NEW YORK (AP) — The sexual assault charges that cost Dominique Strauss-Kahn his job as head of the International Monetary Fund likely will be dropped by prosecutors, a person familiar with the case said.
BUNKER HILL, Ind. (AP) — A 76-year-old man has been stabbed to death while leading Boy Scouts on a hiking trip in northern Indiana, and a suspect who battered his mother and killed a dog at their home nearby is under arrest, police said.
ROME (AP) — World leaders said Monday the end is near for Moammar Gadhafi's regime and began planning for Libya's future without the man who has held power there for 42 years.
LONDON (AP) — Richard Branson says guests including actress Kate Winslet escaped uninjured when fire tore though his luxury Caribbean home in the middle of the night.
NEW YORK (AP):There are concerns in the United States that the stock market is starting to feed economic fear, not just reflect it.Stocks have fallen four weeks in a row.
WASHINGTON (AP):Laid-off workers and ageing baby boomers are flooding United States Social Security's disability programme with benefit claims, pushing the financially strapped system toward the brink of insolvency.Applications are up nearly 50 per cent...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP):Relatives of two American men arrested more than two years ago in Iran said yesterday that the news they had received eight-year prison sentences for spying hit them hard, but they remain hopeful the men will eventually be...
KANSAS CITY, Mo (AP) : A stunt pilot was killed in fiery crash during a Kansas City air show on Saturday after his plane appeared unable to get out of a downward spiral and plummeted nose-first into the ground, witnesses and authorities said.But despite...
WASHINGTON (AP):Many illegal immigrants who were facing deportation despite having no criminal record will be allowed to stay in the country and apply for a work permit under new rules from the Homeland Security...
JARRATT, Va. (AP): A Virginia man who raped and suffocated an 88-year-old widow has become the state's first inmate executed using a revised, three-drug cocktail.
LONDON (AP):British police revealed Tuesday that they sent officers to protect major shopping centres and the 2012 Olympics sites after intercepting phone and social-network messages saying they were targets for rioters.
UNITED NATIONS (AP):More than 300,000 children in the Horn of Africa are severely malnourished "and in imminent risk of dying" because of drought and famine, the head of the UN children's agency said Friday.
US officials say embattled Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi may be making preparations for what is described as a last stand in Tripoli as a months-long NATO air campaign continues amid reports of rebel
Nearly two dozen gas stations in the Pacific resort city of Acapulco have shut down simultaneously for three hours to protest growing drug cartel violence in the area.
Israeli airstrikes killed four Palestinian militants in Gaza while Palestinians fired rockets into southern Israel, hitting a synagogue and a school and wounding several Israelis in the aftermath of the deadliest attack against Israelis in three years.
Taliban suicide bombers stormed a British compound in an upscale Kabul neighborhood shortly after dawn Friday, killing eight people during an eight-hour firefight as two English language teachers and their bodyguard hid in a locked panic room.
NOGALES, Arizona (AP):Federal authorities say they've shut down a drug-smuggling tunnel found in the Arizona border city of Nogales.US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents identified the tunnel on Tuesday after seizing more...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP):The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a lawsuit in San Francisco federal court seeking to halt a practice in which alleged illegal immigrants are shackled at the feet, waist and wrists while appearing in immigration...
PENSACOLA, Florida (AP): Nicknamed 'Superman' because of his chiselled 6-foot-3 frame, Marine Lieutenant Patrick Wayland saved his most heroic act for last...
ZAWIYA, Libya (AP):Dozens of opposition fighters surrounded Libya's last functioning oil refinery on Wednesday and laid siege to about 100 government troops, part of a push which brought them closer to seizing this strategic western city....
