LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police say a paparazzo was hit by a car and killed after taking photos of Justin Bieber’s white Ferrari on a Los Angeles street. Los Angeles police Officer James Stoughton says the photographer, who was not identified, died at a hospital shortly after the crash Tuesday evening. Stoughton says Bieber was […]

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s vice president is returning home today from a visit with Hugo Chavez in Cuba and says the ailing president’s condition remains “delicate” three weeks after his cancer surgery. With rumors swirling that Chavez had taken a turn for the worse, Vice President Nicolas Maduro said Tuesday that he had met […]

BEIRUT (AP) — Activists say dozens of people have been killed or wounded in an air raid on a gas station near the capital Damascus. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees say the airstrike occurred today in the eastern Damascus suburb of Mleiha. An amateur video posted online showed […]

LUXOR, Egypt (AP) — Egyptian security officials say two men have killed a technician and a principal at a school in the southern city of Luxor, slitting their throats with a knife. The officials say the assailants walked into the school early today, led the two men into the computer lab, killed them and then […]

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi authorities say five people have been killed in a string of attacks across the country. Police officials say that in the first attack, gunmen early today fatally shot a policeman and his brother who is a member of anti-al-Qaida group north of Baghdad. In the western province of Anbar, a car […]

SWABI, Pakistan (AP) — Hundreds of villagers in northwest Pakistan turned out today to bury five female teachers and two health workers who were gunned down a day earlier by militants in what may have been the latest in a series of attacks targeting anti-polio efforts in the country. The seven had worked at a […]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — High seas and strong winds prevented crews from boarding an oil drilling ship to check for any damage after the large vessel went aground off an uninhabited island in the Gulf of Alaska. A Coast Guard plane and a helicopter flew over the Kulluk on Tuesday, but severe weather did not […]