NEW YORK – The president of a foundation that co-owns a Manhattan building allegedly linked to a bank accused of supporting Iran’s nuclear program was arrested Friday. Jahedi Farshid, 54, the president of the Alavi Foundation, was charged with obstruction of justice after he tried on Thursday to throw away …

JERUSALEM – Israeli officials say a 17-year-old girl who sneaked into a zoo near Tel Aviv with a friend was attacked by an elephant and hospitalized. An employee of Safari nature park says the couple entered the park before dawn Friday by climbing over a wall and then entering the …

PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. – A federal agent was gunned down outside a Pembroke Pines post office Tuesday, and dozens of police officers are searching for the the shooter. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection special agent was killed after he got into an argument in the parking lot, police spokesman …

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. – The parents of a Marine corporal accused of killing his estranged wife say they stand by their son and believe in him. The Fayetteville Observer reported Thursday that Florian and Lana Wimunc would not talk about their son’s marriage to 24-year-old 2nd Lt. Holley Wimunc or the …

LOS ANGELES – Khloe Kardashian’s stay in jail Friday may have been brief, but it did include a bit of drama: a jailhouse lockdown. The reality TV starlet spent roughly three hours in a Los Angeles area jail for violating probation stemming from a drunk driving arrest last year. Shortly …

NEW YORK – James Bond has two new Bond Girls. Olga Kurylenko and Gemma Arterton will co-star in the latest installment of the 007 franchise opposite Daniel Craig, Columbia Pictures has announced. Craig made his debut as Bond in 2006’s “Casino Royale,” which co-starred French actress Eva Green as Vesper …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Color Bind Many Democrats have been unhappy with the racial overtones in some of the exchanges between the Clintons and Barack Obama. And now one prominent Democrat knows exactly who to blame — Republican candidate Mike Huckabee. House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn …

LONDON – Britain’s government on Wednesday disclosed a once-secret description of “cruel, inhuman and degrading” U.S. treatment of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee, losing a long court battle to keep the material classified. Judges rejected the government’s claim that revealing the information would damage U.S.-British intelligence cooperation. The information disclosed …

NEW YORK – A massive new federal study documents an unprecedented and dramatic decrease in incidents of serious child abuse in the U.S., especially sexual abuse. Experts hailed the findings as proof that crackdowns and public awareness campaigns had made headway. An estimated 553,000 children suffered physical, sexual or emotional …

GEORGETOWN, Del. – A former Georgetown high school teacher has been sentenced to five years in prison for having sex with a 15-year-old student. Twenty-seven-year-old John Thompson was a highly regarded social studies teacher at Sussex Central High School until his arrest last summer. Superior Court Judge Richard Stokes sentenced …