FRESNO, Calif. – Authorities have removed a body that was found enclosed in a glacier off a mountain in the Sierra Nevada. The ice-enclosed body is believed to be that of an airman who was lost when his plane crashed in World War Two (search). Officials with the Fresno County …

NEW YORK – Time Warner Inc.’s (TWX) AOL Internet division this week laid off more than 700 employees, or less than 5 percent of its global work force, amid ongoing efforts to cut costs, the company said Wednesday. Most of the cuts came from AOL’s dial-up service operations, the company …

ELMWOOD PLACE, Ohio – Police were searching Monday for a man who allegedly drove his car into a crowd of people on a sidewalk, killing one and injuring five, after getting into a fight about a soccer match. Rey Serrano (search), 19, of Elmwood Place, drove his Lincoln Town Car …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Insurgents determined to wreck Iraq’s constitutional referendum killed more than 40 people and wounded dozens in a series of attacks Tuesday, including a homicide car bomb that ripped apart a crowded market in a town near the Syrian border, police said. U.S. and Iraqi officials have repeatedly …

The area stretching across Pakistan (search) into India (search) and Afghanistan (search) is a hotbed for seismic activity that erupts each time the Indian subcontinent slams into Asia. But it’s the shallow faults that make these temblors so deadly. Saturday’s magnitude-7.6 quake, centered just outside Pakistan’s capital, was about six …

SAN JOSE, Calif. – There’s a new player in the lucrative market of semiconductors that power everything from cars and game consoles to medical equipment and supercomputers. P.A. Semi Inc. is set to emerge Monday after working the last two years in stealth mode, growing from a tiny team of …

LONDON – Government prosecutors are advising police in their investigation of British supermodel Kate Moss’ (search) cocaine use, the Crown Prosecution Service said Friday. Scotland Yard sent case papers to prosecutors, asking for advice on whether there was enough evidence or sufficient public interest to charge Moss, said Russell Hayes, …

Sometimes, I feel as if I’m the only person out there without an iPod. Rather, I’m the proud owner of an Archos Jukebox 6000 (search). I bought it more than four years ago, shortly before Apple Computer Inc. released its first iPod. My Jukebox can do most of what iPods …

Eating a diet high in red or processed meats may raise the risk of pancreatic cancer by almost 70 percent, according to a major new study. But the culprit may not be the saturated fat that usually is found in these meats. Instead, researchers suggest that cooking methods, such as …

WASHINGTON – It was billed as a conversation with U.S. troops, but the questions President Bush asked on a teleconference call Thursday were choreographed to match his goals for the war in Iraq and Saturday’s vote on a new Iraqi constitution. “This is an important time,” Allison Barber, deputy assistant …