LONDON – Kate Moss is back at Burberry. The fashion house scrapped a campaign featuring the supermodel last year following tabloid accusations that she had used drugs. Moss, 32, appears in a white lace trench coat at the center of Burberry’s main autumn-winter 2006-2007 ad, one in a series launched …

MOUNT MERAPI, Indonesia – Two men were found dead Friday in the emergency bunker where they had sought shelter from Indonesia’s erupting Mount Merapi, one in a bathtub where he had tried to escape the heat. The men were helping evacuate a village when a burst of volcanic activity forced …

NEW YORK – The Bush administration and The New York Times are again at odds over national security, this time with new reports of a broad government effort to track global financial transfers. The newspaper, which in December broke news of an effort by the National Security Agency to monitor …

BEIJING – Yahoo Inc. provided Chinese authorities with information about one of its users that was used to jail the man for eight years, an activist group said Thursday. It was the second time Yahoo was accused of helping authorities jail a Chinese user. Yahoo’s Hong Kong unit provided information …

KHARTOUM, Sudan – A military transport plane blew a tire while landing, swerved off the runway and exploded at a southern Sudan airport Saturday, killing all 20 people on board, the army said. The crash occurred at about 8 a.m. in Aweil, 525 miles southwest of Khartoum. “One tire exploded …

A new study details the extent and seriousness of potentially destructive spyware on the Internet, finding that it is still prevalent but declined significantly. University of Washington computer scientists sampled more than 20 million Internet sites looking for programs that can covertly enter computers. While most spyware can be a …

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Jubilant Haitians danced in the streets to celebrate Rene Preval‘s victory in a bitter election marred by fraud charges, calling on the soft-spoken former agronomist to bring jobs and security to their strife-torn nation. It’s a tall order for Preval, who inherits a country where heavily armed …

TUCSON, Ariz. – Two days after officially retiring, former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor starts her new job — teaching law at the University of Arizona. O’Connor will teach a two-week course about the U.S. Supreme Court starting Thursday. The self-described Arizona cowgirl announced her retirement in July but …

LOS ANGELES – In divorce papers, Nick Lachey is seeking spousal support from Jessica Simpson, and he wants his jewelry back. In court papers filed Friday in response to Simpson’s Dec. 16 divorce filing, Lachey cited irreconcilable differences for the dissolution of the three-year marriage. Lachey, 32, also asked for …

SINGAPORE – The airliner market could slump by more than half this year to about 800 plane orders for Airbus and rival Boeing Co. (BA) from a record 2,057 net orders in 2005, Airbus’ top marketing man said. “I think we’d be right around that level,” John Leahy told reporters …