CHANDIGARH, India – An Indian man freed after spending 35 years in Pakistani prisons for espionage has admitted being a spy, leading the Pakistani minister who organized the release to say it would now be harder to free other prisoners. “I did the duty assigned to me as a spy …

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA rejoiced at a successful nighttime landing that capped an exceptionally long — and successful — mission to the international space station. Endeavour’s touchdown Wednesday night on NASA’s illuminated runway wrapped up a voyage that lasted 16 days and spanned 6.5 million miles. Mission Control immediately …

VIENNA, Austria – The chief U.N. nuclear inspector urged Iran on Monday to stop stonewalling his experts and cooperate over indications it may have tried to make atomic arms under the cover of a civilian nuclear program. A senior Iranian official said such allegations were “fabricated.” But a U.S. envoy …

CHICAGO – Drew Barrymore said Monday she is donating $1 million to help fight hunger. She made the announcement on “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” saying she would give the money to the World Food Program, a U.N. body that delivers millions of tons of food aid to more than 70 …

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. – Bone-white stretches of salt, leached up from the lifeless soil, lay like a shroud over the high desert where a paranoid Charles Manson holed up after an orgy of murder nearly four decades ago. Now, as then, few venture into this alkaline wilderness — …

BAGHDAD – A female homicide bomber blew herself up Monday amid a group of Shiite worshippers near a mosque in Karbala, Iraq, killing at least 39 people and wounding 54, officials said. The worshippers were gathered about a kilometer, or half a mile, from the Imam Hussein shrine, one of …

BRATTLEBORO, Vt. – Voters in two southern Vermont towns passed articles Tuesday calling for the indictment of President Bush and Vice President for violating the Constitution. More symbolic than substantive, the items sought to have police arrest Bush and Cheney if they ever visit Brattleboro or nearby Marlboro or to …

TOKYO – One person was stabbed to death and at least seven others injured in a knifing spree at a shopping mall in eastern Japan, police said Sunday. The attack occurred in the city of Tsuchiura, said Kiyoto Ogata, a police spokesman. At least seven shoppers were injured and an …

CHICAGO – Jenny, Shamba, Timbo, Beta and Elaine are zoo gorillas, but they have something in common with millions of women: They have undergone menopause. A study of gorillas at 17 North American zoos, led by Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo, is the first to document gorilla menopause, according to researchers who …

SAO PAULO, Brazil – The Greek billionaire Athina Roussel Onassis married a Brazilian Olympic equestrian Saturday night in a palm-tree lined estate, celebrating with more than 1,000 bottles of champagne. On grounds surrounded by trees and azalea bushes, the 20-year-old granddaughter and heiress of the late shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis …