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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Saudi security forces stormed a suspected Al Qaeda hideout in the country’s capital early Friday, killing six militants and arresting a seventh after an exchange of gunfire, the interior ministry said. One policeman was also killed in the clashes, the ministry said in a statement. The …

BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro – War crimes fugitive Gen. Ratko Mladic, accused of genocide and crimes against humanity stemming from the Bosnian war, has been located and authorities are negotiating his surrender, a top state security official said Tuesday. Mladic was located but “he has yet not been arrested,” the official, who …

NEW ORLEANS – Hauling everything he owned in a plastic garbage bag, Darryl Travis walked out of the chandeliered lobby of the Crowne Plaza, joining the exodus of Hurricane Katrina refugees evicted from their hotel rooms across the country Tuesday. The occupants of more than 4,500 government-paid hotel rooms were …

CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh – A fire raged through a Bangladesh textile mill, killing at least 51 people late Thursday in the three-story building inside an industrial park, officials said. The fire injured more than 150 workers, 82 of whom were hospitalized, doctors at Chittagong Medical College Hospital said. Most victims were …

MIAMI – Florida lawmakers agreed Wednesday to shut down the state’s juvenile boot camp system and pour more money into a less militaristic program for dealing with juvenile offenders. The sheriff-run boot camps have been under scrutiny since the January death of a 14-year-old boy who had been kicked and …

The following is a transcription of the April 22, 2006 edition of “FOX News Watch”, that has been edited for clarity: ERIC BURNS, HOST: It’s time now for our “Quick Takes on the Media.” Headline No. 1: “Fairness or Double Standard?” Duke lacrosse players Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann were …

Want Greta’s blog delivered directly to your e-mail box? Click here to sign up! Check out the pictures posted on today’s blog. They are pics of the aftermath of those tornadoes that violently smacked Tennessee recently. They were taken by my colleague, Shayla Bezdrob, who has posted lots of her …

ROME – Judges began checking tens of thousands of contested ballots Thursday, as Italian politics was thrown into turmoil after Premier Silvio Berlusconi‘s demand for a recount of rival Romano Prodi‘s narrow parliamentary election victory. Official returns gave Prodi’s center-left coalition the majority in both houses of parliament in the …

JERUSALEM – Israel’s leaders held the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority responsible for the deadliest homicide bombing in 20 months but stopped short Tuesday of branding it an “enemy entity” or ordering a large-scale military operation. Interim Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and key Cabinet ministers instead revoked the Israeli residency rights …

This year may be the first in which life expectancy is greater for the world’s women than for men, even in the poorest countries. Researchers making that prediction include Anna Barford, a research fellow at England’s University of Sheffield. “We will never know with certainty the exact year in which …