Brenden Adams, a 13-year-old from Ellensburg, Wash., is already 7-feet, 3-inches tall, the Seattle Times reported Monday. His bones, teeth and organs are growing at an abnormal pace because of an inverted chromosome 12. “He gets sick and tired of Mom asking him, ‘Brenden, are you OK?'” his mother, Debbie …

NEW YORK – A young drifter who strangled a college student and then watched the grisly horror film “Saw” committed the murder as an afterthought, the New York Post reported. Jeromie Cancel, 22, whom police and family describe as homeless and mentally unstable, allegedly confessed to the heinous crime, was …

A British village expecting a scooter and music festival found itself invaded by more than 800 neo-Nazis instead. Racist skinheads from across Britain, Germany and Eastern Europe arrived draped in swastika flags. Wearing leather jackets and army boots, they stomped through the streets chanting: “Sieg Heil, Sieg Heil,” a Nazi …

McLEAN, Va. – A former Florida professor once accused of being a leading Palestinian terrorist was released from custody for the first time in more than five years. Sami Al-Arian was being held by immigration officials as he awaited trial on charges of refusing to testify before a grand jury …

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – An 11-year-old boy gave out invitations to his classmates for a big event his family was planning this summer — and it wasn’t his birthday party. It was his wedding to a 10-year-old cousin. Muhammad al-Rashidi’s marriage was eventually put on hold, his father said, after …

TEHRAN, Iran – State TV says Iran’s space agency aims to send an astronaut to space within 10 years. The report Thursday quotes Space Agency chief Reza Taghipoor saying the mission’s timing will be decided over the next year. It gives no other details. Iran has stepped up its space …

VIENNA, Austria – An Austrian police official says Bianca Jagger has lost a ring worth about $300,000 in Salzburg. Karl-Heinz Wochermayr says the ex-wife of Rolling Stone Mick Jagger lost the ring Saturday in the city center. The platinum ring is encrusted with small diamonds and has an aquamarine in …

LOS ANGELES – A man charged with kidnapping his daughter in Boston is a German who lived in the guesthouse of a Los Angeles-area couple who disappeared in 1985, a sheriff’s spokesman said Monday. Los Angeles County sheriff’s investigators have identified Christian Gerhartsreiter as the same man who used the …

WASHINGTON – President Bush, fresh off a CIA briefing about the fighting in Georgia, again called for the cease-fire to be honored in the former Soviet republic. Bush repeated his demand that Russia respect the “territorial integrity” of Georgia. He spoke after spending nearly four hours at CIA headquarters where …

CAIRO, Egypt – A key leader of Egypt’s main pro-democracy group was arrested Wednesday night during a raid on his home in Cairo, police and group officials said. George Ishaq, director-general of Kifaya, was taken away by security officers who stormed the home around 8 p.m., one of the group’s …