NEW YORK – Sofia Coppola is seven months pregnant with a baby girl, her spokesman, Robert Garlock, confirmed Thursday. The father is boyfriend, Thomas Mars, the singer for the French rock band Phoenix. People magazine reported the pregnancy in May. The 35-year-old director was married to director Spike Jonze for …

A Taliban commander has told Sky News that the militants are for the first time plotting to attack Westerners in Britain and the rest of Europe. In a rare exclusive interview, the commander insisted the militants had stockpiles of weapons and would never give-up exacting revenge from what he called …

WASHINGTON – President Bush personally assured Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Monday that he has no plans to pull troops out and told him to ignore rumors that the United States intended to enforce a deadline for Baghdad to rein in sectarian violence. The president’s pledge came in a 15-minute …

LILONGWE, Malawi – Madonna and her husband took custody of a motherless 1-year-old boy from Malawi on Thursday after filing adoption papers and receiving interim approval from a judge in the impoverished southern African nation. The boy’s father said he was happy for his son, named David, and pleased with …

BEIRUT, Lebanon – Hezbollah and Amal Cabinet ministers resigned from the Lebanese government on Saturday, Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV Station said. The resignation of five Cabinet ministers from Amal and Hezbollah throws Lebanon’s political landscape in chaos, though it does not automatically bring down the government. But by quitting, the five …

TEHRAN, Iran – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday criticized the United Nations Security Council over its efforts to impose sanctions on Iran because of its nuclear program. “It is most embarrassing that the U.N Security Council, which should be the defender of nations’ security and rights, threatens countries pursuing nuclear …

PORTLAND, Maine – The Democratic lawyer who donned an Usama bin Laden costume replete with toy assault rifle to make a political statement on Halloween is facing additional charges over the incident, officials said Wednesday. Tom Connolly, 49, of Scarborough, faces new charges of terrorizing and reckless conduct, in addition …

KABUL, Afghanistan – NATO forces struck a suspected insurgent compound in rare violence near Kabul and battles continued Saturday in the area, NATO said, while Afghan authorities reported a dozen people dead in attacks. NATO troops backed by warplanes launched a raid Friday north of Kabul, hitting a compound with …

WASHINGTON – Signs of warming continue in the Arctic with a decline in sea ice, an increase in shrubs growing on the tundra and rising concerns about the Greenland ice sheet. “There have been regional warming periods before. Now we’re seeing Arctic-wide changes,” James Overland, an oceanographer at the Pacific …

KHARTOUM, Sudan – A top adviser to Sudan‘s president said Thursday there was no problem with including U.N. troops with African soldiers in a mixed Darfur peacekeeping force, but that the levels of each side still had to be worked out in a key deal aimed at ending violence in …