The “Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood” season finale is drawing near and causing quite a stir (what with Candy Spelling’s open letter to TMZ chastising her daughter for pimping out her grandkids on TV). But if you’re lamenting the loss of a good reality couple while they’re on hiatus, …

Sometimes, you can come in second and still win the game. At least that’s how many analysts see the search engine battle among Google, Yahoo and Microsoft’s new Bing, the last of which has steadily been gaining market share thanks to a relentless ad blitz. If Microsoft displaces second banana …

NEW YORK – An exuberant crowd of nearly 2,000 packed New York City’s Hammerstein Ballroom on Tuesday night ostensibly to voice their support forSen. John Kerry (search), butPresident Bush (search)had the dubious distinction of being the man of the hour. From hipsters to professionals to aging hippies, the audience was …

OK, I’m warning you right off: What I’m about to say will tick you off — some of you a lot. But I figured that since politicians aren’t leveling with you, I will. So, here goes: Social Security (search)is broken and it needs fixing. Either we hike the retirement age, …

ISTANBUL – A Turkish television station says it has obtained video showing three missing British teenagers at an Istanbul bus terminal before they boarded a bus to a city near Turkey’s border with Syria. A Haber news, which has close ties to the government, released the footage, which it says …

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – Cambodia’s U.N.-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal has indicted two more suspects, risking a confrontation with the country’s prime minister, who has warned against adding new defendants. The tribunal announced Tuesday that former Khmer Rouge navy chief Meas Muth and former district commander Im Chaem have been charged …

UNITED NATIONS – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is painting a worsening picture of the war in Syria, citing indiscriminate government bombing and opposition shelling, high civilian casualties and deteriorating humanitarian conditions. In his monthly report to the U.N. Security Council obtained Friday by The Associated Press, the Ban said the …

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis is urging fathers to be more involved in the lives of their children, warning that many problems adolescents run into can be traced to “absentee fathers” who are physically at home but don’t take time to actually be with their kids. Francis has frequently praised …

MANAMA, Bahrain – Bahraini authorities say they have stripped the citizenship of a senior member of the Islamic State militant group and dozens of other people. The Ministry of Interior said Saturday the government revoked the citizenship of 72 Bahrainis as part of its responsibility to “protect the security and …

PARIS – A Polish man who was supposed to have been expelled from France has admitted to kidnapping and killing a little girl in the northern town of Calais after she shot a water pistol at him. Police were questioning the 38-year-old unidentified suspect on Thursday, a day after the …