A Pakistani youth was starved to death in Greece after being held to ransom by kidnappers for more than two months, the semi-state Athens News Agency reported on Thursday, citing police sources. (MCT)The 17-year-old had been found dead by relatives in January on a street bench in west Athens following a tip-off from the kidnappers who had helped bring him to Greece in the first place.Police said t

NEW YORK (AP) ― The price of gold, which has climbed for years like a blood pressure reading for anxious investors, plunged Wednesday to its lowest level in three months. Gold fell almost $58 to $1,614 per ounce. It has declined 15 percent since September, when it hit a peak of $1,907. It had more than doubled since the financial crisis three years earlier. Surprisingly, the fall came on an ugly day in the stock market ― the Dow Jones industrial average lost 125 points. Last year, a day like Wed

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) ― One of Pakistan’s most notorious extremists taunted the United States during a defiant news conference close to the country’s military headquarters Wednesday, a day after the U.S. slapped a $10 million bounty on him.Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, the 61-year-old founder of the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, has been accused of orchestrating the 2008 attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai that killed 166 people, including six American citizens. He operates openly in Pakistan, gi

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Mitt Romney went on the attack Wednesday against U.S. President Barack Obama, a day after taking command of the race to be the Republican contender in November elections with a triple primary win.In a speech to newspaper editors here, Romney blamed Obama for failing to turn around the U.S. economy quickly enough and took a page from his own critics by accusing the Democratic president of hiding his true intentions from voters.Romney said he was troubled by the president’s rece

DUNDEE, Scotland (Yonhap News) ― Their names represent foggy reminders of what became Britain’s “Forgotten War,” fought in a country little known or understood in the United Kingdom at the time. Today, they are freshly carved into the city of Dundee’s annals of history, presented together to the public for the first time in the city in recognition of their sacrifice more than 60 years ago on the Korean Peninsula, one of the final acts and legacy of the local Korean War Veterans’ Association.As a

The FBI said an attempted bank robber in Chicago was foiled by a teller who told her the bank was closed and she should come back the following day. (MCT)The criminal complaint filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court said Olga Perdomo walked into the Albany Bank and Trust on West Lawrence Avenue around 5 p.m. on March 29 and handed a teller a note demanding "all of your money, no cops, no dye pack,"

New CEO lays off workers in bid to turn around beleaguered Internet companySAN FRANCISCO (AP) ― Yahoo’s turnaround attempt is going to be messy. In his first three months on the job, CEO Scott Thompson has imposed the largest layoffs in the company’s 17-year history, reshaped the board of directors, picked a potentially disruptive fight with a major shareholder and sued Facebook for patent infringement. He says there’s even more upheaval to come. Thompson delivered a painful jolt Wednesday with

An outpost billed as America's smallest town is up for sale this week, complete with its own schoolhouse and gas station, with bidding starting at an enticing $100,000. (MCT)For a sum which would barely buy a one-room apartment in most places -- and a lot less in big cities -- the purchaser of Buford, Wyoming would get over 10 acres of land including a three-bedroom home, a garage, and a cellphone

PHNOM PENH (AFP) ― Southeast Asian leaders on Wednesday called for restraint on the Korean Peninsula as North Korea prepares for a rocket launch that has alarmed countries in the region.“We urged all parties concerned to exercise self-restraint and not to undertake any steps which could lead to the escalation of tensions in the Korean Peninsula,” Association of Southeast Asian Nations leaders said in a joint statement.The leaders at the end of their annual summit in the Cambodian capital Phnom P