BOSTON – Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the liberal lion of the Democratic Party, walked out of a Boston hospital Wednesday morning, flashing a smile and patting his dogs Sunny and Splash, one day after learning his weekend seizure was caused by a cancerous brain tumor. A square bandage atop the …

A 2-year-old boy in England suffers from a rare genetic disease sometimes referred to as Children’s Alzheimer’s disease, the U.K.’s Daily Telegraph reports. Taylor Smith, of Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria, England, has been diagnosed with Niemann-Pick disease, type C, a disease that will cause him to develop signs of dementia before …

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved the drug Amitiza for the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome with constipation in women ages 18 and older. The drug’s approval was announced April 29, but is being discussed at this week’s Digestive Disease Week 2008, the largest annual international meeting of …

WASHINGTON – The following is a partial transcript of the May 25, 2008, edition of “FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace”: “FOX NEW SUNDAY” HOST CHRIS WALLACE: Fresh off defeats in three special House elections, Republicans are trying to regroup before November. Joining us to discuss their strategies, Congressman Chris …

SYDNEY, Australia – A fishing trawler collided with an overloaded cabin cruiser that apparently was on a nighttime joyride in Sydney’s famous harbor Thursday, killing five people and injuring nine, authorities said. Four women and a man — all in their late teens or early 20s — died when the …

PARIS – A bus carrying Moroccan workers crashed into a pillar under a highway overpass in France’s Loire Valley early Friday, killing seven people and injuring 25, regional authorities said. The bus was carrying 32 people from the southern Moroccan town of Tiznit to the Paris region when it crashed …

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Democratic Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland has tapped the dean of the Ohio State University law school to serve temporarily as attorney general after a sexual harassment scandal forced out the previous attorney general. Strickland says Nancy Rogers will lead the office for about six months but has …

A former Guantanamo detainee from Kuwait carried out a recent homicide attack in northern Iraq, the U.S. military confirmed Wednesday. A spokesman for U.S. military’s Central Command told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Abdallah Salih al-Ajmi took part in an attack in Mosul. U.S. Navy Cmdr. Scott Rye says …

A gang of London teenage girls is suspected of destroying three houses and killing a man with a homemade liquid bomb during an argument over a boy. According to the U.K.’s Daily Mail, witnesses say a purple, smelly liquid was poured into a mailbox of one of the homes, which …

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands – The Dutch government, famous for liberalism on issues of personal morality, announced plans Friday to criminalize the visiting of prostitutes who are not officially licensed. The Justice Ministry said the move is necessary to force better compliance with the country’s legalized prostitution policy. At the same time, …