ROME (AP) — Police said Monday they had detained a man who confessed to knocking two chunks of marble off a statue in Rome's famed Piazza Navona and of trying to damage the nearby Trevi Fountain. The...

MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Katia has grown to a Category 3 storm as it moves across the Atlantic Ocean. On Monday afternoon, Katia's maximum sustained winds had increased to 116 mph. That makes Katia...

PERUGIA, Italy (AP) — Questions mounted Tuesday over crucial DNA evidence linking Amanda Knox and her co-defendant to the murder of her British roommate, with forensic experts giving detailed and...

(AP) — Louisiana Agriculture Commissioner Mike Strain says a marsh fire in eastern New Orleans is still smoldering, despite the rainfall from Tropical Storm Lee over the weekend.   Some parts...

SHREVEPORT (AP) — A labor expert says some industries in Louisiana need workers and that might be an indication of economic recovery. Jacques Lasseigne, director of field operations for the Louisiana...

SULPHUR (AP) — Calcasieu Parish Sheriff Tony Mancuso says two women have been killed in a trailer west of Sulphur. Mancuso tells the American Press the two women were dead when deputies arrived Sunday...

SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian court has upheld the conviction of an Amazon rancher found guilty of ordering the killing of an American nun and rain forest activist.   A court in Para state says...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A powerful earthquake jolted the western Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing a 12-year-old boy and sending people streaming from their houses and hotels in panic. Hundreds...

NEW YORK (AP) — The deputy mayor with authority over New York City's police department, fire department and emergency response coordination was arrested on a domestic-violence charge shortly before...

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — The body of a gazelle lies near an empty feeding bin, flies swarming around the corpse. A male lion growls angrily, leaping toward the front of his cage when a rare visitor...

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A top research group rated Zimbabwe's capital as the worst of 140 world cities to live in on Thursday. The British-based Economist Intelligence Unit said its researchers excluded...