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Fume-belching camellos replaced on Havana’s streets

Published April 21, 2008

;HAVANA (AP) - First comes the stink of diesel, then a metallic roar, and finally a tower of black smoke that tells you the "camello" - the camel - has reached your stop. These hulking 18-wheeled beasts,...

Cancer patients try untested drugs in Britain

Published April 18, 2008

LONDON (AP) - When Jill Bracey Cowley was diagnosed with bone marrow cancer eight years ago, doctors told her she had two years to live. So she decided to take a gamble and try new drugs that hadn't yet...

Speaker urges universal humanitarianism

Published April 18, 2008

Hany El-Banna is the co-founder of Islamic Relief, a Muslim aid organization.

Killer of Idaho family wants to defend self in penalty case

Published April 17, 2008

The man murdered three members of a family and raped their two young children.

U.S. Supreme Court decision to uphold lethal injection shocks inmates

Published April 17, 2008

Death sentences that were put on hold will be carried out as soon as dates can be set.

Admitted Nazi hit man charged with 3 murders

Published April 17, 2008

>BERLIN (AP) - A German prosecutor has filed new murder charges against an admitted Nazi hit man who has avoided jail for nearly six decades despite being convicted in the Netherlands of killing civilians...

Campbell to transfer at end of the semester

by Mark Heise
Published April 16, 2008

The sophomore women's basketball player was released from her scholarship.

When gay couples can’t make it work, divorces prove hard to obtain

Published April 16, 2008

.PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Gay couples had to struggle mightily to win the right to marry or form civil unions. Now, some are finding that breaking up is hard to do, too. In Rhode Island, for example, the...

China demands apology from CNN

Published April 16, 2008

.BEIJING (AP) - China demanded an apology from CNN on Tuesday after network commentator Jack Cafferty called the country's leaders a "bunch of goons and thugs" and said its products were "junk." It was...

French lawmakers aim to outlaw glamorizing thinness

Published April 16, 2008

.PARIS (AP) - In image-conscious France, it may soon be a crime to glamorize the ultrathin. A new French bill cracks down on Web sites that advise anorexics on how to starve - and could be used to hit...