BANGKOK, Thailand – A bomb exploded at a tea shop Wednesday near a busy market in violence-plagued southern Thailand, killing at least three people and injuring more than a dozen, police said. The bomb was attached to a parked motorcycle and triggered by a mobile phone when a military truck …

NEW YORK – Gold prices surged to a new 25-year high above $725 an ounce Thursday, on inflationary worries expressed by the U.S. Federal Reserve. Persistent concerns about Iran’s nuclear ambitions also lifted the metal, which is viewed as a hedge against currency weakness, inflation and geopolitical instability. The June …

REDMOND, Wash. – While Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) has been beset by delays in its new operating system for personal computers, developers quietly have been working on a new version of another Windows, this one found in everything from sewing machines to sophisticated cell phones. A beta version of the revamped …

This is a partial transcript from “The O’Reilly Factor,” May 16, 2006, that has been edited for clarity. Watch “The O’Reilly Factor” weeknights at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET and listen to the “Radio Factor!” BILL O’REILLY, HOST: In the “Back of the Book” segment tonight, Northwestern University in …

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. – Wake up! We’re closing! The lights are out at MinneNapolis, a store at the Mall of America that sold naps for 70 cents a minute. The nap center, which charged $14 for 20 minutes in a private, themed room, brought in fewer than 1,600 customers during its …

WASHINGTON – The House of Representatives is not lifting a quarter-century congressional ban on offshore oil drilling in coastal waters outside the western Gulf of Mexico amid arguments that new supplies are needed to lower energy prices. A proposal to end the long-standing moratorium as it applies only to pumping …

WASHINGTON – Actress Susan Sarandon, a harsh critic of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton‘s stance on the Iraq war, offered nothing but praise for her Tuesday as the two women teamed up to promote the late Christopher Reeve’s battle for spinal cord research. The joint effort lacked the camaraderie of Sarandon’s …

HOUSTON – Enron founder Kenneth Lay did not mislead investors about the company’s financial health in the weeks before it plunged into bankruptcy, an accounting professor hired by Lay testified on Wednesday. Jerry Arnold, who teaches at the University of Southern California, said third quarter 2001 financial statements cited by …

The following is a partial transcript from the May 28, 2006, edition of “FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace”: “FOX NEWS SUNDAY” HOST CHRIS WALLACE: And on this busy and controversial week in Congress, we’re joined now by the Senate majority leader, Bill Frist. Senator, welcome back to “FOX News …

BANGKOK, Thailand – India has overtaken South Africa as home to the world’s highest number of people infected with HIV/AIDS, as the epidemic in the Asia-Pacific gains ground in some countries and shows some promise of slowing in others, a UNAIDS report found. With an estimated 5.7 million infections last …