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By Jason Webb CARTAGENA, Colombia (Reuters) - Jane Chaplin was 17 when she had her first proper conversation with her aged father, the screen legend Charlie Chaplin, and now she is writing a book about growing up with a man she hardly knew but the world still recognises as "The Little Tramp." Entitled "Seventeen minutes with my father," it will be the first book by any of the Chaplin children, she told Reuters in a street cafe Cartagena on Colombia's Caribbean coast. She has lived a life of le ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- A magnitude-7.7 undersea earthquake rocked eastern Indonesia early Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. There was no danger of a tsunami. The earthquake occurred in the Banda Sea about 120 miles south of Ambon city, the USGS said. It occurred at a depth of 212 miles. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said no destructive tsunami threat existed. There were no imm ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A 27-year old man was charged on Friday in connection with the failed bomb attacks in London last July, police said. Muhedin Ali of west London was charged with having helped Hussain Osman, one of the men suspected of the July 21 attacks, evade capture. Ethiopian-born Briton Osman, 27 fled to Italy after the unsuccessful attacks and was arrested in Rome before his extradition to Britain in September, 2005. Ali has also been charged with failing to disclose information about ...

By Phil Stewart VITERBO, Italy (Reuters) - Vowing to strike Jesus from history, an Italian atheist took his legal crusade against the Church to court on Friday asking a judge to open a formal trial over whether Christ existed. "Jesus is fiction," said Luigi Cascioli. "The Church is fooling the people -- and must be held responsible." Cascioli invoked a law known in Italian as "Abuso di Credulit ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A mystery man jailed for assuming the identity of a dead baby over 20 years ago -- a ploy made famous by the Frederick Forsyth novel "The Day of the Jackal" -- won an appeal on Friday to have his sentence reduced. London's Court of Appeal cut from 21 to nine months the sentence imposed on the 43-year old who appeared in court under his assumed identity of Christopher Buckingham ...

By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas and Fatah gunmen exchanged fire on Friday in political turmoil as the long-dominant Palestinian faction was threatened with a violent backlash to its crushing election defeat by the Islamic militant group. Hamas, whose shock parliamentary election victory changed the face of Palestinian politics and put Middle East peacemaking deeper in limbo, said it would hold talks soon with President Mahmoud Abbas on "political partnership". But Fatah leaders ha ...

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- The city attorney's office has sued the makers of "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" for allegedly hiding pornographic material inside the video game, officials said. Rocky Delgadillo said his office sued Rockstar Games and its parent company, Take-Two Interactive, for making misleading statements in marketing the game and engaging in unfair competition. A telephone ...

By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - London police chief Ian Blair on Friday "unreservedly apologised" for saying he could not understand why the murder of the Soham schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman had attracted so much media attention. Blair told a meeting on Thursday of the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA), which oversees the capital's force, "almost nobody can understand why that dreadful story became the biggest story in Britain." Wells and Chapman, both 10, were murdered i ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A 27-year old man was charged on Friday in connection with the failed bomb attacks in London last July, British police said. Muhedin Ali of west London was charged with having helped Hussain Osman, one of the men suspected of the July 21 attacks, evade capture. Ethiopian-born Briton Osman, 27 fled to Italy after the unsuccessful attacks and was arrested in Rome before his extradition to Britain in September, 2005. Ali has also been charged with failing to disclose informati ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Four stunt artists were hurt in a special-effects accident on the set of the soap opera "All My Children," the ABC show said Friday. "Unfortunately, during a shoot which included planned special effects, four stunt people were injured," the show said in a statement. "All four are expected to make a swift recovery." The accident occurred Tuesday at a studio on West 66th Street.  ...