ATLANTA – Last-minute business travelers and some first-class fliers will pay more this summer for domestic tickets on some of the major airlines. Some fares at the major airlines have been creeping up in recent months largely because of persistently high fuel prices. Delta Air Lines Inc., the nation’s third-largest …

JAKARTA, Indonesia – A moderate earthquake struck off the western coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra Island on Monday, the government said. There were no immediate report of injuries or damage. The magnitude-5.9 quake was centered 330 miles southwest of the town of Bandar Lampung, said Agung Mulyo Utomo, a staffer the …

DETROIT – The federal government defended its terrorism surveillance program in court for the first time Monday, saying it is well within the president’s authority but that proving that would require revealing state secrets. U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor was hearing arguments in a case brought by the American …

PARIS – France’s highest court upheld George Soros’ conviction for insider trading Wednesday in a case dating back nearly 20 years, and the billionaire investor vowed to fight the ruling at the European Court of Human Rights. The Court of Cassation upheld the 75-year-old American financier’s conviction for buying and …

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – At the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, where cadets in pressed shirts and gold-buttoned blazers train to become officers, court testimony this week could offer a far less distinguished view of student life: one including sex and drinking to the brink of unconsciousness. Cadet Webster Smith, 22, …

GLEN COVE, New York – An Egyptian student who had been ejected from a golf club drove his car into a crowd, hitting four people and injuring two of them critically, police said. Authorities said Sayed Khaled el-Waraky, 24, an Egyptian national who was attending college in Vienna, Virginia, had …

BERLIN – Germany and England may meet in this year’s World Cup. Just not yet. Germany cruised through as Group A winner Tuesday with a comfortable 3-0 victory over second-placed Ecuador and will face Sweden in the second round after the Scandinavians qualified with a 2-2 draw with England. England …

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – The survivor of a van crash who was wrongly identified as a college classmate has started talking, laughing and is beginning to understand that family and friends believed for more than a month that she had been killed in the wreck, according to a family Web …

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – A Palestinian militant leader claimed Tuesday that his group had seized a Jewish settler in the West Bank in addition to a captured Israeli soldier being held in a “secure place.” Meanwhile, the rival Hamas and Fatah groups announced they had agreed on a plan …

WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter cranked up his dispute with the Bush administration over executive power on Thursday, threatening to subpoena documents on the White House’s warrantless surveillance program. Specter said he had not received a response to his request that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales appear before …