BAGHDAD, Iraq – Drive-by gunmen and roadside bombs killed at least 11 people across Iraq on Monday, while police uncovered the bullet-riddled bodies of two men in Baghdad, police said. One Iraqi policeman was killed and his brother, also a policemen, was wounded in an attack by armed men firing …

BRUSSELS, Belgium – European Union antitrust regulators said Tuesday they were investigating the European agencies that collect royalties for musicians from Internet sites — in parallel with other EU moves to open up the European market for online music. The European Commission said it was concerned that the groups’ contracts …

BERLIN – Germany’s highest court Wednesday struck down a law that would have allowed the government to shoot down hijacked airliners as a last resort in a terrorist attack. President Horst Koehler signed the air safety bill last year, but he encouraged a review by the Federal Constitutional Court amid …

WASHINGTON – A Treasury Department official said Thursday a new U.S. sanctions program is disrupting North Korean and Iranian companies’ ability to help their countries develop nuclear weapons. Robert Werner, director of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, said U.S. actions help unravel the support networks that allow the development …

ATLANTA – Coretta Scott King‘s funeral will be held Tuesday at the suburban Baptist church where the Kings’ youngest child, Bernice, is a minister, according to the funeral director assisting the family with arrangements. Willie A. Watkins, director of the Willie Watkins Funeral Home in Atlanta, said Thursday that the …

VIENNA, Austria – Right-wing British historian David Irving pleaded guilty Monday to denying the Holocaust and was sentenced to three years in prison, even after conceding he wrongly said there were no Nazi gas chambers at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Irving, handcuffed and wearing a navy blue suit, arrived in …

MOSCOW – A top Iranian negotiator on Tuesday said “constructive” nuclear talks in Moscow offered hope of ending a diplomatic standoff, but some Russians voiced concern that Iran was using the talks to stall for time and avert international sanctions. The talks centered on a Kremlin compromise proposal, backed by …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Interior Ministry forces captured a top aide to Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi during a raid in western Iraq, a security official said Monday. The official, a member of the ministry’s counterinsurgency Wolf Brigade, identified the key Al Qaeda figure as Abu al-Farouq, who …

LONDON – Britain’s High Court was plunged into the arcane world of Templars, Merovingians and characters such as Pepin the Fat as lawyers argued Tuesday over the genesis of the mega-selling thriller “The Da Vinci Code.” A lawyer for the novel’s publisher said ideas about the life and legacy of …

I’m seeing embarrassed, rosy cheeks in your future. A fundraiser hosted by a Brooklyn politician mistakenly received a box of X-rated fortune cookies, according to The Associated Press. Many guests “were stunned, to say the least,” Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz told the AP Friday as some 350 cookies stuffed …