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NEW YORK – Authorities on Friday said a machine pistol used by a street hustler shot dead in a Times Square gunfight was purchased in October at a Virginia gun shop whose business card was found in the aspiring rapper’s pocket, and they were looking for the woman who bought …

LONDON – Police say they have arrested a man suspected of knifing 8 people in a rampage in a town in northern England. West Yorkshire Police say the stabbing spree ended early Friday morning when bystanders detained a 19-year-old outside a pub in the town of Keighley. Four people were …

LOS ANGELES – Oscar De La Hoya is calling it quits in the ring. Boxing’s most popular fighter announced his decision Tuesday across the street from Staples Center, where a statue of him stands. De La Hoya is retiring four months after he was thoroughly beaten by Manny Pacquiao in …

Miss California is not backing down from the answer regarding gay marriage she gave on Sunday night’s Miss USA telecast. Carrie Prejean told FOXNews.com that she had “no regrets” and was happy with the answer she gave when a Miss USA judge, the gossip blogger Perez Hilton, asked about her …

LAGOS, Nigeria – U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s (search) son believes he has been unfairly criticized in an official report on the awarding of a U.N. Oil-for-Food contract to a company for which he worked, his lawyers said in a statement Wednesday. Kojo Annan (search), who lives and works in Lagos, …

I’ll be honest — I don’t know if I have anything left to say about Terri Schiavo (search) except the issue of “a private family matter.” I’ve had two of these private family matters — both my mother and my father. So I’ve had to wonder over the last few …

A simple word-memory test may accurately detect the earliest stages of Alzheimer’s disease (search) and improve treatment of the disease, according to a new study. Researchers found that by weighting individual performance on a standard 10-word recall test used to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease, they were able to significantly improve the …

NEW YORK – Hip-hop diva Lil’ Kim (search) repeatedly told a grand jury “preposterous” lies, a federal prosecutor told jurors Monday as she urged them to convict the hip-hop diva of perjury for her eyewitness account of a 2001 gunfight. “Maybe she really believed she was the queen bee, that …

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – More than 80 million Africans may die from AIDS (search) by 2025, the United Nations said in a report released Friday, and infections could soar to 90 million — or more than 10 percent of the continent’s population — if more isn’t done soon to fight …

Having a drink or two a day may lower your risk of developing type 2 diabetes by as much as 30 percent, according to a new review of research on the subject. Researchers tallied data from 15 studies that included information on alcohol use and diabetes risk in nearly 370,000 …