Keira Knightley is topless in her new film — but that should come as no surprise. “I always bare my breasts,” she said at the press conference to promote “The Edge of Love” Wednesday at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. “It’s not like it’s only in this film!” The British …

HOUSTON – Some low-paid workers with the Houston school district could be in line for a one-time bonus to help offset high gas prices. The district will vote on a plan Thursday to give employees who make less than $30,000 a year $250 for gasoline. The 2.85-million-dollar plan would cover …

TOKYO – As mourners, some weeping, piled Japanese comics, flowers and other mementoes at the scene of a deadly stabbing rampage, the government Monday sought to impose tighter controls over large knives and provide better security in public places. News that the attacker had posted Internet messages saying he intended …

DUBLIN, Ireland – People both for and against a stronger European Union stepped up campaigning Wednesday before a national referendum that could determine the fate of the EU’s charter for reform. But many voters said they were still confused by the issue. As many as 2.8 million Irish citizens will …

HAGERSTOWN, Md. – A Hagerstown woman who filed suit against Wal-Mart is asking for damages for herself and her son, who, she says, was born prematurely after she fell in a store. Radhia Haj-Mabrouk contends in the suit filed Tuesday in Washington County Circuit Court that she slipped on water …

BEIJING – Representatives of the Dalai Lama headed to Beijing on Monday for the first formal talks with Chinese officials in a year, the Tibetan government-in-exile said, a move that comes less than four months after anti-government riots swept through Tibet. Envoys Lodi Gyari and Kelsang Gyaltsen will hold two …

It’s a silent, but possibly deadly, problem. Feeling guilty about their country’s greenhouse-gas emissions, New Zealand scientists want to squelch the biggest source: livestock flatulence. Methane pumped out the backsides of New Zealand’s 45 million sheep and 10 million cattle helps make the tiny country a bigger per-capita climate culprit …

SRINAGAR, India – Thousands of police attempted unsuccessfully to keep people off the streets in Indian Kashmir on Sunday as mass protests continued for a seventh day against what demonstrators charge is a government plan to build Hindu settlements in the Muslim-majority region. As the unrest deepened Sunday and a …

NEW YORK – Steven Tyler sought the “safe environment” of rehab last month to recover from more than just surgery — the Aerosmith frontman now says was fighting a dependency on pain and sleep medication. “To have your feet done, to have your leg done, you have to be on …

Teen sex, as well as drug and alcohol use has declined compared to the 1990’s, but Hispanics are not sharing in the progress, according to a new federal survey. Hispanic high school students use drugs and attempt suicide at higher rates than their black and white classmates, the Centers for …