ROME (AP) ― Italy became the latest target in Europe’s financial crisis Monday, as soaring borrowing rates intensified pressure on Premier Silvio Berlusconi to resign and let a new government reform the country’s spendthrift ways.Berlusconi batted away reports that he was considering stepping down in favor of early elections, saying they were “without foundation.”But the prospect of financial disaster was real because of Italy’s huge debts and slow growth. Unlike Greece, Ireland and Portugal ― t

BOSTON (AP) ― Norman Ramsey, who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in physics for his research into atomic energy levels that led to the creation of the atomic clock and MRI machines, has died, his wife said.Ramsey died in his sleep at a Wayland nursing home on Friday, Ellie Ramsey said Monday. He was 96.Ramsey, an emeritus professor of physics at Harvard University and longtime Brookline resident, wrote in his autobiography for the Nobel Prize he shared with Hans Dehmelt and Wolfgang Paul that he was

MONROVIA (AP) ― Violence broke out at opposition headquarters, killing at least one person hours before Liberia’s presidential runoff on Tuesday, a vote that tests the West African nation’s fragile peace after a devastating civil war.Despite sharp criticism from the United States, the U.N. and election monitors, opposition leader Winston Tubman kept urging supporters to boycott Tuesday’s runoff.Demonstrators clashed with police in one rally backing the boycott, leaving one young man dead inside

WASHINGTON (AP) ― The United States is increasingly worried by indications that Iran may be on the brink of developing a nuclear weapon, but the latest report on its atomic program from a U.N. watchdog is unlikely to sway the Obama administration from its plan to rely on sanctions and diplomatic pressure, not military threats, to deter Iranian ambitions.Ahead of the release this week of a new report on the Iranian program from the International Atomic Energy Agency, U.S. officials said Monday th

WASHINGTON (AP) ― A woman who said she sought help finding a job from Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain went before television cameras Monday to add her voice to anonymous sexual harassment allegations by three others, accusing the novice politician of reaching under her skirt and pulling her head toward his crotch.Sharon Bialek said she had come forward about the incident in 1997 to provide “a face and a voice” to support other accusers who have so far remained anonymous in their ch

CHILPANCINGO, Mexico, Nov 7, 2011 (AFP) - Mexican police discovered 19 prostitutes, two sacks of marijuana and 100 roosters for cock fighting in a surprise inspection of a jail in the resort city of Acapulco, authorities said Monday.The discovery came as 500 federal officers prepared to transfer som

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sorry, E.T. lovers — the White House says it has no evidence that extraterrestrials exist.The White House made the unusual declaration in response to a feature on its website that allows people to submit petitions that administration officials must respond to if enough

TRIPOLI (AP) ― Some weapons depots in Libya have still not been secured properly, and “much has already gone missing” from unguarded sites, the top U.N. envoy in Libya said in an interview Sunday.Preventing more weapons from being smuggled out of country will be difficult, considering the nature of the vast desert nation’s borders, the envoy, Ian Martin, told the Associated Press.“That has to be a priority now, to secure what still remains in Libya,” he said. “Over time, the international commun