MEXICO CITY – “Hellboy” director Guillermo del Toro says he is unlikely to make another film in Mexico because his father’s kidnapping 10 years ago left him fearing for his safety, a newspaper reported Thursday. Del Toro’s father was eventually released, but the family says it later received death threats. …

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – Former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik has pleaded not guilty to a rewritten indictment in the criminal case against him. Kerik entered the plea Monday in U.S. District Court. The new plea was necessary because federal prosecutors recently added charges against him. The new …

FORT BRAGG, N.C. – Capt. Kyle Walton remembers pressing himself into the jagged stones that covered the cliff in northeast Afghanistan. Machine gun rounds and sniper fire ricocheted off the rocks. Two rounds slammed into his helmet, smashing his head into the ground. Nearby, three of his U.S. Army Special …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden – A police spokesman says surveillance camera footage could help police apprehend a man who opened fire outside a casino and wounded a security guard and two women. Police spokesman Bjorn Engstrom says experts are analyzing photos from the casino and Stockholm Public Transport. The shooter had been …

WASHINGTON – Several medical associations and 13 state attorneys general voiced their opposition Wednesday to a proposed federal rule that they fear would open the door for hospitals and physicians to deny access to contraception. In late August, the Bush administration proposed stronger job protections for doctors and other health …

Giving birth to triplets is nothing new – but when the mother-to-be is nearly 60 – the circumstances are much different. The story is unfolding in France right now where a 59-year-old woman is due to give birth to triplets at a Paris hospital, Agence France-Presse reports. The woman received …

BAGHDAD – A car bomb ripped through a crowded commercial district in a mainly Shiite town north of Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 32 people and wounding 43, Iraqi officials said. The explosion in Dujail was apparently targeting a police station but instead it badly damaged a nearby medical …

WASHINGTON – The chairman of the of Senate Judiciary Committee said Wednesday he does not believe that Dr. Bruce Ivins acted alone in the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks in the U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy was one of the targets of the lethal anthrax-laced letters that killed five and sickened 17 …

LOS ANGELES – Shia LaBeouf’s conspiracy thriller “Eagle Eye” debuted at the top of the weekend box office with $29.2 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. The Paramount-DreamWorks release was the second No. 1 premiere for LaBeouf and director D.J. Caruso, who also teamed on 2007’s hit “Disturbia.” Opening in …

KABUL, Afghanistan – Even after an extra U.S. Army brigade joins the fight against the insurgency here in January, three times that many reinforcements will be needed shortly thereafter, the highest-ranking U.S. general here said Tuesday. Gen. David McKiernan, commander of NATO-led international forces in Afghanistan, told reporters traveling with …