BANGUI, Central Africa Republic – The United Nations says that armed groups in Central African Republic have agreed to release any children they are holding and not to recruit child soldiers. U.N. Children’s Agency representative Mohamed Malick Fall said Tuesday that this is a major step forward though challenges remain, …

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Emirates airline says Sir Maurice Flanagan, the first managing director of the carrier who helped it get off the ground three decades ago, has died. The Dubai-based airline Flanagan was instrumental in launching now ranks as the Middle East’s biggest carrier. It said Thursday the …

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Malaysian police say 1,018 Rohingyas and Bangladeshis have landed illegally on a beach in a northern resort island and all have been detained for processing. Langkawi island police chief Jamil Ahmed says they were believed to have come in three boats. He said Monday that police …

DOHA, Qatar – Women won two of the 29 seats up for grabs on Qatar’s municipal council, the only directly elected body in the small but wealthy Gulf nation. Election supervisory committee chairman Maj. Gen. Ibrahim Majid al-Khulaifi announced the election winners on Thursday. He says nearly 70 percent of …

Hi, I’m Bill O’Reilly. Thanks for watching us tonight. This could be one of the best Factor’s ever, so let’s get right to it. Arnold Schwarzenegger (search)is standing by, and we’ll have a very short Talking Points Memo before we get to him. Now last week, I chided The New …

TULSA, Okla. – A Tulsa oral surgeon has given up his license and sold his practice after he was accused of being under the influence of medications when he pulled the wrong teeth from two patients and operated on the wrong side of a patient’s mouth, officials said. The Tulsa …

A University of Oklahoma fraternity will close and its members have been suspended after video purportedly showing some of its members taking part in a racist chant was posted online late Sunday. The national organization of Sigma Alpha Epsilon said that an investigation had verified the contents of the 10-second …

TOLEDO, Ohio – Chunks of ice breaking up along an Ohio river have pushed up into a cemetery and toppled dozens of headstones. Authorities say some parts of the cemetery near Toledo are covered with pieces of ice stacked 4 feet high. They estimate that about 90 percent of the …

SAVANNAH, Ga. – The Navy has charged seven sailors in connection with the illicit videotaping of female officers aboard a submarine. Documents released Wednesday by the Navy show that the Georgia-based sailors served aboard the USS Wyoming and were charged last month. Three of those sailors also are charged with …

SANTA ANA, Calif. – Preliminary lab results show that a Latin American holiday bread that made dozens of people sick this week in Southern California was laced with a synthetic drug. The Orange County health agency did not identify the drug in a Friday night statement or say how it …