MOSCOW – A suspicious fire combined with a blocked exit turned the women’s ward of a Moscow drug treatment hospital into a deathtrap Saturday as flames and smoke overcame patients. At least 45 women trapped behind a locked gate were killed in the deadliest fire in the Russian capital in …

DALLAS – Travel-reservations system operator Sabre Holdings (TSG), parent of the online service Travelocity.com, said Tuesday it is being acquired by private-equity groups for about $4.5 billion. Silver Lake Partners and Texas Pacific Group said they will pay $32.75 per share in cash for the company, which connects airline, hotel …

DARNESTOWN, Md. – It was quite a year. We road-tested a boatload of cars — everything from a tiny Honda Fit (what a name!) to a Porsche Cayman S. Then it was off to the Northwest for two days in beautiful Oregon behind the wheels of three Ferraris. We got …

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI gave thanks at a New Year’s Eve service Sunday that he remained safe throughout his Turkish pilgrimage, which had been fraught with security worries, and he prayed for peace and justice in the world in 2007. “That which is impossible for men, becomes possible …

A timeline of controversies involving Rosie O’Donnell: Dec. 20, 2006 — O’Donnell vs. The Donald Rosie says the billionaire’s news conference with Miss USA Tara Conner, whose title was in jeopardy because of alleged wild partying, had annoyed her “on a multitude of levels” and that the twice-divorced Donald had …

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LOS ANGELES – In a deal with prosecutors, rapper Master P pleaded no contest Monday to a misdemeanor gun charge and was placed on probation for three years. The 38-year-old “Dancing with the Stars” contestant, whose real name is Percy Miller, was arrested last year with his brother, Vyshonn Miller, …

CARACAS, Venezuela – President Hugo Chavez, long critical of big transnational companies, is promoting free open-source software as an alternative to market-dominating Microsoft Corp. (MSFT). Venezuela’s science and technology ministry recently held the Latin American Free Software Installation Fair, an event promoting the use of the open-source Linux operating system …

WASHINGTON – Sen. Paul Sarbanes for the first time Thursday publicly defended the landmark corporate financial legislation he co-authored against criticism that its regulations hurt U.S. markets. Sarbanes, Maryland’s senior Democratic senator who plans to retire at the end of his current term, accepted a lifetime achievement award from the …

NEW YORK – A beautifully preserved fossil from southern Germany raises questions about how feathers evolved from dinosaurs to birds, two paleontologists argue in a study published Thursday. The 150 million-year-old fossil is a juvenile carnivorous dinosaur about 2½ feet long that scientists named Juravenator, for the Jura mountains where …