BELLE VERNON, Pa. - A woman in western Pennsylvania is charged with endangering her two children for allegedly ignoring warnings and sending the kids to school with lice.

MADRID, Spain - A burglar who broke into a funeral home tried to fool police by playing dead, but two things gave him away. First, he breathed. Plus, he wore grungy clothes rather than the Sunday best of those settling

BRISBANE, Australia - An Australian politician on Wednesday proposed designating a special day for residents to hunt and kill what he called one of the world's most disgusting creatures: the poisonous cane toad.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia- When Roslan Ngah took a second wife, he might have wondered if she would get along with his first.

BANGKOK, Thailand - Thailand's Health Ministry ordered hospitals and medical clinics to temporarily stop performing castrations for non-medical reasons, saying Wednesday that the procedure popular among transsexuals needs stricter monitoring.

Switch on the small gray metal box and listen: A sharp, pulsating, high-pitched tone burrows into the ear like a power drill bit, prompting an agitated, please-shut-that-blasted-thing-off grimace.

The magazine will not have full frontal nudity in deference to the country's influential Roman Catholic Church.

If that sounds like good news to you, don't cheer too loudly. The time does not count foreplay.

The Pentagon has released a now-defunct legal memo that approved the use of harsh interrogation techniques against terror suspects. Â The newly declassified memo says President George W. Bush's wartime powers trump any international treaties that ban torture.

Students at Harrison High in Evansville, Ind., had mixed reactions, depending on how the second semester was going for them.

Officers put in a lot of energy to close a case, so we never mind getting one on sheer luck and stupidity,'' Lake Charles police Sgt. Mark Kraus said of last week's arrest.

Some politicians protested that parts of the mural are obscene and have attracted gang-related tags in a city where graffiti already mars homes, sidewalks and buildings.