HAVANA – President Raul Castro’s government said Friday it is allowing cell phones for ordinary Cubans, a luxury previously reserved for those who worked for foreign firms or held key posts with the communist-run state. It was the first official announcement of the lifting of a major restriction under the …

TINLEY PARK, Ill. – Police in a Chicago suburb have released a series of photos they hope will help lead them to a gunman who killed five women at a Lane Bryant clothing store. The grainy, black-and-white photos were captured from a video camera on a nearby Target store in …

Kentucky officials say they’ve stopped distributing FEMA emergency meals for winter storm survivors that may contain recalled peanut butter. The Federal Emergency Management Agency says some emergency meal kits for storm victims in Kentucky and Arkansas may include packets of peanut butter that are part of a national recall over …

LOS ANGELES – Where is the unlimited supply of diapers, formula and baby wipes? The free van? The brand-new house? Women who give birth to six, seven or eight babies are often showered with dazzling gifts from big corporations, local businesses and strangers. But that is not happening with the …

NEW YORK – Drawn by payments of up to $10,000, an increasing number of women are offering to sell their eggs at U.S. fertility clinics as a way to make money amid the financial crisis. Nicole Hodges, a 23-year-old actress in New York City who has been out of work …

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin knew all the lyrics to Super Trouper, and now you can too! Super trouper beams are gonna blind me But I wont feel blue Like I always do ‘Cause somewhere in the crowd there’s you I was sick and tired of everything When I called …

BAGHDAD – Iraqi officials nullified election results in more than 30 polling stations due to fraud in last month’s provincial balloting, but the cases were not significant enough to require a new vote in any province, the election chief said Sunday. Faraj al-Haidari said final results of the Jan. 31 …

SAO PAULO, Brazil – A U.S. man awaiting trial along with his companion for allegedly sexually abusing children at a nudist colony is denying the charges, a leading Brazilian daily reported Wednesday. In an interview with the Folha de S.Paulo newspaper, Frederic Calvin Louderback said authorities have no proof to …

BEIJING – Gu Gu the panda has struck again, mauling someone who jumped a barrier to retrieve a child’s toy, in his third attack on a visitor at the Beijing zoo. A tourist from China’s Anhui province went over a 4-foot, 7-inch barrier surrounding the panda’s outdoor exercise area Wednesday …

MADRID, Spain – Spain’s Prado Museum has teamed up with Google Earth for a project that allows people to zoom in on the gallery’s main works — even on details not immediately discernible to the human eye. The initiative, announced Tuesday, is the first of its kind involving an art …