A Alabama judge ordered a man to serve three days in jail for contempt of court for wearing so-called saggy pants.Twenty-year-old LaMarcus D. Ramsey was in Autauga County Circuit Court on Tuesday to enter a plea on a charge of receiving stolen property.Circuit Judge John Bush told Ramsey his blue jeans were sagging too low and gave him the three-day stint. The judge told Ramsey to buy pants that f

MOSCOW (AP) -- A large opposition faction stormed out of Russia's parliament on Wednesday to protest Vladimir Putin's refusal to look into claims of vote-rigging in a mayoral election that has sparked nationwide anger.Putin, who returns for a third term as Russian president on May 7, told the Duma he had no authority over local elections and suggested that critics go to court instead to contest th

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Prime Minister Lucas Papademos on Wednesday called a general election in Greece for May 6, after his coalition government pushed through landmark financial relief deals that rescued the country from the threat of bankruptcy but doomed recession-hit Greeks to greater hardship.``The main goals of our government were achieved,'' Papademos told a Cabinet meeting, according to a

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) -- Two massive earthquakes triggered back-to-back tsunami warnings for Indonesia on Wednesday, sending panicked residents fleeing to high ground in cars and on the backs of motorcycles. No deadly waves or serious damage resulted, and a watch for much of the Indian Ocean was lifted after a few hours.Women and children cried in Aceh, where memories are still raw of a 2004 tsunami that killed 170,000 people in the province alone. Others screamed ``God is great'' as they p

ADEN (AFP) ― At least 133 people were killed in 48 hours of clashes pitting Yemeni soldiers backed by tribesmen against al-Qaida militants, officials said on Tuesday, as the extremists vowed to retake a strategic town.At least 124 people were killed in battles in the southern town of Loder in Abyan province, sparked when militants linked to al-Qaida raided an army barracks there on Monday.“One hundred and twenty-four people were killed in two days” of clashes around the city of Loder which is be

Europe‘s human rights court ruled Tuesday that Britain can send a radical Muslim cleric and four other suspects to the United States to face terrorism charges in a case that has been closely watched as an indicator of whether tough U.S. prisons could influence extradition policy.The court said Britain would not violate EU human rights rules by extraditing the suspects, who could face life sentences in a maximum-security prison.The long-running legal battle centered on Mustafa Kamal Mustafa, also

Envoys were to meet here Tuesday to prepare for a high-level meeting of the Diplomatic Quartet aimed at reviving Israeli-Palestinian peace talks that stalled in 2010 just after they started.The envoys were in Washington to lay the groundwork for a meeting Wednesday of the top diplomats of the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said.“We do anticipate that there will be a Quartet statement at the conclusion of that meeting

Police in Ohio said a robber showed his ID to a store clerk before pulling out a handgun and demanding the money from the register.Xenia police said Hanson Price, 21, showed his driver's license to the clerk at the United Dairy Farmer's on West Second Street just after midnight March 30 to purchase a 59-cent Black and Mild Cigar and paid with a $1 bill before drawing his 9mm Lugar handgun and dema

The Philippine government says its largest warship is engaged in a standoff with Chinese surveillance vessels that blocked it when it attempted to arrest Chinese fishermen anchored at a South China Sea shoal where both sides claim sovereignty.Foreign Secretary Albert Del Rosario on Wednesday summoned Chinese Ambassador Ma Keqing to resolve the dangerous impasse diplomatically. His office said in a