Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez (search) is proud to be in therapy, calling it “an incredible thing” that he helped him discover a different life. Rodriguez told the television show “Extra” in an interview taped to air Wednesday that he was reluctant to go to therapy because “in many ways …

CAIRO, Egypt – Police on Sunday detained about 200 people from the home villages of the three attackers responsible for a bomb blast and tour bus shooting near Cairo (search) tourist sites the day before, authorities said. The records of the detainees, from the villages of al-Ammar and Ezbet al-Gabalawi …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – At least 24 people died and 40 were injured after a car bomb detonated outside a busy market just south of Baghdad (search) on Friday. The explosion ripped through crowds in the town of Suwayra (search). This area 25 miles south of the capital is known to …

BERN, Switzerland – Former Russian Nuclear Energy Minister Yevgeny Adamov (search) was arrested at the request of U.S. officials who have demanded his extradition, a Swiss official said Wednesday. Adamov, a nuclear physicist, was arrested in Bern (search) during a visit Monday, said Folco Galli, spokesman for the Justice Ministry. …

WASHINGTON – The Pentagon’s top general on Sunday defended the treatment of prisoners at the U.S. Navy prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and said the U.S. believes Al Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (search) is wounded, though it’s not known how badly. Gen. Richard Myers (search), chairman of the …

There is “strong evidence” of an association between asthma and complications from a common bacterium known to cause pneumonia, researchers report in The New England Journal of Medicine. Pneumococcal disease is an infection caused by the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae, also known as pneumococcus. The most common types of infection caused …

WASHINGTON – The interim chief of the new National Counterterror Center (search) said Thursday he is stepping down from his post later this year, leaving after the biggest intelligence overhaul in 50 years. In a memo to his staff, John O. Brennan (search) said he had told National Intelligence Director …

WASHINGTON – Moderate senators from both parties are working behind the scenes on a compromise as a battle plays out on the Senate (search) floor over whether President Bush’s judicial nominees should be given a straight confirmation vote in the chamber. Although lawmakers involved in the talks say they are …

WASHINGTON – The government has opened an investigation of more than 1.2 million General Motors Corp. (GM) pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles in 21 states amid questions about the vehicles’ antilock brakes. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (search) said Monday that stopping distances may increase when the brakes …

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