GOLD COAST, Australia – Scientists on Monday unveiled three test tube baby koalas produced with new artificial insemination technology designed to ensure the species’ survival. Three of the eight koalas, all born on the Gold Coast in Queensland state, made their first public appearance at a local wildlife sanctuary. They …

The milk-truck driver who shot and killed five young girls and himself in a Pennsylvania Amish community this week told his wife minutes before he died that he molested young family members over 20 years ago and that he had been having dreams about molesting again. Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner …

SILER CITY, N.C. – Police were looking for a man Sunday who allegedly kidnapped his 2-year-old son at gunpoint from his estranged wife early that morning. Jorge Sanchez Aguilera, 29, and three other men broke into the woman’s house around 2 a.m., Chatham County sheriff’s deputies said. Authorities said the …

INDIANAPOLIS – Stephen Jackson of the Indiana Pacers fired a gun in the air, apparently in self-defense, outside a strip club early Friday after he was slugged in the mouth and struck by a car that sent him tumbling onto the hood, police said. There were no reports of anyone …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Attacks in Baghdad rose by 22 percent during the first three weeks of Ramadan as a U.S. military spokesman said a two-month-old U.S.-Iraqi bid to crush violence in the Iraqi capital has not met “overall expectations.” The assessment came as attacks in the northern cities of Mosul, …

PORTERVILLE, Calif. – A 17-year-old boy stabbed his mother to death during a confrontation about his relationship with a 12-year-old girl, police said. Officers arrived at their home Thursday night and found Maria Ruiz, 47, lying in the front yard with two stab wounds. She later died at Sierra View …

VIENNA, Austria – The head of the U.N. nuclear agency warned Monday that as many as 30 countries could soon have technology that would let them produce atomic weapons “in a very short time,” joining the nine states known or suspected to have such arms. Speaking at a conference on …

WASHINGTON – President Bush, pursuing a diplomatic solution to the North Korean nuclear crisis, spoke with Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Thursday and they agreed on the need for a strong U.N. Security Council resolution to punish Pyongyang, a spokesman said. Separately, Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan had a …

TOKYO – A leaked copy of Toyota Motor Corp.’s (TM) “global master plan” calls for grabbing 15 percent of the world car market by 2010 in the company’s quest to unseat rival General Motors (GM), a newspaper said Monday. Toyota declined to comment on the report in The Wall Street …

LOS ANGELES – “Spider-Man” star Tobey Maguire and his fiancee, Jennifer Meyer, are parents of a baby girl, according to magazine reports. Meyer, a 29-year-old jewelry designer, gave birth Thursday in Los Angeles, Us Weekly and People magazines reported on their Web sites. Maguire, 31, and Meyer have been together …