BRUSSELS – Experts say the European Union’s plan to disrupt the business of human traffickers and destroy their boats in the Mediterranean is a short-term, dissuasive measure that is likely to be dangerous, costly, and tough to implement. Faced with a rising death toll in the Mediterranean, the EU wants …

MADRID – Spain’s airport authority says a wild boar that broke through a perimeter fence at Madrid’s international airport caused runways to be shut briefly and two landings to be delayed. The beast set off security alarms late Friday and when cameras focused on the spot, operators observed it turning …

HARTFORD, Conn. – Ten Wesleyan University students and two visitors received medical attention after taking a party drug known as Molly over the weekend on campus, including some who attended a rave music show, school officials said Monday. Eight people were still hospitalized Monday, university President Michael Roth said. The …

Hepatitis C attacks the liver silently, and most people don’t even know they have it until liver damage shows up decades later. Worldwide, it’s estimated that 180 million people have chronic hepatitis C, with more than 4 million of these cases in the United States, according to the National Institutes …

He was an awful student. He rarely showed up for class and when he did, he was always in trouble: papers late, tests a disaster. He’d actually pay people to do his homework. I frankly think if he wasn’t so funny, no one would have given him the time of …

He had paid his dues and put in his time. Endured countless meetings and worked countless weekends. But when the big job came up, it went to a guy young enough to be his son, who hadn’t worked nearly as many weekends or endured nearly as many meetings or put …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: One Big Scam? The U.S. and Iraqi governments are calling the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi a victory in the War on Terror, but some on the left here at home are calling it “one big scam.” One liberal Web log reader …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Emine Erdogan, the wife of Turkey’s prime minister, has praised an anti-American film that depicts U.S. soldiers as cold-blooded killers, calling it a beautiful film. “Valley of the Wolves: Iraq” has drawn record audiences in Turkey since its debut. One of the …

While the rest of us order our eggs sunny-side up, over easy, poached, scrambled or boiled, the United States’ ultra-rich and super-posh have always liked their eggs — fish eggs, that is — one way best: on mother-of-pearl spoons. But will the salty-treat-craving silver-spoon set soon have to trade in …

Who would have guessed that stick figures who appear to have larger-than-life craniums would become the hottest trendsetters in Hollywood? Starlets like Mary-Kate Olsen (search), Lindsay Lohan (search) and Nicole Richie (search) have been dubbed “Lollipop Heads” because of their tiny bodies and propensity toward wearing disproportionately large designer sunglasses, …