SEOUL, South Korea – South Korean officials held rare talks Thursday in North Korea on the fate of a joint industrial complex amid rising tensions over Pyongyang’s recent nuclear test and the likelihood of new U.N. sanctions against the communist state. South Korea also was expected to demand the release …

KALKASKA, Mich. – The father of a Michigan man who believes he was snatched from his real parents in New York half a century ago called the speculation “a bunch of foolishness.” John Barnes has long suspected the couple who raised him were not his biological parents, and now he’s …

A second autopsy conducted by a private pathologist on Michael Jackson’s body was completed Saturday, the Los Angeles Times reported, at the family’s request. Jackson’s family sought the autopsy through a private expert after the Los Angeles Coroner’s Office said Friday that its autopsy had yet to determine a cause …

WASHINGTON – Officials say a Washington Metro system subway train crashed into the back of another at a rail yard, injuring three workers. D.C. Metro said in a Sunday news release that the injuries were minor and not life-threatening. No passengers were on board. Metro says a six-car train was …

BAGHDAD – Three jailed suspects in Oct. 25 bombings that killed more than 150 people in Iraq said they filmed the targeted buildings before the attack and escorted the car bombs in a convoy into Baghdad, according to confessions shown on Iraqi television Sunday. The men, who were seated and …

BRESCIA, Italy – Pope Benedict XVI made a one-day pilgrimage Sunday to northern Italy to pay tribute to Paul VI, his predecessor who made him a cardinal. Thousands held umbrellas or pulled jackets tightly about them as a chilly rain fell during Benedict’s Mass in Paul VI Square outside the …

BILLINGS, Mont. – A 58-year-old Wyoming man accused of rape and other sex crimes against children in that state starting three decades ago is being held in the Yellowstone County jail in Billings. Marvin Lynn Tilley, who is reported to have lived in Casper, and Greeley, Colo. as he avoided …

SHREVEPORT, La. – A vacant house in Shreveport that served as the backdrop for four homicides in two years had been reduced to a mound of rubble by city order. A homeless man was gunned down inside the house. The slaying of a 42-year-old man was preceded by the deaths …

MELBOURNE, Australia – Formerly conjoined Bangladeshi twins separated this week in a marathon surgery will remain in the care of a humanitarian group for at least two years, the organization’s CEO said Friday. The Children First Foundation, which brought Trishna and Krishna to Australia for the surgery, will continue to …

TUCSON, Ariz. – Authorities say a former high-ranking U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who was stationed in Mexico before retiring in 2007 has been arrested on suspicion of cocaine smuggling. Richard Padilla Cramer was arrested Friday at his home in Green Valley, Ariz., 25 miles south of Tucson. He …