Researcher: Faint writing seen on Shroud of Turin
ROME (AP) -- A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus....

Museum: Galileo's fingers, tooth are found
ROME (AP) -- Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, an Italian museum director said Friday....

Campaigner against hate crimes killed in Moscow
MOSCOW (AP) -- Russian prosecutors say an anti-hate crimes campaigner has been shot and killed in Moscow....

Fight is on between pro-fish camp, mine defenders
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- The fight is on between backers of an Alaska mine being developed near the world's most productive wild salmon streams and 13 Seattle restaurants....

Argentina forces dirty war orphans to provide DNA
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- Valuing truth over the right to privacy, Argentina's Congress has authorized the forced extraction of DNA from people who may have been born to political prisoners slain a quarter-century ago - even when they don't want to know their birth parents....

Kidnapped Britons say Somali pirates may kill them
LONDON (AP) -- A retired British couple snatched from their yacht by Somali pirates said in an interview broadcast Friday they fear they could be killed within a week or handed to a terrorist group if a ransom demand is not paid....

Gardner-Webb defeats Montreat 89-62
BOILING SPRINGS, N.C. (AP) -- David Brown scored 15 points in 16 minutes off the bench and Gardner-Webb defeated Montreat 89-62 on Monday night....

Floods devastate UK Lake District, much of Ireland
COCKERMOUTH, England (AP) -- Raging floods engulfed northern England's picturesque Lake District on Friday following the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in Britain, killing a police officer and trapping dozens in their swamped homes....