LONDON – British police said three people were killed Saturday in an avalanche on a ountain in the Scottish Highlands. The Northern Constabulary said the three died on Buchaile Etive Mor, a mountain near Fort William in northwest Scotland. A fourth person had an injured shoulder, police said. In all, …

GENEVA – Israeli soldiers used an 11-year-old Palestinian boy as a human shield during the war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, a group of U.N. human rights experts said Monday. The Israeli Defense force ordered the boy to walk in front of soldiers being fired on in the Gaza …

ASHEVILLE, N.C. – A North Carolina Girl Scout’s plan to use the Internet to generate more cookie sales is crumbling. Eight-year-old Wild Freeborn posted a YouTube video in the hopes of selling enough boxes to send her troop to summer camp. But scouting officials said it violated a ban on …

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Saudi authorities have beheaded a citizen convicted of murdering his father following a dispute. An Interior Ministry statement says the man was executed Monday in the holy city of Medina after being convicted for shooting to death his father after a dispute. It did not explain …

Patients who got infusions of their own bone marrow stem cells after a heart attack experienced measurably better heart function, U.S. researchers reported on Monday. The more cells the patients got, the better they did, privately held biotech company Amorcyte told a meeting of the American College of Cardiology. “These …

Two men charged with the murders of British honeymooners Ben and Catherine Mullany in Antigua appeared in court Monday. Kaniel Martin, 22, and Avie Howell, 18, were remanded in custody by a magistrate on the Caribbean island. They are next due to appear on March 25. The two men are …

Swine flu has sickened about 50 million Americans, and killed about 10,000, according to new estimates released by federal health officials on Thursday. That means about 1 in 6 Americans have had the illness, said Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The estimates are …

COMMACK, N.Y. – A 10-year-old suburban New York girl has been suspended for taking peppermint oil to her school and distributing it to other students. The Commack School District says in a statement on its Web Site the oil “is an unregulated over-the-counter drug.” The girl’s mother, Corrine Morton-Greiner, said …

MEXICO CITY – Police in the Mexican border state of Sonora say they have found six decomposing bodies near a highway leading to the Gulf of California resort of Puerto Penasco. Tourists from neighboring Arizona use the highway to reach the resort, widely known as Rocky Point. State police said …

CONAKRY, Guinea – The bodies are missing. Families here have collected the names, addresses and photographs of at least 108 people who were killed when soldiers opened fire on a protest almost three months ago, but whose bodies were never returned. Some were taken to hospital morgues and later removed …