John Travolta dismissed as a "baseless lie" Monday a lawsuit seeking $2 million for alleged assault and sexual battery of a masseur, during a massage session at a Beverly Hills hotel.

The lawsuit filed in Los Angeles claims Travolta tried to have sex with the male masseur, whom he had allegedly hired for a $200-an-hour massage in January. Travolta's statement said the actor was not even in Los Angeles.

Britain's Prince Harry accepted a humanitarian prize from a major Washington think-tank Monday for his work supporting charities that help injured British and U.S. military personnel.

Harry, 27, on his first-ever visit to the U.S. capital, arrived at the Atlantic Council fund-raiser to a small bevy of young female admirers, who he neglected to acknowledge as he stepped inside the luxury Ritz-Carlton Hotel for the gala.

Japan's Toshiba said Tuesday its full-year net profit dropped by almost half to $921 million on a strong yen and weak digital product sales, and last year's natural disasters in Japan and Thailand.

Toshiba said net profit was 73.7 billion yen in the fiscal year to March, down 46.5 percent from 137.8 billion yen a year earlier.

From liposuction in Athens to an eye operation in Dubai, the lucrative market in medical tourism is on the up, tempting ever more countries to look for ways to profit from foreign patient care.

"Everyone wants their share of the pie," Sanjiv Malik, director of DM Healthcare, a Dubai-based network of hospitals, said at a recent conference on medical tourism attended by more than 300 professionals here.

Google on Monday began letting members of its social network worldwide broadcast "hangouts" live to Internet titan's growing online community.

Hangouts On Air were introduced last year at Google+ with select high-profile members testing the service that lets as many as ten people at a time take part in virtual roundtable style video chats broadcast for anyone to see.

After being forced to drop out of school last year because his family needed more income, Gio Vakaloloma turned to the only job available -- selling coconuts on the streets of Suva.

Early every morning, the slightly built 13-year-old shimmies up the palm trees that grow abundantly in the Fijian capital and begins throwing down green coconuts to his friends below.

For desperate Vietnamese cancer patients ground rhinoceros horn is seen as an elixir of life -- a medically unproven and illegal obsession that threatens the very survival of the world's wild rhinos.

The substance, which shares the same protein found in human fingernails, sells for thousands of dollars an ounce in Vietnam. Soaring demand has led to a bloodbath in South Africa as poachers kill record numbers of the creatures.

International powers are "in a race against time" to prevent all-out civil war in Syria, where the government could use the presence of ceasefire observers to prepare a new assault, U.N. leader Ban Ki-moon warned Monday.

Speaking ahead of a key U.N. Security Council meeting on Syria on Tuesday, Ban again condemned the "brutality" of President Bashar Assad's forces but said attacks by opposition groups have also "escalated."

The state of Nevada has issued a license plate giving Google's self-driving car the green light to travel along public roads.

The modified Toyota Prius was issued a license bearing an infinity sign next to the left of number "001" after demonstrating its auto-pilot capabilities on highways, neighborhood streets and even the hectic "strip" in Las Vegas.

People who drive long distances to work are more likely to be overweight and have poorer fitness levels than people who live closer to their jobs, a U.S. study said Tuesday.

The study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine was based on data from nearly 4,300 people in Texas near the major metropolitan hubs of Dallas-Fort Worth -- one of the top five most congested areas in the United States -- and nearby Austin.