In the third terrorist attack in two days, a Pakistani court has been targeted by a suicide bomber leaving at least ten...

US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, has called the timing of the announcement by Isreal of new construction in East Jerusalem...

US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejects challenge brought by doctor against religious references on currency and in the pledge of...

The Pope has defended celibacy as a commitment to God, following increasing allegations of sexual...

Almost Free Warehouse, a chain of stores in Israel, hopes to benefit from the media storm surrounding the Dubai assasination with a parody...

11-year-old Marcelas Owens takes his late mother's place campaigning for healthcare reform on steps of Capital...

Former astronauts who landed on the moon in the hey-day of lunar missions have voiced their concern at President Obama's decision to move back further...

British Airways cabin crew will go on strike for three days from the 20th of March and four days from the 27th of March, says Unite, the union representing...

A teacher in Alaska, whose body was found by snowmobilers, was likely to have been attacked by wolves, according to the State Medical...

Twin suicide bombings in the Pakistani city of Lahore have killed and wounded scores of...

A woman and her husband have been sentenced following rape of eight-year-old...

By Frances D'Emilio ASSOCIATED PRESS VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The Vatican on Saturday denounced what it called aggressive attempts to drag Pope Benedict XVI into the spreading scandals of pedophile...

A man spotted by police snatching a purse was hit by a car and killed on an interstate highway in Dallas, Texas, just before rush hour yesterday afternoon as he attempted to flee.Officials said a...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A suicide squad detonated bombs at a newly fortified prison, police headquarters and two other locations late today, killing at least 30 people in the largest city of...

ROME : Tens of thousands took to the streets of Rome on Saturday to demonstrate against Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi ahead of regional elections. Protesters with banners and balloons in the...

SALT LAKE CITY - Utah's House majority leader has resigned from the state Legislature, two days after his confession about sitting nude in a hot tub with a teenage girl 25 years ago stunned the...

Harry Reid 's wife has been transferred out of a Virginia hospital's intensive care unit and is improving after she was seriously injured in an accident on an interstate highway near...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- More than 170,000 troubled homeowners are breathing a lasting sigh of relief now that they've received permanent modifications under the Obama administration's foreclosure...

Tens of thousands of Italians have been taking part in a protest in Rome's main square against the government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.The demonstrators, called out by the opposition and...

Montreal - A Moroccan-born Montrealer who spent nearly two years behind bars for suspected terror ties, is suing the Canadian government for 24.5 million dollars (about R178-million). Media...

New Internet Controls in China (Financial Times) Google is "99.9 percent" certain it will have to close its Chinese search engine as talks with Chinese authorities about censorship with the Chinese...

Tommy McHugh doesn't paint because he wants to. He paints because he can't stop. McHugh, 60, never particularly wanted to be an artist, reports CBS News Correspondent Mark Phillips. In fact, it...

Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger delivers a speech during a lecture about North Korea's nuclear program, in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, March 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Lee...

By midday at the Jersey Shore, the rainstorm had developed into a classic nor'easter - on steroids. Wind gusts topping 60 m.p.h. in Atlantic City were reported by the National Service as driving...

CLEARWATER, Fla. - Eight Grapefruit League games into March, the Phillies are just now getting into evaluation mode. At some point in the next few days, the club is expected to announce its first...

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- A small surprise this morning in Phillies camp: Scott Mathieson, who was looking to fill one of the final bullpen spots, was among the first players reassigned to minor league...

VATICAN CITY - Germany's sex-abuse scandal has now reached Pope Benedict XVI: His former archdiocese acknowledged that it transferred a suspected pedophile priest while Benedict was in charge, and...

WASHINGTON - The government warned yesterday that those chic baby slings that hip moms and dads are sporting these days can be dangerous and even deadly for their little ones. The Consumer Product...

The Vatican today denounced what it called aggressive attempts to drag Pope Benedict XVI into the spreading scandals of pedophile priests in his German homeland.It also insisted that church...

KABUL, Afghanistan — At least four strong explosions rocked Kandahar on Saturday evening, causing buildings to collapse and killing dozens of people, according to Afghan and American officials....

Russia ’s biggest challenge in preparing to serve as host for the 2014 Winter Olympics seemed to be just mustering the resources to build the facilities in Sochi, a downtrodden Soviet-era...

WASHINGTON - A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction of a reputed member of the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan accused in the kidnapping of two black men who were abducted and killed in...

Of high-performing schools, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan says "we want to get out of their way," but chronically low-performing schools should have to take drastic steps to improve, he...

Baghdad - At least three people were killed and 13 injured Saturday in bomb blasts in Baghdad and the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, police told local media. Police told Baghdad's Aswat al-Iraq...

(Reuters) - Venezuela on Saturday tested six training and light attack jets bought from China for defense and anti-drugs flights in a deal that dodges an embargo banning sales of U.S. weapons parts...

Pelosi: Dems "Close" to Health Care Deal (AP) Newly arrived Republican Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts accused President Barack Obama and Democrats on Saturday of a "bitter, destructive and...

Afghan Civilians Killed in NATO Airstrike (CBS/AP) Four suicide attackers have killed at least 30 in the southern city of Kandahar, according to the half-brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. ...

By Noor Kahn ASSOCIATED PRESS KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) -- The Afghan president's half-brother says at least 30 people have died and dozens more hurt in four suicide attacks in the southern city of...

The monster accused of viciously beating a nurse in the bathroom of a Hell’s Kitchen bar after she rebuffed him on the dance floor was slapped with beefed up charges of attempted murder at his...

Federal investigators looking into corruption involving reconstruction in Iraq say they have opened more than 50 new cases in the past six months by scrutinizing large cash transactions made by some...

03/13/2010 1:45 PM You can be sure this teacher will not call out the Islamic terrorist thugs who enslave their women raise their children to hate and teach them to commit violence against all who...

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu convened his top ministers for a meeting Saturday evening to discuss the fallout of an announcement on construction in Jerusalem made during the visit of US Vice...

Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A series of explosions rocked southern Afghanistan's volatile Kandahar province on Saturday, killing at least 35 people and wounding 47 others, local officials...

(CNN) -- Singer and activist Annie Lennox wants the world to know that the HIV virus and the debilitating condition it causes, AIDS, are the leading killers of women of reproductive age in the...

Current Togo President Faure Gnassingbe, center waves to supporters as he exits a polling station after casting his vote for president, in Lome, Togo Thursday, March 4, 2010. (THE ASSOCIATED...

At least one loud explosion has been heard in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, reports say.The cause of the blast, which happened at about 1530 GMT, was not immediately clear, the interior...

England retained the Calcutta Cup as they fought out a nerve-shredding draw with Scotland, who now look certain to end with the Six Nations wooden spoon. Dan Parks kicked his side into a 9-6...

Germans to Examine What Pope Knew of Abuse (AP) The Vatican on Saturday denounced what it called aggressive attempts to drag Pope Benedict XVI into the spreading scandals of pedophile priests in his...

SEPTA, local labor leaders, and other proponents of I-80 tolls are putting Sen. Arlen Specter (D., Pa.) in the hot seat, demanding that he push Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood to approve the...