When it comes to making money, there's little doubt that macabre sells. Just take a gander at the financial reports for Premier Exhibitions, the Atlanta-based company with a controversial traveling show, "Bodies ... The Exhibition," now in San Diego. The exhibit features real human corpses that have been dissected, plasticized and posed.   BODIES BRINGS THE BUCKS - A preserved running corpse is one of the offerings in Premier Exhibitions' traveling series of exhibits called 'Bodies ... [full story]

DENVER -- A man in custody in Denver may be linked to the slaying of Broncos football player Darrent Williams and other unsolved crimes, it was reported Saturday. A federal court complaint alleges William DeWayne Clark, 25, belongs to a gang known as the "Elite Eight," the Rocky Mountain News reported. Clark has been named as a "person of interest" in the death of Williams, a popular Broncos cornerback who was shot to death Jan. ... [full story]

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- At least 40 explosions damaged Baghdad's fortified Green Zone Tuesday in the worst attack since April 2004, it was reported. Mortar shells struck throughout the Green Zone as helicopters flew overhead and columns of thick smoke and dust rose near the U.S. Embassy and Iraqi government offices, reported KUNA, the Kuwait News Agency. News correspondents working in Baghdad described it as the worst attack on the area in four years. No information ... [full story]

WASHINGTON - The so-called "second tier" of Democratic presidential hopefuls is campaigning on the issues and experience. The Washington Times reported Monday Sens. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and Joseph Biden of Delaware, and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson are hoping one of the top three candidates falls aside in the way that Howard Dean lost the lead in 2004. Aides to the second-tier candidates told the Times they believe neither Sens. Hillary Clinton of New ... [full story]

DURHAM, N.H. -- A new U.S. study revealed that 4 percent of children who go online are asked to transmit sexually explicit photos of themselves, USA Today reported Friday. Youths who oblige could become both victims and perpetrators of child pornography, warned Kimberly Mitchell, co-author of the study and a psychology professor at the University of New Hampshire's Crimes Against Children Research Center. "They're being asked to produce child pornography," which is a felony, Mitchell ... [full story]

MANILA, Philippines -- Fourteen Filipino soldiers reportedly were killed, some of them beheaded, in the Philippines' south where Islamic separatists are active. The Guardian reported the soldiers, who had gone in search of a kidnapped Italian priest, were killed Tuesday in clashes with rebels. The report said the bodies of the soldiers were recovered Wednesday on the southern island of Basilan. Leaders of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front were quoted as saying the clashes started ... [full story]

DAMASCUS, Syria -- An explosion at a Syrian ammunition warehouse, apparently set off by high summer temperatures, Thursday killed at least 15 soldiers and injured another 50. The state-run SANA news agency emphasized the blast at a military depot in Musalmiya -- about six miles outside the city of Aleppo -- was not an act of sabotage, but rather the result of the morning's intense heat reacting with the highly explosive materials stored inside the ... [full story]

BUCHAREST, Romania -- Eighteen people have died across Romania as temperatures as high as 108 degrees Fahrenheit swept the Balkan country, media said Monday. Romanian Health Minister Eugen Nicolaescu told reporters the death toll rose to 15 during the weekend, and Bucharest doctors said three more people died Monday due to heat-related health problems. The heat wave gripped Romania early last week and by Friday nine people perished, six people died Saturday, the NineO'clock Web ... [full story]

RED WING, Minn. -- Police have determined two of three dead babies found in the same stretch of the Mississippi River in Minnesota in the past eight years had the same mother. Authorities said DNA evidence has revealed the white newborn girl and boy infants found in 1999 and 2003 in the river in Goodhue County were born alive and were put into the river within hours, the Star Tribune reported Wednesday. The unrelated third ... [full story]

BEIJING -- A blast tore through a karaoke bar in a town in northeast China, killing at least 25 people and injuring 33 more, it was reported Thursday. Four of the injured were reported to be serious condition, Xinhua news agency reported Thursday. The cause of the blast was not immediately known. The explosion occurred Wednesday night in Tianshifu town in Liaoning province. The Xinhua report, quoting local officials, said the blast was under investigation. ... [full story]