TOKYO – Japanese automaker Honda has developed technology that uses brain signals to control a robot’s moves, hoping to someday link a person’s thoughts with machines in everyday life. In the future, the technology that Honda Motor Co. researched with ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories may substitute for a keyboard or …

WASHINGTON – Mexico and four Central American nations condemned the U.S plan to build hundreds of miles of triple-layered fencing on its southern border, saying it would not stop illegal immigration. In a joint news conference in Mexico City late Thursday, the foreign ministers of Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica …

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Nearly two-thirds of contact-lens wearers who contracted a potentially blinding fungal eye infection reported using Bausch & Lomb Inc.’s newest lens cleaner, health authorities said Tuesday. The eye-care products maker halted U.S. sales of its ReNu with MoistureLoc solution on April 10 after the Centers for Disease …

NEW YORK – A.M. Rosenthal, a demanding editor who lifted The New York Times from economic doldrums in the 1970s and molded it into a journalistic juggernaut known for distinguished reporting of national and world affairs, died Wednesday at age 84. He died of complications from a stroke he suffered …

NEW YORK – Is James Frey‘s “My Friend Leonard,” the sequel to his discredited “A Million Little Pieces,” fact or fiction? In an author’s note to the paperback edition, which has just come out, Frey says it’s some of both. “To call this book pure nonfiction would be inaccurate,” the …

ALBANY, N.Y. – The state’s highest court declined Tuesday to hear Sean “Diddy” Combs’ appeal of a lower court decision ordering him to pay more than $19,000 a month in child support payments. The hip-hop mogul was ordered last year to pay ex-girlfriend Misa Hylton-Brim for the care of their …

LOS ANGELES – Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban will tie the knot, the country music star’s publicist has confirmed. “They are very happily engaged,” said publicist Paul Freundlich. He declined to discuss details of their wedding plans, and Kidman’s publicist did not immediately return a call for comment Wednesday. The …

ROCKVILLE, Md. – A beat-up former police car with 156,000 miles on it occupied the spotlight at convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad‘s second trial, as prosecutors sought to show how the vehicle was modified into a mobile sniper’s nest. Jurors in the trial saw the car up close on a …

BERLIN – A teenager suspected of attacking 28 people with a knife in a rampage in the German capital has denied being involved, officials said Saturday, despite dozens of witness statements and the seizure of the weapon. The 16-year-old student from Berlin is under investigation for attempted murder after he …

HONG KONG – The Vatican should halt talks with China about restoring formal diplomatic ties because Beijing is ordaining bishops who aren’t approved by the Roman Catholic church, a Hong Kong newspaper on Tuesday quoted a cardinal as saying. The reported comments by Hong Kong’s outspoken Cardinal Joseph Zen came …