LONDON – Danny and Linda Lee, who are both in their mid-50s, know as much about computers as they do about gangsta rap. Yet Mr and Mrs Lee’s computer at their home in Bedhampton, Hampshire, England, doesn’t run Microsoft Windows. Nor is it a newbie-friendly Mac. “I gave my parents …

TORINO, Italy – Sasha Cohen is saving the drama for the women’s final. A day after making the unusual decision to skip both of her practices, the U.S. champion spoiled a budding soap opera when she showed up for her final warm-up at the Palavela on Thursday morning. Cohen looked …

WINTER HAVEN, Fla. – A boy has been hospitalized in Florida after he fell off a wooden roller coaster at a theme park. A spokeswoman for Cypress Gardens theme park says the boy fell from about 15 feet from the Triple Hurricane roller coaster yesterday. A statement from the park …

WASHINGTON – President Bush on Wednesday authorized freezing the assets of anyone involved in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri. Bush underscored suspicions about Syrian involvement in the Beirut truck bombing that killed Hariri and 20 others. A U.N. investigative commission has linked Syrian and Lebanese …

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Pakistan has no information on where Usama bin Laden could be hiding, a Cabinet minister said Monday, following the broadcast of a new audio tape purportedly from the Al Qaeda chief. Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao refused to comment on the tape, broadcast Sunday by Arab news …

SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea failed to persuade the North to return to stalled international disarmament talks, but both sides agreed Monday to move ahead on an agreement for the North to abandon its nuclear weapons programs. During the Cabinet-level meetings that began Friday in Pyongyang, Seoul had tried …

Cindy Margolis, known as the “Most Downloaded Woman” on the Internet, is following up her win on “Celebrity Cooking Showdown” with a career first — posing nude for Playboy. The mother of three told The Associated Press that she finally agreed to pose for the magazine when they called on …

DES MOINES, Iowa – The mumps epidemic in Iowa continued to widen this week and reached 605 cases by Thursday, public health officials said. Although the highest concentration of cases remained in eastern Iowa, the virus that causes mumps has infected at least one person in half of the state’s …

DHAKA, Bangladesh – Dozens of people were feared to have drowned Friday when a bus packed with about 50 wedding guests plunged into a river in western Bangladesh, news reports said. The bus was boarding a ferry when it toppled over into the Chitra River in Narail district, 70 miles …

DALLAS – Tens of thousands of people banged drums, waved U.S. flags and marched in a protest Sunday urging federal lawmakers to pass immigration reform that would legalize an estimated 11 million undocumented workers. Shouting “Si Se Puede!” — Spanish for “Yes, we can!” — the marchers crammed into the …