Slovenia's center-left former prime minister Borut Pahor became the country's fourth president Sunday, scoring a comfortable second-round victory despite his support for the government's unpopular austerity measures.With 99.99 percent of ballots counted, Pahor had 67.44 percent of the votes, ahead of the incumbent Danilo Turk with 32.56 percent, the central electoral commission said.The 49-year-old Pahor, who was backed by the center-left opposition Social Democrats (SD), also received the votes

A New Jersey woman has been charged with kidnapping her boyfriend and his young son at knife point and demanding $600 from the boyfriend, authorities say.A police report states Jessica P. Tisdale, 29, of Jersey City is accused of offering the 46-year-old man and his 5-year-old son a ride home from school Monday and taking them to her home where she allegedly held them for 7 hours, the Jersey Journal in Jersey City reported.The newspaper quotes the woman's 14-year-old daughter as telling the man,

British researchers say women are more likely than men to give women's bodies a visual once-over.Researchers at Bristol University came to their conclusions after asking volunteers to examine a range of different images, including pictures of couples in films, The Daily Telegraph reported Friday.They found women spent 61 percent of their time looking at the women in the pictures, and only 39 percent on the men, while men seemed to spend just over half -- 53 percent -- of their time looking at th

Just hours after reality TV star Kim Kardashian gushed about her impressions of Bahrain, riot police fired tear gas to disperse more than 50 hardline Islamic protesters denouncing her presence in the Gulf kingdom.The clashes took place just before Kardashian opened the Bahrain branch of her Millions of Milkshakes shop.An Associated Press journalist saw protesters chanting “God is Great” near the shopping complex in Riffa, some 20 kilometers south of the capital Manama. The demonstrators were cle

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher killed his girlfriend Saturday morning and minutes later, holding a gun to his head, thanked his general manager and coach before shooting himself outside the team's practice complex.Authorities did not release a motive for the murder-suicide, though police said that Belcher and his girlfriend, 22-year-old Kasandra M. Perkins, had been arguing recently. The two of them have a 3-month-old girl who was being cared for by family.Be