A combination of two new-generation cancer drugs modestly delayed the time it took for cancer to worsen in a study of 300 women with very advanced disease who had stopped responding to other treatments. It was the first test of these two highly targeted drugs, Herceptin and Tykerb. Both aim …

A 22-year-old man wanted in connection with the brutal murder of a disabled senior citizen in Florida was found panhandling with a missing 15-year-old girl and arrested. Toby Lee Lowry was picked up Saturday in El Paso, Texas, along Interstate 10 with the teen, Morgan Amanda Leppert, The El Paso …

PRAIA DA LUZ, Portugal – Portuguese police are still gathering evidence in their investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann and have not yet decided whether to bring charges or drop the case, Portugal’s most senior detective said Saturday. The British girl vanished from this resort town in southern Portugal …

LONDON – Police say a suspected gunman has died after trading fire with officers while holed up in a house in a wealthy west London neighborhood. Marksmen from Britain’s Metropolitan police laid siege to the house in Markham Square in the affluent area of Chelsea for four hours Tuesday after …

A stunned British man looked in his attic — and found a colony of Kosovans living in the roof. The 12 illegal immigrants were sitting on mattresses eating sandwiches. Walls had been knocked down between Lee Bradley’s home and two adjoining properties to create a living space for several families, …

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba – Outside the razor wire that circles the cellblocks, the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay resembles typical small-town America, complete with chain restaurants, baseball diamonds and an ice-cream truck. Only this town has a lot more security. About 10,000 people live on the isolated …

WASHINGTON – A House committee has issued a subpoena for FBI reports from interviews with President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney in the CIA leak investigation. The subpoena to Attorney General Michael Mukasey from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is the latest move by Congress to shed …

Little Macie McCartney was welcomed into the world not once — but twice. Four months into Keri McCartney’s pregnancy, doctors reportedly noticed a tumor growing on the baby’s tailbone. Doctors discovered that the tumor was stealing blood from the fetus and weakening her heart. So, at 25 weeks, surgeons at …

KABUL, Afghanistan – Coalition airstrikes killed 22 militants who were attacking two towns in eastern Afghanistan, and explosions killed two more foreign soldiers in the south, officials said Wednesday. Fighting between Taliban-led militants and security forces is surging, clouding hopes that the six-year, multibillion-dollar effort to stabilize the country will …

Inspired by spiking gas prices and growing concern for the environment, U.S. consumers are showing more interest in hybrid vehicles despite their higher price tag, according to a survey released Tuesday. Seventy-two percent of recent car buyers said they are definitely or probably interested in getting a hybrid for their …