This is a rush transcript from “The O’Reilly Factor,” March 12, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. Watch “The O’Reilly Factor” weeknights at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET! BILL O’REILLY, HOST: In the “Kelly File” segment tonight: You may remember it …

VIENNA, Austria – A man who allegedly held his daughter captive for 24 years and fathered her seven children said his family led a “completely normal family life,” the Daily Mail reported. Josef Fritzl told an Austrian psychologist he was trying to protect his daughter Elisabeth from herself. ‘It was …

PLZEN, Czech Republic – Order a beer at a restaurant or bar, and unless you’ve requested an ale, porter or stout, you’ll probably be served the clear, golden brew behind our most familiar brands: Pilsner. And this is its ancestral home. Mugs of frothy beer served in this cobblestone-studded city …

This is a rush transcript of “Special Report With Bret Baier” from December 9, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: The Senate made critical progress last night with a creative new framework that I believe will …

JERUSALEM – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has again asked moderate opposition leader Tzipi Livni to join his government. The Haaretz newspaper reports Friday that if Livni refuses, Netanyahu will try to fragment her Kadima Party and absorb some of its lawmakers into his Likud Party. Livni says she won’t be …

MADRID – A bill to ban bullfighting in the Spanish region of Catalonia cleared its first hurdle Friday as legislators mulled a measure to reject a cultural pillar of traditional Spain. Catalans and their regional capital, Barcelona, consider themselves a country within a country, with their own language and substantial …

BAGHDAD – Iraq deployed troops Saturday to monitor an oil well seized by Iranian forces along the disputed border between the two countries, an Iraqi official said, as Baghdad demanded once again that Iran withdraw. The diplomatic standoff began late Thursday, when Iranian forces reportedly crossed into Iraq and seized …

Surgeons said some “risky” kidney transplants proved to be successful, the BBC News reported. The kidneys transplanted into five patients at the University of Maryland’s School of Medicine in Baltimore were “riddled” with cancer, but doctors decided to use the kidneys so the patients – who had end-stage renal failure …

RANGOON, Burma – An American on trial for secretly entering the house of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been hospitalized after suffering seizures, hospital sources said Tuesday. John Yettaw, 53, was admitted to Rangoon’s main hospital Monday, but his condition is improving, according to the sources who spoke …

ROME – Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi made one of his strongest denials yet in a scandal over alleged relationships with young women, insisting on Friday he has nothing to hide and nothing to apologize for. Berlusconi responded to apparent criticism from his daughter, Barbara, who said in an interview with …