OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (AP) - Fishermen and business owners stung by a summer of lost revenue from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill have until Wednesday to file their compensation claims..

JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he's sure his Cabinet will approve a U.S. proposed slowdown in settlement construction.But, in a statement today, Ne..

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran has set a Feb. 6 trial date for three Americans arrested more than a year ago along the Iraqi border and charged with spying.The trial was to have started ..

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - The Obama administration is facing a new set of worries about North Korea.      A scientist who recently visited the north says a..

WASHINGTON (AP) - Although President Barack Obama is asking his national security team to consider less intrusive airport screenings, travelers may not be seeing any changes soon. ..

Pope Benedict XVI\'s possible shift on condom use is a \"significant and positive step forward,\" the head of the United Nations anti-AIDS campaign said, welcoming the potentially historic remark.

A Chinese man was rescued Sunday after spending 80 hours in a steel shaft that sunk 18 meters (59 feet) underwater, China\'s official Xinhua news agency reported Monday.

A terror operation involving parcel bombs on UPS and FedEx flights in September and October cost $4,200, according to a report in a magazine that analysts say is published by al Qaeda\'s branch in Yemen.

Authorities listed the nationalities Saturday of the 29 miners trapped in a New Zealand coal mine and said gas levels inside are still too high to attempt a rescue.

LEE COUNTY, Fla. - Southwest Florida family and friends have set up an account to benefit an Ohio teen who survived a brutal kidnapping.  Sarah Maynard, 13, was found tied up ..

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - Rescuers are preparing to drill a gas sampling hole into a New Zealand coal mine where a powerful blast Friday trapped 29 workers.The chief executive..

CHICAGO (AP) - The busiest travel day of the year could get even busier this year.      On the day before Thanksgiving, airports could see even more than t..

A top leader of a leftist guerrilla group in Colombia may have been killed during a bombing of a rebel camp, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said Saturday.

Alleged U.S.-born cartel boss Edgar Valdez Villarreal -- alias \"La Barbie\" -- will be extradited to the United States from Mexico, a spokesman for the Attorney General\'s Office in Mexico City said Saturday.

Peru\'s president says Yale University has agreed to return artifacts to the South American country -- a move that could end a lengthy dispute over relics excavated nearly a century ago.

MOUNT VERNON, Ohio (AP) - A coroner says two Ohio women and an 11-year-old boy were stabbed to death before they were dismembered.      Knox County Coroner..

LISBON, Portugal (AP) - President Barack Obama says he understands the frustrations of U.S. airline passengers who are subject to intrusive security screenings.He says he's asked s..

VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Benedict XVI says in a new book that the use of condoms can be justified in some cases, such as for male prostitutes seeking to prevent the spread of HIV.T..

LISBON, Portugal (AP) - President Barack Obama says he's confident the U.S. will be able to go ahead with its troop pullout plan from Afghanistan beginning in July 2011, but it's "..

The head of safety at a Namibian airport has been arrested on suspicion of placing a piece of luggage containing a \"test device\" among the baggage of an Air Berlin flight, the German Interior Ministry said Saturday.