Chaos within Athens’ leadership lingers on as negotiations to name new P.M. crumbleATHENS (AP) ― Greece’s laborious power-sharing talks disintegrated into chaos Wednesday, with political leaders failing to name a new prime minister who will take over from George Papandreou and head an interim government, despite three days of negotiations.The latest setback in more than a week of political turmoil came less than an hour after Papandreou made a televised address to the nation saying Greece’s poli

TORONTO (AP) _ Toronto's zoo is splitting up a pair of male penguins whose affection has drawn headlines and jokes about ``Brokeback Iceberg.''The African penguins have shared the nest they built since coming to the zoo about a year ago. But since the penguins are an endangered species, zoo official

STATE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania (AP) _ A child sex abuse case has brought down one of the most renowned coaches in American sports.Joe Paterno, who is 84 years old and has coached Penn State's college football team for more than 45 years, said Wednesday he will retire at the end of this season, bringing

ROME (AP) ― Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi conceded Tuesday he no longer had the support to govern and announced he would resign like his Greek counterpart, becoming the biggest political casualty yet of the European debt crisis.Berlusconi promised to leave office after Parliament passes economic reforms demanded by the European Union to keep Italy from sinking into Europe’s debt mess. He came to the decision hours after a vote on a routine piece of legislation made it clear he no longer comm

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Consumer Reports, the influential magazine for product reviews, gave a thumbs up to Apple’s new iPhone on Tuesday after declining to recommend the previous model because of reception problems.“Apple’s newest smartphone (the iPhone 4S) performed very well in our tests, and while it closely resembles the iPhone 4 in appearance, it doesn’t suffer the reception problem we found in its predecessor,” Consumer Reports said.“In special reception tests of the iPhone 4S that duplicated

BEIJING (AP) ― China’s stubbornly high inflation fell in October, giving Beijing room to stimulate the world’s No. 2 economy amid weak U.S. and European growth.Consumer prices rose 5.5 percent from a year earlier, down from September’s 6.1 percent, government figures showed Wednesday. Politically volatile food costs rose 11.9 percent but that was down from the previous month’s 13.4 percent.The decline gives China’s leaders the leeway to reverse interest rate hikes and other curbs imposed to cool

Stripped-down sounds inspire wave of youth fed on a steady diet of prefabricated popSouth Korea’s punk scene has been in steady decline over the last few years with many clubs in Seoul closing down, but the phoenix of Korean punk music may be rising from the ashes. Last month, at Club Spot near Hongdae, a university campus neighborhood in western Seoul, the compilation album “Them and Us” was released showcasing 11 local punk bands who aim to give the Korean scene a shakeup.“Them and Us” featur

PARIS (AP) ― The French president’s overheard remark to President Barack Obama that Israel’s prime minister is a “liar” laid bare escalating international frustration at deadlocked peace efforts ― and left all three world leaders looking blemished.Obama, heard through an interpreter, responded, “I have to work with him every day.”Some Israelis felt French President Nicolas Sarkozy uttered out loud what many think in private about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Others were shocked, an

There are indications of nuclear weapons testing, warhead and detonator development, IAEA saysVIENNA (AP) ― The U.N. atomic agency said for the first time Tuesday that Iran is suspected of conducting secret experiments whose sole purpose is the development of nuclear arms, an assessment that draws on 1,000 pages of intelligence and nearly a decade of research.The report by the International Atomic Energy Agency is its most unequivocal yet suggesting that Iran is using the cover of a peaceful nuc

LOS ANGELES (AP) ― An asteroid as big as an aircraft carrier zipped by Earth on Tuesday in the closest encounter by such a massive space rock in more than three decades.Scientists ruled out any chance of a collision but turned their telescopes skyward to learn more about the object known as 2005 YU55.Its closest approach to Earth was pegged at a distance of 325,088 kilometers at 6:28 p.m. EST. That’s just inside the moon’s orbit; the average distance between Earth and the moon is 384,633 kilomet