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Villages in Spain that have celebrated the ouster of the Moors more than 500 years ago by blowing up effigies of Mohammed have been toning down their celebrations lately lest they offend Muslims around the world, according to El Pais. The paper found several villages in the Valencia region that …

The following is a partial transcript of the Oct. 8, 2006, edition of “FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace”: “FOX NEWS SUNDAY” HOST CHRIS WALLACE: Nowhere has the Mark Foley story hit harder than among the Republicans’ conservative base. We brought together some leading conservatives to talk about it: David …

This is a partial transcript from “Your World with Neil Cavuto,” October 16, 2006, that was edited for clarity. NEIL CAVUTO, HOST: Meantime, sanctions on North Korea may be in place, but my next guest says, no matter what is done, a nuke will eventually be smuggled into this country, …

LONDON – Britain’s new army chief called for a withdrawal of British troops from Iraq, warning that the military’s presence there only exacerbates security problems, according to an interview published Thursday. Gen. Richard Dannatt described British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Iraq policies as “naive,” declaring that while Iraqis might have …

Mmm … unnecessary. Finally, a pizza for people who feel the need to eat boozy snails sprinkled with precious metals and have money to burn. A chef in Scotland says he’s created what he believes is the world’s most expensive pizza pie, and he plans to sell it on eBay …

WASHINGTON – Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will lead a high-level U.S. delegation to Beijing next month for talks aimed at addressing a number trade tensions growing out of America’s soaring deficit with China. The Treasury Department announced that Bernanke will join Paulson for the …

MIAMI – A 2-year-old boy reported missing nearly three months ago, and whose mother’s suicide ignited a controversy involving a cable news talk show host, “could still be alive,” police said Wednesday. Trenton Duckett, who was reported missing Aug. 27 by his mother, Melinda Duckett, may still be alive after …

MOSCOW – “Borat” may be banned in Russia. A government agency said it would refuse to grant permission for Sacha Baron Cohen’s controversial comedy “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” to be shown in theaters in neighboring Russia, its distributor here said Thursday. The …

WASHINGTON – Seven retired federal judges from both political parties have joined dozens of Guantanamo Bay detainees in urging an appeals court to declare key parts of President Bush’s new anti-terrorism law unconstitutional. The judges, in a rare court filing Wednesday, said stripping courts of the right to question how …

LOS ANGELES – It was a more-than-unpredictable night for Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx at the American Music Awards program Tuesday at the Shrine Auditorium. Not only did he snag his first AMA, for best soul-R&B male artist, but his biological mother attended the show. He hadn’t seen her in years. “I …