BOULOGNE-SUR-MER, France (AP) – A French court must decide whether a British man who went on trial Thursday is a smuggler or a hero after he tried to spirit a 4-year-old Afghan girl from a squalid migrant camp in the French city of Calais to family members in Britain. Just …

LOS ANGELES (AP) – David Bowie fans found a new way to be passing time after the pop star’s death: setting a single-day record for video views on Vevo. The music video service owned by Universal and Sony says views of Bowie videos hit 51 million Monday, the day after …

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) – A suicide attack on a polio vaccination center in southwestern Pakistan on Wednesday killed 15 people, mainly police who had gathered to escort health workers, who have been repeatedly targeted in recent years by Islamic militants, officials said. The bombing of the polio center on the …

JALALABAD, Afghanistan (AP) – Seven members of the Afghan security forces were killed Wednesday after unidentified gunmen attacked the Pakistani consulate in a volatile eastern province, an official said on Wednesday. Attaullah Khyogani, spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar province, said another seven security forces personnel were injured in during …

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – South Korea on Wednesday fired 20 machine gun warning shots after a North Korean drone briefly crossed the rivals’ border, officials said, the first shots fired in a Cold War-style standoff between the Koreas in the wake of the North’s nuclear test last week. The …

ISTANBUL (AP) -The latest on the investigation into the explosion in the historic center of Istanbul. All times local. 1:20 p.m. Germany’s interior minister says there are no indications so far that Germans were specifically targeted in the attack in Istanbul. Germany has taken a noncombat role in the international …

WASHINGTON (AP) – With Americans soon to begin choosing his successor, President Barack Obama is casting his seven divisive years as a time of positive change, implicitly asking voters to replace him with a Democrat who would continue his hard-won policies on health care, climate change and Iran. Addressing a …

NEW YORK (AP) – Getting cable service no longer requires a technician who’ll come and install an ugly cable box. Instead, cable companies are starting to offer slimmed-down bundles of channels that you can stream to your TV over your Internet connection – sort of like Netflix, although mostly not …

ISTANBUL (AP) – The latest on the explosion in historic center of Istanbul. All times local: 2:25 p.m. Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus says the suicide bomber who carried out an attack in Istanbul’s historic neighborhood is a 28-year-old Syrian national. Kurtulmus said most of the 10 people who …

LONDON (AP) – Thousands of junior doctors walked off the job Tuesday in England in a dispute over pay and working conditions – the first such strike in 40 years. Some 50,000 junior doctors -those who are training and have between one and 10 years of experience – were on …