A Hizbullah official in south Lebanon said the party was on full alert in case of any Israeli attack in light of the aggression on the Gaza Strip, but denied fighters were policing the border to prevent attacks on the Jewish state.

"This is a job for the (Lebanese) army and United Nations peacekeepers, not Hizbullah," the official told the Associated Press.

New York's highest court ruled Tuesday that a Lebanese bank's use of a New York account for multimillion-dollar wire transfers establishes the basis for a lawsuit in the U.S. by Israeli "victims" of Hizbullah's rocket attacks in the 2006 war.

The lawsuit was filed by American, Canadian and Israeli citizens who live in northern Israel. It claims that Lebanese Canadian Bank supported terrorism by handling international financial transactions of the Hizbullah affiliate Shahid Foundation. The lawsuit says the money was moved through an account at American Express Bank in New York.

A documentary about an inmate on Florida's death row says the convicted killer might have been involved in the 1994 murder of O.J. Simpson's ex-wife and her friend, a case that was called "the trial of the century" in the U.S.

The Investigation Discovery show, "My Brother the Serial Killer," will air Wednesday. The film is a look at Glen Rogers, who was convicted by a Florida jury in 1997 for killing a woman. Rogers was also convicted of murder in California and is a suspect in homicides in several other states.

Volkswagen is recalling about 2,500 Beetles in the U.S. because the front passenger seat air bag could inflate and injure a small child.

The recall includes 2012 and 2013 Beetles with leather sport seats. If the seat gets wet, the module that's supposed to detect a child seat could fail. The air bag could go off in a crash and hurt the child.

Donnie Wahlberg hopes his "Blue Bloods" co-star Jennifer Esposito is OK, but has no idea when, or if, she's returning to the show.

CBS suspended the actress from the police drama, claiming she can't fulfill the full-time demands of the show. Esposito fired back over Twitter accusing the network of "absolutely shameful behavior."

The father of "Modern Family" star Ariel Winter is opposing a guardianship for the teenage actress and says he is willing to care for her.

Glenn Workman filed papers Monday objecting to stripping his estranged wife Chrisoula of custody of the 14-year-old. His protest comes one day before a Los Angeles judge is scheduled to hold a hearing in the case.

The average New Jersey beach is 30 to 40 feet narrower after Superstorm Sandy, according to a survey that is sure to intensify a long-running debate on whether federal dollars should be used to replenish stretches of sand that only a fraction of U.S. taxpayers use.

Some of New Jersey's famous beaches lost half their sand when Sandy slammed ashore in late October.

Chimpanzees in a midlife crisis? It sounds like a setup for a joke.

But there it is, in the title of a report published Monday in a scientific journal: "Evidence for a midlife crisis in great apes."

The U.N. weather agency says concentrations of the main global warming pollutant in the world's air reached a record high in 2011.

The World Meteorological Organization says the planet averaged 390 parts per million of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, up 40 percent from before the Industrial Age when levels were about 275 parts per million.

There's a new push to make testing for the AIDS virus as common as cholesterol checks.

An independent panel that sets screening guidelines is proposing that Americans ages 15 to 64 get an HIV test at least once — not just people considered at high risk for the virus.