ROME – Italian officials say an Italian doctor kidnapped in Libya in January has been freed. An official at the Foreign Ministry, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Tuesday that Ignazio Scaravilli had been freed and was in good condition in Tripoli, awaiting his return to Italy. The official, speaking …

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad – Trinidad Attorney General Garvin Nicholas said Wednesday that officials feared former FIFA Vice President Jack Warner would flee the island after facing U.S. federal corruption charges, but they’re now confident he’ll stay in the country. Warner is scheduled to appear in court July 9 for an extradition …

TOKYO – Four years after an earthquake and tsunami destroyed Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant, the road ahead remains riddled with unknowns. The government approved a revised 30-to-40-year roadmap Friday that delays by three years the start of a key initial step — the removal of still-radioactive used fuel rods …

STOCKHOLM – Foo Fighters singer Dave Grohl fell off the stage during a concert Friday in Goteborg and injured his right leg — but still continued with the concert. Grohl’s U.S. representative Steve Martin confirmed the fall to The AP and said he was finishing the concert. Photos from the …

TORONTO – A Canadian freelance journalist who was held by kidnappers for 15 months in Somalia seven years ago says the Somali man who Canadian police arrested last week terrorized her mother by calling to Canada multiple times a day at all hours in an effort to extract a ransom. …

KUWAIT CITY – A criminal court in Kuwait issued two-year suspended sentences to a group of 21 people, among them eight former lawmakers, for “offending” the Gulf Arab country’s ruler. The opposition activists and former lawmakers also were ordered by the court Tuesday to pay roughly $6,600 each to settle …

ROTE NDAO, Indonesia – The captain of a people smuggling boat who says he was paid by Australian authorities to return the migrants to Indonesia has described a terrifying ordeal on the voyage back. The Indonesian captain, Johanes Humiang, said in an interview Wednesday that Australian authorities seized the boat …

Pressure is mounting for the release of an Afghan Red Cross worker who was arrested last summer for converting to Christianity. The worker, Said Musa, 46, who left Islam roughly eight years ago, was arrested in May after an Afghan TV report showed locals being baptized and called for the …

Imagine if a fire broke out causing an explosion at the San Onofre Nuclear Power plant in San Clemente, California, just like the one that crippled the Fukushima Dai-ichi Plant in Japan last month. That’s the mock scenario playing out at the Joint Information Center in Irvine, California. Just like …

Will the wandering magnetic North Pole create crazy superstorms? The eye-popping connection between the planet’s weather and its magnetic field has caught hold among scaremongers recently, ever since scientists described the potential of devastating “superstorms” — storms caused, scientists say, by flowing gushers of water in the sky known as …