NEW YORK – U.S. stocks fell Tuesday as investors worried that slowing economic growth would hurt corporate profits despite a pause in the Federal Reserve’s two-year campaign of raising interest rates. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 45.79 points, or 0.41 percent, to end at 11,173.59. The Standard & Poor’s …

LONDON – Oscar-nominated actress Keira Knightley disclosed a family history of anorexia Tuesday but said that she doesn’t suffer from an eating disorder. The slender 21-year-old, in London to promote “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest,” rejected suggestions that she suffers from an eating disorder, which surfaced after she …

KABUL, Afghanistan – NATO remains committed to fighting Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan, the alliance’s secretary-general said Thursday, although he acknowledged that recent fighting has slowed down reconstruction efforts. Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer also urged world donors to keep Afghanistan as a top priority. “Development is taking place (and) …

JERUSALEM – The condition of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has been in a coma since suffering a stroke in January, has deteriorated though there was no immediate danger to his life, hospital officials and former aides said Sunday. Sharon, 78, was having a problem with his kidneys …

LONDON – A timeline of the London bomb attacks as they unfolded on Thursday, July 7, 2005: 3:48 a.m. — Blue Nissan Micra rented by Shehzad Tanweer, 22, also believed to be carrying Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30, and Hasib Hussain, 18, seen on video camera outside Leeds, 300 kilometers (185 …

LONDON – Internet service provider Tiscali on Tuesday rebuked demands by British music companies to reveal the names of some of its customers who allegedly used the network to share songs illegally. The British Phonographic Industry trade group said on Monday it had “unequivocal” evidence about 17 of Tiscali’s customers …

BAZOURIYA, Lebanon – The narrow road that leads to this southern Lebanese town is littered with the hulks of rocketed cars, white flags hanging limply from the windows. An Israeli drone whines overhead. The streets are silent and empty but for wary young men who slip quietly out of the …

WASHINGTON – Just try deciphering the Federal Reserve’s policy statements for clues about where interest rates are heading. It can be like trying to make sense of hieroglyphics. Experts are needed to translate the symbols or pictures used in ancient Egypt, and the same is true for Fed-speak. Legions of …

LOS ANGELES – Jack Warden, an Emmy-winning and Academy Award-nominated actor who played gruff cops, coaches and soldiers in a career that spanned five decades, has died. He was 85. Warden, who lived in Manhattan, died Wednesday at a hospital in New York, Sidney Pazoff, his longtime business manager, said …

HURRICANE, Utah – Researchers say they have discovered a new type of cricket in the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument, located in a remote strip of land on the Utah-Arizona border. The cricket was discovered in samples taken from the area last spring by Kyle Voyles, a state of Arizona cave …