LONDON (AP) — Actor Hugh Grant told a London courtroom Monday about the dark side of celebrity life, describing mysterious break-ins, leaked medical details and hacked voice mails — and laying...

BRUSSELS (AP) — The EU's executive arm said Monday that it wants to completely ban shark finning — the practice of removing sharks' fins and throwing the finless creatures back into the sea...

LONDON (AP) — The U.K. will cut financial ties with Iranian banks over fears about its nuclear program, Britain's Treasury chief George Osborne said Monday. Osborne said all U.K. financial institutions...

BENTON (AP) — Bossier Parish voters have overwhelmingly approved a fourth floating casino in Bossier City — a gaming barge and Margaritaville-themed hotel. KTBS-TV reports 61 percent of those...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Navy says it plans to kick out 28 sailors assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan for using a synthetic drug that mimics marijuana called Spice. The announcement Monday...

HAMMOND (AP) — Southeastern Louisiana University has fired football coach Mike Lucas, effective immediately. The university announced Lucas' dismissal Monday. It did not provide reasons for letting...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Artists used paint, ornaments and glitter to transform the human body into artwork at a festival in Venezuela, showing off designs that ranged from pure fantasy to indigenous...

ZINTAN, Libya (AP) — Libya's new leaders said Sunday they will try Moammar Gadhafi's son at home and not hand him over to the International Criminal Court where he's charged with crimes against humanity....

SOUTHWEST RANCHES, Fla. (AP) — In one of South Florida's upscale, rural enclaves, town leaders decided to bring in much of their money from an unusual business: a prison. Only the leaders of Southwest...

(AP) — The charter school movement and state education overhaul plans sought by Gov. Bobby Jindal got a boost from the runoff elections for the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. And the...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A spokesman for the FFA says four-seat airplane crashed into Lake Pontchartrain shortly after taking off from Lakefront Airport. Lynn Lunsford says the pilot notified controllers...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — McDonald's Corp. said Friday it has dropped a Minnesota-based egg supplier after an animal rights group released an undercover video of operations at the egg producer's farms in...