Doctors say a seamstress who was rescued 17 days after the eight-story building collapsed is recovering in a hospital, but is exhausted, panicked and dehydrated. Her discovery in the rubble…
Defying the danger of militant attacks, Pakistani voters streamed to the polls Saturday on the outskirts of Islamabad for a historic vote pitting a former cricket star against a two-time…
O.J. Simpson will return to court in Las Vegas on Monday.Isaac brekken/Associated Press His 1995 trial is the stuff of legends, the precipitous fall of a Hall of Fame football…
Children play basketball at a park near blighted row houses in Baltimore, Md. Within the last year, national polls in the United States indicate that seven in 10 Americans say…
The detention sparked a wave of anger among activists and the April 6 youth movement, which was at the forefront of the country’s 2011 uprising, called for nationwide protests, including…
The towers, which are operated by contractors for the FAA at low-traffic airports, had been scheduled to close June 15. They will now remain open at least through Sept. 30,…
Surveillance video showed the couple going over the railing about the same time with a brief pause between them, New South Wales Police Superintendent Mark Hutchings said. It was not…
Beatrice Degrugillers, a spokeswoman for the regional health agency in France’s Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, said a nurse at the hospital where the man was hospitalized in late April has herself been…
The reversal followed a court order backing the right of the women to pray at the Western Wall using religious rituals Orthodox Jews insist should be practiced only by men.…
Keith Thorpe/The Peninsula Daily News<br><br><br><br>A crushed truck and a house knocked off its foundation sit as part of the aftermath of a rampage by a man driving a logging bulldozer…
A three-member tribunal also found Rios Montt guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced him to 80 years in prison. Enigmatic, with a stern face and a thunderous voice, he…
“He threatened me lots of times with it,” said Castro’s nephew, 26-year-old Angel Caraballo, who was terrified of his uncle as a little boy and unnerved by him as an…
As the investigation into the women’s ordeal continued, the FBI also said no human remains were among more than 200 pieces of evidence collected from the house. Two of the…
Behind the scenes, the White House readied a campaign-style effort to get healthy young people to sign up for the insurance “exchanges” in order to keep premium costs from skyrocketing.…
Simpson will take the witness stand to testify that the Florida lawyer who collected nearly $700,000 is to blame for his armed robbery and kidnapping conviction in 2008 and his…
Ferdinand Marcos’ widow is widely expected to win in Monday’s congressional polls. Approaching 84, she is nearing the final chapter of a tumultuous political life in which she once astounded…
However, it remained unclear why the Artemis flipped on Thursday, trapping crew member Andrew “Bart” Simpson under the wreckage for at least 10 minutes. America’s Cup organizers also said Friday…
The 408-foot spire at the top of 1 World Trade Center was put into place Friday.Mary Altaffer/Associated Press The new 1 World Trade Center reached that height with the lowering…
The average level of carbon dioxide over the past five days is 400.03 ppm. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the greenhouse gas that is responsible for 63 percent of the warming…
Senior State Department officials pressed for changes in the talking points that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice used after the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya last September.Associated…
IRS agents singled out dozens of organizations for additional reviews because they included the words “tea party” or “patriot” in their exemption applications, said Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS…
Survivor Reshma Begum lies on a stretcher Friday after being pulled out from the rubble of a building that collapsed in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. Begum was buried in the…
Volunteers pick up government work
They’re just a little behind Major, the boy’s name that jumped the most spots on the Social Security Administration’s annual list of popular baby names. Jacob is the most popular…
The first lady and Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, hosted an afternoon tea at the White House on Thursday to recognize the mothers. Prince Harry, who is…
U.S. officials have made no final announcement about how many troops might remain in Afghanistan after 2014, although they have said as many as many as 12,000 U.S. and coalition…
This image provided by the Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s office shows the Cuyahoga County Corrections Center booking photo of Ariel Castro, 52, after he was ordered to be held on $8…
