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GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli airstrikes killed eight Gaza militants on Saturday, the latest in what Palestinian leaders called an "escalation" of violence aimed at blackmailing them into concessions. "This Israeli escalation aims to bring the Palestinian people to their knees and to blackmail the government in order to win over political concessions," Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh told reporters in Gaza. Interim Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, whose centrist Kadima party won an election in Mar ...

Torrential rain failed to dampen spirits at the 8th annual Tartan Parade in New York. Crowds lined 6th Avenue in Manhattan as more than 2,000 pipers and drummers marched past. Bands from across Scotland and the US took part along with dignitaries, including the Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament, George Reid. First Minister Jack McConnell chaired a meeting with officials to discuss bird flu and did not attend the parade. Mr McConnell had hoped to participate but was unable to do s ...

HUNT, Texas (AP) -- Wildfires in the Texas Hill Country that have killed one man were threatening about 50 homes Saturday and have burned about 6,200 acres, officials said. One fire in Kerr County, about 100 miles west of Austin, had burned about 1,100 acres and was putting about 50 homes at risk, said Texas Forest Service spokeswoman Traci Weaver. In the same county, a fire that scorched 150 ac ...

ST. PAUL, Minnesota (AP) -- A high school senior whose SAT was incorrectly scored low is suing the board that oversees the exam and the testing company that was hired. The lawsuit, filed late Friday in Minnesota, is the first since last month's announcement that 4,411 students got incorrectly low scores and that more than 600 had better results than they deserved on the October test. It names t ...

POKHARA, Nepal (AP) -- Nepali security forces fired on stone-throwing protesters Saturday, killing one person and wounding at least five as increasingly violent demonstrations against King Gyanendra spread across the Himalayan nation. Protesters ransacked government buildings and attacked security forces in provincial cities, but a curfew and a threat by authorities to shoot anyone violating it spared the capital, Katmandu, further violence after two days of protests. However, political partie ...

LONDON, England (AP) -- Prince Harry, the third in line to the British throne, celebrated the end of his military training with a visit to a lap dancing club, British newspapers reported Saturday. Harry, 21, watched dancers at the Spearmint Rhino nightclub in Slough, southern England, during celebrations marking the end of a year of study at a military academy, the Daily Mirror said. The Daily Mirror and The Sun claimed Harry spent several hours at the venue in the early hours of Friday mornin ...

GAZA (Reuters) - Six Palestinian militants were killed in an Israeli air strike against a training camp in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, medics said, in the latest of a series of such attacks in days. Israel has increased such strikes amid a surge of rocket attacks from Gaza. The militants killed in the latest missile strike were from The Abu el-Reesh Brigades, which is part of President Mahmoud Ab ...

GAZA (Reuters) - An Israeli missile strike killed two Palestinians at a training camp for gunmen in Gaza, witnesses said, hours after two Palestinian militants died in an air raid that Israel said was aimed at rocket launchers. The Israeli army had no immediate comment on the latest attack, which occurred near the town of Khan Younis. The missiles hit a camp used by militants from Abu Rish Brigad ...

Eight bodies have been found in three vehicles in woodland on a farm in Canada, police say. The grim discovery was made by a farmer on his land in Elgin County, Ontario. Police have not said how the eight people died, but say it is possible more bodies will be discovered. "We cannot speculate on the motive and we are not in a position to release any information about the persons, the motive or the cause of death," said Ontario Police Sergeant Dave Rektor. "We have not really even appro ...

The third round of the 70th Masters will have to be completed on Sunday because of a lengthy delay on Saturday caused by thunderstorms. Barely half of the 47 players still in the tournament had started their third rounds when the bad weather intervened. Chad Campbell, who leads, was about two hours away from starting when play was halted, meaning at least six hours will be needed to finish the round. This is the eighth Masters in nine years to be delayed by bad weather. With the third round  ...