ATHENS, Greece – Prosecutors are investigating whether nearly 300 antiquities seized from a villa on a remote island last week are connected to an ongoing dispute between the Greek government and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the culture minister said Tuesday. Last week’s discovery was one of the biggest …

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – One boy wanted to become an astronaut so he could go into space and find his daddy in heaven. One girl lost her father, a hero firefighter, before she was even born. The tales of pain and devastation wrought by the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were told …

NEW YORK – World oil prices surged nearly 4 percent Tuesday after militants said they would broaden attacks on Nigeria’s oil industry, threatening to cut deeper into supplies from the world’s eighth-biggest exporter. U.S. crude rose $2.39, or 3.7 percent, to $66.31 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange …

SAN DIEGO – A Marine captain has been told he will be criminally charged in connection with the killing of 24 civilians in the Iraqi town of Haditha, his attorney said Monday. Capt. Lucas McConnell, 31, was told by his commanding officer that he will be charged with dereliction of …

ONTARIO, California – A substitute elementary school teacher was charged with lewd and lascivious acts involving a 10-year-old girl, and police said he claimed to have molested more than 100 students. Eric Norman Olsen, 28, told detectives Friday that he molested between 100 and 200 elementary school students since becoming …

NEW YORK – An indicator of future economic activity dipped in July, a private research group reported Thursday, in the latest sign that economic growth is cooling off. The Conference Board, an industry-backed research group based in New York, said its index of Leading Economic Indicators fell 0.1 percent in …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – The U.S. command announced Saturday that it was sending 3,700 troops to Baghdad to try to quell the sectarian violence sweeping the capital, and a U.S. official said more American soldiers would follow as the military gears up to take the streets from gunmen. The 172nd Stryker …

This is a partial transcript from “Your World with Neil Cavuto,” July 20, 2006, that was edited for clarity. NEIL CAVUTO, HOST: We do want to let you know, if you just tuned in here, that we have heard from Hezbollah that it is not interested in releasing those Israeli …

LOS ANGELES – A home-schooled teenager named Bree is heating up the Internet like few others today. But is she for real? Or is she merely an actress? If so, who are the people responsible for mounting the charade? This Internet whodunit centers on 16-year-old Bree’s “Lonelygirl15” online video diaries, …

LOS ANGELES – For most celebrities, getting smacked with a DUI is an instant image crisis. For Paris Hilton, it could be a career boost. “Paris Hilton being arrested just makes her more famous,” said veteran publicist Michael Levine. “She has devoted her entire adult life to appearing to be …