CLICHY-SOUS-BOIS, France – Menacing youths smoked cigarettes in doorways Wednesday and hulks of burned cars littered the tough streets of Paris’ northeastern suburbs scarred by a week of riots that left residents on edge and sent the government into crisis mode. In a seventh consecutive night of skirmishes, young people …
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GENEVA – Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong (search) has won control of two Internet domain names containing the name of his fund-raising LiveStrong bracelets. Arbitrators for the World Intellectual Property Organization on Tuesday ordered the transfer of the domain names http://www.livestrongbracelets.net and http://www.talk-livestrong.com to the cycling great. He …
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SANTIAGO, Chile – Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori (search) was arrested early Monday, hours after he defied an international arrest warrant and flew from Japan to Chile, police said. Shortly after Fujimori’s presence in Chile was confirmed Sunday, the Peruvian government asked Santiago to arrest him while a request for …
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The Food and Drug Administration asked Congress on Tuesday for authority to dictate label changes for drugs to end the type of haggling with pharmaceutical companies that delayed warnings to Vioxx (search) users about potential heart problems. Sandra L. Kweder, FDA’s deputy director for new drugs, told the Senate Committee …
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HOMOSASSA, Fla. – The full-scale search for a missing 9-year-old girl ended its final day as law enforcement officers turned to child abduction experts for help. Investigators and hundreds of volunteer searchers have uncovered little evidence during five days of scouring the rural area where Jessica Lunsford disappeared, and the …
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NEW YORK – “Scrubs” (search) star Zach Braff is returning to the director’s chair. Braff, who wrote and directed “Garden State” last year, will direct the latest video from singer-songwriter Gavin DeGraw. “Zach and I met at one of my shows and I was so flattered to hear he was …
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WASHINGTON – The first of President Bush’s blocked judicial nominees advanced to the Senate on Thursday, setting up a showdown over filibusters that could shut the Senate down. The Judiciary Committee, on a 10-8 party-line vote, sent the nomination of former Interior lawyer William Myers (search) for the 9th U.S. …
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ROME – Pope John Paul II‘s (search) attacker has alleged that Vatican (search) prelates helped him carry out the 1981 shooting in St. Peter’s Square — a claim that was quickly dismissed Thursday by a cardinal. Mehmet Ali Agca (search) shot John Paul in the abdomen on May 13, 1981, …
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BAGHDAD, Iraq – Clashes erupted between U.S. troops and insurgents Tuesday in the troubled city of Ramadi west of the capital, leaving at least two people dead, officials said. In Baghdad, gunmen assassinated the deputy chief of the Interior Ministry’s immigration office, Gen. Ghazi Mohammed Issa (search), in a drive-by …
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ST. LOUIS – A quadriplegic attorney settled his lawsuit against producers of NBC’s “The Apprentice” (search) after they agreed to make clear the program accepts applications from the disabled. James Schottel Jr. (search), whose federal lawsuit claimed the show’s online application was discriminatory in requiring “excellent physical” health of would-be …
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