TUNIS, Tunisia – Tunisia’s government is urging its citizens to sacrifice some of their freedoms to better protect the country from attacks like the mass shooting at a beach resort last month that killed 38 people, mostly tourists. Government minister Kamel Jendoubi on Tuesday defended the president’s decision to impose …

RALEIGH, N.C. – A pit bull mauled to death a 6-year-old boy who apparently had climbed over a 4-foot chain-link fence to get into a neighbor’s yard in western North Carolina, authorities said Wednesday. The Henderson County Sheriff’s Office was called to a residence in Hendersonville, south of Asheville, on …

ORLANDO, Fla. – Authorities say a man has made Walt Disney World his happiest place on Earth for dining and dashing. Fifty-one-year-old Jerry Moody was arrested Tuesday after the manager of a lounge at Disney’s Contemporary Resort says he racked up a $92 bar tab and tried to leave without …

Police in Chad have warned that anyone caught wearing an Islamic veil that fully covers the face will be arrested on sight, in the wake of Saturday’s suicide bombing believed carried out by a Boko Haram operative disguised as a burka-wearing woman. Some 15 people were killed and 80 wounded …

FRANKFURT, Germany – The International Monetary Fund says Greece’s debts are too big to pay and need to be partly forgiven. Germany says that’s out of the question. German officials, led by Chancellor Angela Merkel and Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, say that as part of a new rescue package for …

BERLIN – A group of parents whose children were killed in the Germanwings plane crash in March have written a scathing letter to Lufthansa’s CEO, accusing him of ignoring their needs and feelings. The parents of 16 students from the town of Haltern killed in the crash have accused Carsten …

NEW YORK – Two chimpanzees will not be freed from a New York state university where they’re used in locomotion studies after a court decision Thursday dismissed a lawsuit that had sought to afford them legal personhood rights. While the Nonhuman Rights Project had standing to bring the lawsuit on …

BEIJING – Police in eastern China say two men have been arrested and explosives and other weapons seized in a series of raids on what they described as a terrorist ring. The police department in the city of Wenzhou says on its microblog that officers made a series of coordinated …

NEW ORLEANS – A man driving wildly down his New Orleans street, hitting other cars and homes after having an argument with his wife, was shot to death Saturday by a police officer, a police spokesman said. Tyler Gamble said the man was shot after getting out of his car …

TOKYO – Volkswagen overtook Toyota in global vehicle sales for January-June, the first time the German automaker has come out at the top in the intensely competitive tallies. Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp. said Tuesday it sold 5.02 million vehicles in the first six months of this year. Volkswagen said …