MUMBAI, India – Hospital authorities say a Mumbai nurse who was in a coma for 42 years after a sexual assault while working in a hospital has died. Aruna Shanbaug suffered brain damage and was in a vegetative state after she was raped and strangled by a hospital worker in …

WASHINGTON – Senate Republicans have failed to play “hardball” with Democrats over the filibuster of President Bush’s judicial nominations and other issues, say critics, some of whom suggest Majority LeaderBill Frist (search)doesn’t have what it takes to get the job done. “I think Bill Frist is too weak— it may …

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. – The owners of the mountain cabin where rogue ex-Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner holed himself up during a deadly gun battle with deputies will be paid $200,000. San Bernardino County and Palmdale resident Candace Martin and her son Eric Funnell agreed to the settlement in …

BISHOPVILLE, S.C. – South Carolina corrections officials say they’ve contained a disturbance at a maximum security prison. Corrections Department spokeswoman Stephanie Givens said in a statement that the incident began around noon Thursday at the Lee Correctional Institution in Bishopville. Givens says an officer was trying to search an inmate …

Are fat people the new Middle East? Right now, the fastest eco-boat on the planet, called Earthrace, will attempt to break the “round the world” speed record using fuel made from human fat. The boat took 10 liters of liposuctioned human fat to travel 15 kilometers. From that, I’ve calculated …

Last week, Omar al-Baghdadi, a leader of an Al Qaeda sect in Iraq, was revealed to be a fiction, created to give a foreign-run terror group an Iraqi face. You have to admit: Our enemies are clever bastards and we could learn from them. But it’s Hollywood who should listen …

LOS ANGELES – Despite being proud parents of a new little “Patriot,” the rumor has been that mama Bridget Moynahan is making sure her ex Tom Brady still remains a sidelined father — beginning in the hospital when she was giving birth. But FOXNews.com has learned that Bridget didn’t issue …

So the night before Mike wrote his Grrr column on his fondness for Mark Cuban, my roommate, a die-hard Spurs fan from San Antonio, Texas, was actually telling me what a mean and egotistical person he was. Well, it seems that many of you agreed with her. Straka says he …

Bruce Willis | Michael Jackson | Sex Pistols Bruce Willis Joins the Donner Party Richard Donner is one of those under-appreciated commercial Hollywood directors — he makes blockbuster hits, but gets no respect. Every once in a while, a little magic falls over his material — as in “Superman 2,” …

WASHINGTON – Despite excited chatter and speculation ahead of the November midterm election, open congressional seats ripe for the picking are slim. In fact, the number of retirements announced so far for the midterm race is the lowest since Lyndon Johnson was president. “It’s fallen off dramatically,” said Larry Sabato, …