BAGHDAD, Iraq – Two car bombs exploded Wednesday in northern and eastern Baghdad. One woman was killed and 15 people, many of them schoolboys, were injured in a car bombing in a religiously mixed area of eastern Baghdad, police said. Thirteen people were injured in the other car bombing in …

LOS ANGELES – Part of Phil Spector‘s deposition testimony in a civil court battle with his former attorney will be released to prosecutors in his murder case, even though it contains no “smoking gun,” a judge ruled Friday. The record producer’s lawyers argued that his dispute with attorney Robert Shapiro …

TOKYO – Japanese police arrested an American sailor Saturday on charges of robbing and beating a Japanese woman to death — a case likely to further stoke opposition to U.S. military presence in Japan. William Oliver Reese, 21, was arrested after being transferred to police from the U.S. Navy base …

This is a partial transcript from “The Beltway Boys”, January 14, 2006, that has been edited for clarity. Watch “The Beltway Boys” Saturday at 6 p.m. ET and Sunday at 1 and 6 a.m. EST. FRED BARNES, CO-HOST: Let’s check out our ups and downs, Mort, if you’re ready for …

BEIJING – China has revised its gross domestic product growth for 2004 to 10.1 percent, in line with a recent upward revision of the size of the economy, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Monday. It had previously estimated that 2004’s economic output had been 9.5 percent higher than …

WELLINGTON, New Zealand – A moderate earthquake rattled the New Zealand capital of Wellington, where it is Saturday morning, but no damage or injuries were reported. The magnitude 4.3 temblor near Upper Hutt city just north of Wellington shook the region early Saturday, according to the monitoring group Geological and …

NEW YORK – WellPoint Inc. (WLP), the largest U.S. health insurer, Wednesday said profit rose sharply, helped by an increase in membership, and boosted its 2006 profit outlook, though it was below Wall Street estimates. Net income jumped to $652 million, or $1.04 cents per share, from $184.5 million, or …

Pat Robertson has apologized to Ariel Sharon‘s son for saying on his TV show that the Israeli prime minister’s massive stroke was divine punishment from God. “My zeal, my love of Israel, and my concern for the future safety of your nation led me to make remarks which I can …

MIAMI – An inmate apparently scaled a razor-wire fence and escaped Tuesday from the same jail complex where an accused serial rapist used tied-up bed sheets to flee last month, police said. Rodney T. Buckles, 25, was being held at a building in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on …

NEW YORK – Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. (SIRI) said it expects the pace of subscriber additions to increase in 2006, as the company looks to capitalize on exclusive deals with automakers and programming such as the Howard Stern show. The company, which trails XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. (XMSR) in …