WASHINGTON – Airlines will soon be required to give the government passenger lists for all U.S.-bound international flights before takeoff, the nation’s homeland security chief said Wednesday. The new regulations, which could be in place by early next year, would make permanent a counterterror measure taken after last week’s foiled …

NEW YORK – Google Inc. (GOOG) reached a deal Monday with the owner of MySpace.com to pay at least $900 million in shared advertising revenue and become the exclusive search provider for the popular online hangout. The deal, which marries the Internet’s leading search engine with the top social-networking site, …

WIMBLEDON, England – A tearful Andre Agassi bowed out of Wimbledon for the final time Saturday, beaten in straight sets by Rafael Nadal. Defending women’s champion Venus Williams also departed, upset in three sets by Jelena Jankovic of Serbia, 7-6 (8), 4-6, 6-4. Playing in his 14th Wimbledon before retirement …

RICHMOND, Va. – Sometime around 1610, archaeologists figure, a thirsty colonist in Jamestown set his brass pistol on the side of a well as he pulled up some water and accidentally knocked the weapon in. It’s one explanation for a cache of rare finds the archaeologists fished up Tuesday from …

LONDON – Sportingbet PLC, an online gambling company, said Thursday its chairman has been detained in the United States, two months after the chief executive of BetOnSports PLC was arrest in the U.S. on racketeering charges. The company said a hearing has been scheduled for Sportingbet Chairman Peter Dicks, though …

If a cop busts you for hauling tail down the highway, you’d better have a good excuse … or at the very least an entertaining one. A Swiss driver caught zooming down the road at 100 mph in eastern Ontario, Canada, went for the latter of the two options when …

The human genome — our DNA — may be more complex than scientists previously thought, with greater ethnic divergence. In a new study published in Nature, researchers report there are fairly large variations between four ethnic groups in 12 percent of the genome. The findings may affect research on the …

As diabetes is rapidly becoming one of the world’s most common diseases, its financial cost is mounting, too, to well over $200 billion a year in the U.S. alone. A new study, released Tuesday exclusively to The Associated Press, puts the total at $218 billion last year — the first …

FORT MYERS, Fla. – A Fort Myers woman who recently turned 103 says she gets happier every year. Gladys Malarkey, born in a small Pennsylvania mining town in 1905, celebrated her birthday Sunday with family and friends. She’s outlived her husband, son and four siblings. But she says she finds …

MINNEAPOLIS – The NFL Players Association filed a lawsuit Thursday to block five of the six player suspensions for violating the league’s anti-doping policy. The suit filed in federal court here is on behalf of Kevin Williams and Pat Williams of the Minnesota Vikings, and Charles Grant, Deuce McAllister and …