EL-ARISH, Egypt – An Egyptian army official says an armored military vehicle struck a roadside bomb during a raid on militant hideouts in northern Sinai Peninsula and the explosion killed one officer and wounded another. The official says Thursday’s bombing took place in the town of Sheik Zweid. No one …

TORONTO – Canada says it will issue a passport to Al-Jazeera English journalist Mohamed Fahmy, who remains in Egypt on bail while awaiting trial on terror charges. Kevin Menard, a spokesman for Canada’s immigration minister, said Monday they are “now in a position to issue Mr. Fahmy a passport despite …

MADRID – Spanish officials say police have busted a drug-dealing gang and arrested 11 people on suspicion of trafficking in narcotics in northern region of Rioja. Alberto Breton, a regional Interior Ministry spokesman, said the suspects were part of an organization based in the city of Logrono made up of …

ATHENS, Greece – The Greek coast guard is searching for a boat believed to be carrying 45 migrants and to have run into trouble south of the small Ionian island of Antipaxoi, off the western coast of mainland Greece. Two coast guard boats, a helicopter and one more boat sailing …

SAN FRANCISCO – Officials say a San Francisco rail station filled with smoke due to sparking from a track insulator. No injuries or damage were reported. Bay Area Rapid Transit spokeswoman Alica Trost says smoke was reported on the platform of the Powell Street station about 8:45 a.m. Friday. Trost …

TOLEDO, Ohio – A 450-year-old German artifact that was used to tell time and to make astronomical calculations will be returned to a German museum from which it was likely stolen, according to the Toledo Museum of Art. The device, called an astronomical compendium or astrolabe, disappeared from the Gotha …

LOS ANGELES – A mountain lion that’s a local celebrity has moved in under a Los Angeles home but authorities hope to dislodge him. Jason Archinaco, who owns a home in the hilly Los Feliz area, says workers installing a home security system encountered the cougar around noon Monday. Archinaco …

It seems David and Victoria Beckham know what they want, what they really really want — and they are willing to pay for it, even if it means buying out someone else’s wedding. Just before leaving London for L.A., the British babes decided they wanted to party, but their “Posh” …

What do you think of someone who says the following: The world would be better off without him? That after Tony Snow announced his cancer had returned. The pope is a primate. Evangelicals are nut cases. Better luck next time after an assassination plot against Vice President Cheney in Afghanistan. …

TomKat | Arif Mardin, R.I.P. | Steve Carell | Odds ‘n’ Ends Pictures of TomKat’s Baby Didn’t Sell If like everyone else you’ve been wondering what happened to Suri Cruise and why we’ve never seen a picture of her, here is part of the answer: No one wanted to pay …