On her online model profile, Samantha Burke says she is passionate about fashion and photography, and has aspirations of becoming an actress. But she's now had to put those dreams on hold for a new project: Being mother to Jude Law's fourth child. Burke, a Florida native from Pensacola, confirmed through her attorney Thursday that she is carrying Law's baby. Burke and Law met last year -- and had a brief relationship -- while he filmed "Sherlock Holmes" in New ...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Friday declared that the 2007 emergency decree imposed on the country by former President Pervez Musharraf was unconstitutional, Pakistan's attorney general said. Sardar Muhammad Latif Khan Khosa said the court also ruled illegal all judicial appointments by Musharraf, who dismissed about 60 judges when he declared the state of emergency. The fired judges included 14 of the 18 on the Supreme Court, including Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry. The country's top attorney, Ali ...

Six months into the Obama Administration, a clear pattern of legislative pragmatism has emerged: focus on winning the big votes and don't fret too much about losing some of the details. Working at a furious pace, Obama's team has racked up by almost any measure one of the most successful early records in modern memory, especially if you focus on big scoreboard numbers and not the detailed stats. But each of his team's major accomplishments — ...

Three American tourists are believed to be in Iranian custody after they may have strayed across the border from Iraq during a mountain hike, Kurdish officials said Friday.

Nobody can blame Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn for smiling this past week. VW has just turned the tables on would-be raider Porsche, placing Europe's biggest carmaker in the driver's seat for a planned merger with the much smaller and sportier firm. And while colleagues at rivals like Daimler, Fiat, General Motors and Peugeot are busy trying to survive the current economic storm, Winterkorn seems poised to throw VW into high gear. Compared to its battered competition, VW ...

An additional 440,000 Honda vehicles are being added to a recall initially announced in November to repair a potential defect in airbag inflation systems, American Honda Motor Co. said Friday. The recall involves driver-side airbags in certain 2001-02 Honda Accords, 2001 Civics and 2002-03 Acura TLs, the company said in a news release. The affected vehicles will require the replacement of the steering-wheel-mounted airbag inflator. "In some vehicles, airbag inflators can produce over-pressurization of the driver's [front] airbag inflator mechanism ...

Four generations of Saylors have worked the family's dairy farm for nearly a century, but for the past three years, the cows have been doing something besides providing milk: They've been helping power the place. Growing up on the sprawling spread 90 minutes from Pittsburgh, 36-year-old farmer Shawn Saylor developed into a self-described science buff. So it was no surprise that, when faced with rising energy costs, Saylor turned to technology. He tapped into an ...

A source with knowledge of the investigation told CNN the state attorney's office believes there were two motives in the home invasion murder of Florida couple Byrd and Melanie Billings -- robbery and a contracted hit. The Escambia County Sheriff's Office had said it believed robbery was the prime motive, but that it would explore all avenues. The source said the state attorney's office is working under the belief that most of the suspects in the case thought they were ...

Serbia's Milorad Cavic erased Michael Phelps' 100m fly mark from the world record books as he bids to take revenge on the American for defeat in the Beijing Olympics last year. Cavic saw Phelps clock 50.48 seconds in the first semifinal of the event at this year's world championships in Rome then proceeded to lay down the marker in the second semi. He finished on his own in 50.01 seconds, well inside the mark of 50.22 which Phelps set earlier ...