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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Election workers counted ballots into the night as Haitians anxiously awaited the results of presidential elections that officials hailed as a success despite delays that caused many polls to open late. A massive turnout all but overwhelmed electoral officials, who said early results would not be available …

DENVER – A 16-year-old boy was arrested Wednesday after postings on the popular Web site MySpace.com allegedly showed him holding handguns, authorities said. The teen was being held at a juvenile detention center facing three misdemeanor charges of juvenile possession of a handgun, said district attorney spokeswoman Pam Russell. He …

WASHINGTON – An antibiotic and a muscle-related compound are leading candidates for a major government study of whether certain compounds could slow the worsening of Parkinson’s disease. A pilot study, unveiled Thursday, suggests the two — the antibiotic minocycline and creatine, a substance produced in muscle tissue — may have …

NEW YORK – “The Sopranos” will definitely be taken out next year, the show’s creator said, though he can’t say it won’t hit the big screen at some point. “It may be that in two or three or four years I could be sitting around and get an idea for …

LONDON – Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate on Wednesday accused the British Broadcasting Corp. of using taxpayers’ money to build a “digital empire” that would compete with commercial rivals. The BBC, which receives about 3 billion pounds ($5.3 billion) a year in public funding, has announced plans to relaunch its Web …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Namibian authorities are clamping down on journalists trying to follow Brad Pitt, pregnant Angelina Jolie and her two adopted children after the couple asked for some privacy, according to a newspaper report Sunday. South Africa’s Sunday Times said the couple’s security chief gave a local journalist …

LONDON – Two men pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of making a damaging disclosure by leaking a memo which included references to U.S. President George W. Bush talking of bombing Arab broadcaster Al-Jazeera. David Keogh, 49, a former Cabinet Office spokesman, and Leo O’Connor, 42, a former researcher for …

OSWIECIM, Poland – An 80-year-old Auschwitz survivor joined thousands of people who marched in silence Tuesday at the site of the death camp in remembrance of the 6 million victims of the Holocaust. Shimon Peres, the former Israeli prime minister and Nobel peace laureate, led 8,000 people, mostly students, in …

WASHINGTON – The top Democrat on the House ethics committee, Alan Mollohan, will leave the panel — at least temporarily — while he defends his own financial conduct, Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said Friday. Mollohan’s decision comes in an election year when his party is accusing majority Republicans of allowing …

APPLETON, Wis. – A man raising his 18-month-old daughter alone tried to sell the little girl for $7,000 so he could make improvements to his house, police said Friday. The Ashwaubenon man tried to sell his daughter to a Grand Chute couple, who helped authorities in the investigation, Grand Chute …