BEIRUT – Palestinian officials say a shooting in a refugee camp in southern Lebanon has killed two people and wounded three. Tuesday’s shooting in the Ein el-Hilweh camp comes three days after an official from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party — Talal Baladneh, who was also known as Talal …

LONDON – A group of Scotland Yard officers were suspended after “serious allegations” about their behavior during the arrests of five suspects last year, police said Tuesday. London’s police force did not go into detail, but Sky News television, The Times of London and the Daily Mail newspapers reported that …

SAN FRANCISCO – Internet video leader YouTube Inc.’s losses have been overblown by some analysts, but corporate parent Google Inc. doesn’t mind the misperception, according to a study to be released Wednesday. Technology consultants RampRate Inc. projects YouTube’s operating losses this year at $174.2 million — far below the $470.6 …

RED BANK, New Jersey – An American father who has been trying for five years to get custody of his son in Brazil has returned to the U.S., without his son. David Goldman rushed to Rio de Janeiro this week when a federal judge ruled that he should have custody …

A manhunt was under way and six schools were locked down Wednesday after a shot was fired during a routine traffic stop, local media reported. The gunman reportedly fled the scene after Metro Police pulled a motorist over about 10:10 a.m. Wednesday in the western Las Vegas Valley and a …

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – Honduran authorities said Monday that they have discovered a secret landing strip on property once owned by a murdered congressman suspected of trafficking in precursor chemicals for methamphetamine. Almost any size aircraft would have been able to land on the 980-yard strip found on the cattle ranch …

PARIS – What does it mean to be French? That’s the thorny question the government is putting to its people Wednesday in what’s being billed as a “Great Debate” — set against a backdrop of smoldering unrest in immigrant-heavy suburbs, a movement to ban full Muslim veils, and questions over …

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Saudi authorities have announced the discovery of large quantities of weapons in the capital Riyadh belonging to Al Qaeda terror network. The official Saudi Press Agency quoted an Interior Ministry spokesman Sunday as saying the discovery included 281 assault rifles and 51 ammunition boxes. Gen. Mansour …

SEOUL, South Korea – The former chairman of South Korea’s oldest conglomerate, the Doosan Group, apparently hanged himself, police said Wednesday, following a string of suicides by other high-profile South Koreans. A maid found Park Yong-oh hanged with a necktie at his home, an officer at Seoul’s Seongbuk police station …

TEHRAN, Iran – One of Iran’s prominent pro-reform figures was released on bail Wednesday after spending nearly four months in jail on charges of inciting the country’s postelection unrest, the official IRNA news agency reported. It said Saeed Shariati, one of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi’s campaign aides during the …