TERESOPOLIS, Brazil (AP) - The death toll from this week's mudslides in Brazil has climbed to nearly 600.      Meanwhile, thousands of traumatized survivor..

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - The Arizona grocery store where Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 18 other people were shot has reopened one week after the mass shooting that killed six people and ..

A weeklong vote in Sudan wraps up Saturday, bringing the country closer to a historic decision that could split it into two.

The body of Michaela Harte-McAreavey, a newlywed killed on her honeymoon in Mauritius, has been returned to her home in Northern Ireland.

A Spanish court is requesting an arrest warrant for alleged Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk.

United States became the second country to offer emergency assistance to more than a million affected by flooding in Sri Lanka.

Armed militants in southwest Pakistan set fire to 10 oil tankers carrying fuel for NATO troops in Afghanistan Saturday morning, police said.

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) - A former police chief in central Louisiana has pleaded guilty to submitting false claims for federal benefits after Hurricane Gustav struck in 2008. Federal ..

Tunisia\'s prime minister announced Friday that he is the interim president of his country\'s embattled government, the latest development in a story of unrest and public outrage in a tiny but significant corner of the Arab world.

One-hundred people died and 14 were injured during a stampede near a religious temple in southern India, the home secretary of Kerala state said.

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) - A Marine died after going down with an amphibious assault vehicle that sank Friday during a training exercise in a harbor in Southern California, auth..

It was like a tsunami from the sky in Brazil\'s Rio de Janeiro state as flood water gushed through hill towns and giant boulders catapulted from hillsides instantly crushing cars and houses.

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) - Three people convicted for helping a man who gunned down four police officers in a Tacoma suburb have been sentenced to prison. Pierce County prosecutors alleg..

At a frenzied Friday rally in this garrison city outside of Islamabad, thousands warned Pope Benedict XVI to keep his nose out of the debate over Pakistan\'s blasphemy laws.

The federal government will loosen restrictions on U.S. relations with Cuba beginning in about weeks, a top White House official said Friday.

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - The suspected gunman in the Arizona mass shooting had photos developed, bought bullets at a Walmart and posted "Goodbye friends" on the Internet before he went..

QUINCY, Mass. (AP) - A woman was arraigned in a Boston hospital bed Friday on accusations that she killed her 8-year-old son and tried to commit suicide by lighting a hibachi grill..

Police say a male model confessed to strangling and castrating a prominent Portuguese television journalist in his posh Manhattan hotel room, according to a court document released Friday.

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says late Ambassador Richard Holbrooke was an extraordinary diplomat with a clear-eyed vision of America's place in the world who "served h..

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri returned to his crisis-plagued homeland Friday, pledging his cooperation in the forming of a new government.