MADRID – Police say they have arrested a Spanish soldier and his girlfriend for making and distributing videos promoting Islamic jihad, or holy war, and calling for attacks in Spain. A police statement says the couple detained Tuesday in the southern city of Granada have placed at least 11 videos …

Dangling enough dollars in front of smokers who want to quit helps many more succeed, an experiment with hundreds of General Electric Co. workers indicates. Among those paid up to $750 to quit and stay off cigarettes, 15 percent were still tobacco-free about a year later. That may not sound …

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – The gods must be crazy. Why else would they continue tormenting Kratos, a bald warrior who is as brutal as he is well-armed? Sony has unveiled the third and final chapter in its blockbuster “God of War” game franchise, a PlayStation 3 exclusive that finds its …

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Child prostitution is thriving in San Bernardino County. Hundreds of teens selling sex make connections using Internet sites like Craigslist.com, simply standing along a two-mile stretch of Holt Boulevard in Ontario or hooking up at local truck stops, investigators said. A prosecutor and three Ontario officers described …

BOLLIGEN, Switzerland – A woman discovered living in an umbrella-and-tarpaulin shelter in Switzerland was picked up by her sister Wednesday and driven back to her native Germany, 12 years after her disappearance. “I’m so excited,” said the 52-year-old woman who has been identified in the Swiss press as Gabriele Schulze. …

Musicians dressed as Wild West gunslingers and comics dressed as bullfighters, knights and Mexican wrestlers strutted in the annual Mummers Parade, celebrating New Year’s Day and the holiday tradition’s escape from the city’s budget ax. Thousands of people endured temperatures in the low 20s — with a wind chill of …

Al Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden called for a jihad against Israel in a new audiotape posted Wednesday, a recording the White House called an effort to raise money as part of the terror organization’s ongoing propaganda campaign. In a message aimed at stoking anger in the Middle East over …

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican’s relations with Jews risked a new crisis Friday after an excommunicated British bishop — reportedly in line for rehabilitation — said that historical evidence “is hugely against 6 million Jews having been deliberately gassed” during World War II. Two Italian newspapers reported Thursday that Pope …

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A military court has sentenced a second Navy sailor who pleaded guilty to conspiring with a shipmate to beat an Iraqi prisoner. Petty Officer 2nd class Thomas Broadway was sentenced Friday in Jacksonville to 45 days confinement. Broadway was also reduced to the lowest enlisted rank and …

ZEPHYRHILLS, Fla. – Pay no mind to the groans that come with stretching, to hair that is gray or gone altogether. Ignore the cautiousness of their steps and the canes in their hands. These seniors are ready to fight. A rainbow of martial arts belts dangles above the mirror along …