Mackenzie Phillips hid in her home, made compulsive purchases and struggled with personal issues, she tells Oprah Winfrey. The 49-year-old former child star, best known as Julie on the sitcom "One Day at a Time," also reportedly tells Winfrey about a family secret she's kept hidden for 31 years. The interview is scheduled to air Wednesday. Phillips' book, "High on Arrival," comes out the same day. Staffers at Winfrey's show wouldn't comment on the details of Phillips' interview. ...

Iran's president will deliver some "good news" this week about the country's first nuclear power plant, a semi-official news agency reported Monday. The Mehr News Agency said President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will comment on progress at the Bushehr nuclear power plant on a visit to the city of Natanz on Thursday. The news agency quoted Parviz Fattah, the Iranian minister of power. Fattah said he hopes the nuclear power plant will produce electricity for use as early as this summer, the ...

A suicide bomber on a motorcycle struck a Pakistani Defense Ministry bus Thursday, killing at least one person and wounding 29 others, Rawalpindi police and medical officials said. His statement at a televised political rally in Caracas, Venezuela, followed a trip to Russia, where he met with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev. "We certainly are interested in developing nuclear energy, for peaceful ends of course -- for medical purposes and to generate electricity," Chavez said, ...

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says those who question whether he has power in his country are going by "stereotypes" and "stigmas." "In our country, where there's so much red tape, nobody would even lift a finger without me signing a paper first, even if they have different opinions about who's in charge," Medvedev told CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS" in an exclusive interview airing Sunday. "That's an absolutely clear thing for anyone who wants to sort out this issue." The president ...

Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius was sworn in Tuesday night as secretary of Health and Human Services. She was sworn after she was confirmed by the Senate in a 65-31 vote. The timely vote puts Sebelius in office as the Obama administration is up against its first public health outbreak. She steps into the role as swine flu numbers climb worldwide. As of Tuesday morning, at least 90 cases had been confirmed, including 50 in the United States. Until her ...

The Turkish military said Friday it is weighing bids from American, Russian and Chinese defense contractors as it seeks to buy at least $1 billion worth of long-range missile defense systems. Among the missile systems Turkey is considering are U.S. Patriot missile systems, the military said. "We will purchase four batteries," Turkish armed forces spokesman Metin Gurak announced at a weekly press briefing in the Turkish capital, according to the state news agency, Anatolian. "The actual figure will be determined ...

The United States is dropping plans for a controversial missile defense shield and replacing it with a "new missile defense architecture in Europe," President Obama said Thursday. The new system "will provide capabilities sooner, build on proven systems and offer greater defenses against the threat of missile attack than the 2007 European missile defense program" proposed by former President George W. Bush, Obama said. Obama did not go into details about the new plan but said it had received ...

Slain Yale University graduate student Annie Le was intelligent, driven and destined for greatness, said those who knew her. "She was also really tenacious and had a sense of humor that was never far away, and she was tougher than you'd think by just looking at her," Le's roommate, Natalie Powers, told a crowd of hundreds gathered on campus for the slain 24-year-old's vigil Monday. Le's body was found inside a wall at a Yale medical school building ...

Fourteen women were killed Monday in a stampede during a flour giveaway in the Pakistani city of Karachi, police said. Another 19 people were injured, regional police chief Abdullah Shaikh said. The stampede happened when hundreds of people tried to race into a compound to get flour as part of the giveaway before doors closed. A man named Chaudhry Iftikhar had organized the giveaway at his compound to help the poor. Police said Iftikhar has been arrested because he did ...