny County police say Adrionna Williams was discovered dead about 40 minutes after her family reported her …

NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania – A court in Mauritania has convicted three men of belonging to the Islamic State extremist group and sentenced them to between five and 10 years in prison. The men were arrested last year during a demonstration and authorities said they had IS flags and photos of the …

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – A former Roman Catholic priest has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for taking a teenage boy on a cruise ship vacation with the intent to engage in illegal sexual conduct. The U.S. Attorney’s Office on the U.S. Caribbean island says expelled priest Israel …

Jordan’s top diplomat denied that the revolutions that have rocked Tunisia and Egypt over the last month, and which sent the longtime rulers of both countries fleeing their respective capitals, will spread to Amman. In an exclusive interview with Fox News, Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judah said the recent wave …

A growing network of NASA cameras is providing dramatic images of meteors as they streak across the night sky, and may eventually protect astronauts in space. “If you have an object that’s picked up by multiple cameras, you can figure out speed, direction and height,” said David Dundee, an astronomer …

You wouldn’t want a deathstalker scorpion in your boot. But it could save your life. Tarantula venom may seem frightful. But medically speaking, it’s awesome. And gila monster spit? Great stuff, if you have diabetes. They’re just a few examples of a fascinating area of research using the venom from …