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LONDON – An auction house says it is selling a rare first edition of Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” found in a family’s guest lavatory in southern England. Christie’s auction house said Sunday the book — one of around 1,250 copies first printed in 1859 — had been …

PARIS – A French lawmaker says she has proposed a bill to ban corporal punishment, including spanking of children. National Assembly member and pediatrician Edwige Antier says she believes spanking makes children more “sly, lying and aggressive.” The lawmaker says that after 38 years of medical practice she believes that …

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – The portfolio of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard keeps on growing. Its troops watch over nuclear facilities, its rocket scientists enlarge Iran’s missile arsenal and its engineers have taken on a rail line as their latest big-ticket project. Could media mogul be next? Sometime early next year, …

SAN DIEGO – A 17-year-old pleaded guilty Friday to killing a Border Patrol agent who was shot eight times while chasing suspected illegal immigrants in the mountains east of San Diego. Christian Daniel Castro Alvarez said he lured Agent Robert Rosas out of his car last July 23 and struggled …

LOS ANGELES – Immigration agents assigned to track down people who have ignored deportation orders have increasingly arrested immigrants with criminal records during the past year, new data show. Data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement show a shift from the prior three years, when more than 70 percent of immigrants …

This is a rush transcript from “On the Record,” September 3, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. MARTHA MACCALLUM, FOX NEWS GUEST HOST: (INAUDIBLE) history repeats itself, and President Obama is set to address a joint session of Congress. He’s going to …

STOCKHOLM – A Swedish TV program to be aired Wednesday claims that top Vatican officials knew that an ultraconservative British bishop was a Holocaust-denier when his excommunication was lifted in January. The program, which was obtained by The Associated Press prior to broadcast, could add new fuel to the controversy …

Sliding around a little too much this winter? Investing in some good winter tires might seem like a pricey proposition, but it could pay off. Winter tires are usually more expensive than all-season radials, but since you’ll only be using your winter treads for a few months a year, they’ll …

I can’t tell you the number of folks I talked to and listened to in Washington who equated health care reform with civil rights struggles and compared being on the wrong side of health care with being on the wrong side of history and the opposite side of the angels. …

Hugh Jackman Makes Magic in NYC | Jacko’s Dad Wants Back in Good Graces | J. Fred Muggs Rolls in Grave; Krallin’ to the USA; Poliwood Hugh Jackman Makes Magic in NYC It looks like Hugh Jackman is going to be hanging around New York for a while — at …