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Director Roman Polanski speaks during a press conference for Venus in Fur at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Polanski laments leveling of sexes as 'idiotic'

Roman Polanski says the birth control pill has had a "masculinizing" effect on women and that the leveling of the sexes is "idiotic" The director made the comments Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival, where he came to premiere "Venus in Fur," a film adapted from the David Ives play ...

FILE - In this Friday, May 24, 2013 file photo, military boots are laid in tribute outside the Woolwich Barracks, in London, in response to the bloody attack on Wednesday when a British soldier was killed in the nearby street. Counterterrorism police on Saturday were questioning a friend of Michael Adebolajo, one of two suspects in the savage killing of British soldier Lee Rigby. The friend, Abu Nusaybah, was arrested immediately after he gave a television interview telling his story about how Adebolajo may have become radicalized. (AP Photo/Bogdan Maran, File)

UK police arrest 3 more men in soldier's slaying

British police on Saturday arrested three more suspects in connection with the savage killing of an off-duty soldier that has raised fresh concerns about terrorism. Scotland Yard said counter-terrorism officers arrested two men, aged 24 and 28, at a residential address in southeast London. A third man, 21, was arrested ...

Sheila Pott poses with a portrait of her daughter Audrie in Los Altos, Calif., Thursday, May 23, 2013. Audrie Pott committed suicide in September 2012 after being sexually assaulted by three boys during a house party in Saratoga, Calif. Photos of the incident were circulated around Pott's high school prompting the teenager to hang herself in a bathroom at home. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Girl's suicide after alleged attack troubles town

One evening last Labor Day weekend, 15-year-old Audrie Pott walked up the driveway of a classmate's home alongside other teenagers. She'd told her parents she was spending the night with a friend. The friend claimed she was sleeping at Audrie's. Instead, the girls were having a party. A classic teenage ...

Police officers stand near the cordoned off spot where a French soldier was stabbed in the throat in the busy commercial district of La Defense, outside Paris, Saturday May 25, 2013, and France's president said authorities are investigating any possible links with the recent slaying of a British soldier.(AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)

French soldier stabbed in throat outside Paris

A French soldier was stabbed in the throat in a busy commercial district outside Paris on Saturday, and the government said it was trying to determine if there were any links with the bloody killing of a British soldier by suspected Islamic extremists. French President Francois Hollande said the identity ...

NC art exhibit pays tribute to teen shot, killed

In one black-and-white image, a teenager in a hoodie stands on a field, hand outstretched, gripping a football. In another picture, seven students lie in the grass, eyes closed, using their bodies to spell out the initials "K'' and "C." Another image features torn up chunks of asphalt. A poster ...

2 injured in hit-and-run boat crash on Lake Lanier

Georgia authorities are hunting for a boat operator involved in a hit-and-run collision on Lake Lanier than injured two people. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports (http://bit.ly/136iGOD ) the crash at nearly midnight Friday caused heavy damage to a Sea-Doo jet boat that had two people on it. The Georgia Department of ...

Hagel Urges Cadets to End Scourge of Sex Assault

Hagel Urges Cadets to End Scourge of Sex Assault

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel urged graduating West Point cadets to stamp out the scourge of harrassment and sexual assault in the military. He called the issue a "profound betrayal of sacred oaths and trusts". (May 25)

Texas authorities searching for escaped prisoner

North Texas authorities are searching for a prisoner who escaped from a van transporting him and others from Louisiana to Florida. Olney Police Chief Barry Roberts says 33-year-old Michael Rimmer apparently escaped about 1 a.m. Saturday during a stop at a convenience store in the town northwest of Dallas. Roberts ...

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel arrives for a graduation and commissioning ceremony at the U.S. Military Academy, Saturday, May 25, 2013, in West Point, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

Hagel: Cadets must stamp out sex assault scourge

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on Saturday that they must stamp out the scourge of sexual assault in the military. A day after President Barack Obama delivered a similar edict to U.S. Naval Academy graduates, Hagel's message comes amid a series ...

Dye agrees to meet with NCAA investigators

Miami senior Dyron Dye has agreed to meet for a third time with NCAA investigators, who want to know why there are discrepancies between what he told them in 2011 and what he wrote in a recent affidavit to support a former Hurricanes assistant coach. And according to that affidavit, ...

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