UPPER MARLBORO, Md. – Rapper DMX was arrested Tuesday by Arizona police on a laundry list of motor vehicle charges stemming from a January incident where cameras caught him driving 114 mph on a local highway. DMX, whose real name is Earl Simmons, was charged with racing on a highway, …

TOKYO – The Nintendo DS isn’t just fun and games anymore for English students at Tokyo’s Joshi Gakuen all-girls junior high school. The portable video game console is now being used as a key teaching tool, breaking with traditional Japanese academic methods. A giggly class of 32 seventh-graders used plastic …

Two suspected Islamic jihadists were allegedly plotting to set up a separate state for “oppressed” Muslims — inside Scotland. During their terror trial in London, Aabid Khan and Sultan Muhammad, both 23, said they were trying to establish the state as a safe haven for other jihadists that would be …

ST. PAUL ISLAND, Alaska – Huge, whiskered male fur seals called “beach masters” are back on St. Paul Island after swimming a gauntlet of lost or discarded fishing gear floating in the Bering Sea. The males, weighing up to 600 pounds, arrive at the island’s rookeries in May or early …

Researchers may be closer to finding the fountain of youth than Ponce de Leon ever was. In a new study, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers found that red wine may be much more potent than thought in extending human lifespan, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. Red wine’s anti-aging properties …

PERTH, Australia – Heath Ledger’s family evaded scores of photographers Tuesday as they returned to Perth following the Oscar-nominated actor’s death in a Manhattan apartment last month. Several security guards and police officers watched as Ledger’s father, Kim, and several other relatives emerged from their plane after other passengers had …

LONDON – Arriving separately and saying little, Paul McCartney and Heather Mills went to court Monday to reach a financial settlement in their acrimonious, high-stakes divorce. The High Court hearing, called to divide up the former Beatle’s fortune of as much $1.6 billion, had all the elements of high show-biz …

A video of New York Mets pitcher Pedro Martinez and Hall of Famer Juan Marichal at a cockfight was posted this week on YouTube. Martinez and Marichal laugh before releasing the roosters. The two took part as honorary “soltadores,” the word used to describe the person who puts the animal …

WASHINGTON – American Indians would have better access to health care services, including screening and mental health programs, under legislation the Senate passed Tuesday. The bill, approved 83-10, would boost programs at the federally funded Indian Health Service, prompt new construction and modernization of health clinics on reservations, and attempt …

WEST GARDINER, Maine – Police say a corporate jet with two people aboard crashed into the woods in a rural area of West Gardiner this evening shortly after taking off from the Augusta State Airport. Maine State Police spokesman Steve McCausland says searchers with a local fire department are at …