WASHINGTON – The United States bluntly warned Serbia against inciting violence after an angry mob protesting the independence of the former Serbian province of Kosovo stormed and set fire to the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade on Thursday. The attack played out live on television screens around the world and the …

LONDON – London police feared an armed confrontation if they tried to arrest a visiting Israeli army general who was accused in a war crimes complaint filed by a human rights group, British Broadcasting Corp. said Tuesday. Retired Gen. Doron Almog dodged the arrest in 2005 by staying on his …

An 11-year-old Brooklyn girl made a gruesome discovery Thursday at her father’s home. Murat Saint Hilaire, 55, was found lying lifeless on his bedroom floor. As if that wasn’t bad enough, he had a corkscrew lodged in his head, WABC New York reports. The girl, whose name was not released, …

LONDON – The High Court judge imposed a gag order on Paul McCartney and Heather Mills to prevent leaks of their five-day divorce hearing, the Daily Mail reported Tuesday. Justice Hugh Bennett warned the couple and their advisers that they face contempt of court proceedings and huge fines if confidential …

WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday that the top military commander in Iraq is not the sole adviser on the war and suggested that President Bush this year will be confronted with competing views on what to do next. Gates told the Senate Armed Services Committee that he …

LAFAYETTE, Tenn. – County Mayor Shelvy Linville could only shake his head at the horrific toll left by a deadly series of tornadoes that pounded across the South. “It really is unbelievable that Mother Nature can create that much devastation,” he said Wednesday evening at his Macon County home. “We …

White Americans are both genetically weaker and less diverse than their black compatriots, a Cornell University-led study finds. Analyzing the genetic makeup of 20 Americans of European ancestry and 15 African-Americans, researchers found that the former showed much less variation among 10,000 tested genes than did the latter, which was …

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – A U.S. missile strike that killed a top Al Qaeda commander in Pakistan marked a significant victory for the U.S. in its battle against the terror network after a series of pessimistic assessments of the American-led campaign against the Taliban in neighboring Afghanistan. The death of Abu …

WASHINGTON – The Pentagon can require its troops be vaccinated against anthrax, a federal judge said Friday. Judge Rosemary M. Collyer said the Food and Drug Administration acted appropriately when it found the vaccine to be safe and approved its use. She dismissed a lawsuit by military officials who argued …

TAMPA, Fla. – Andy Pettitte has not spoken to Roger Clemens since giving a sworn statement which implicated his good friend in the use of human growth hormone. “I think it’s put a strain on our friendship,” Pettitte said in an eagerly awaited news conference Monday at the New York …