NEW YORK (AP) - New York City officials want to take their smoking ban outdoors. City officials announced new legislation on Wednesday that would outlaw smoking in parks, beaches, ..

RISING SUN, Ind. (AP) - A judge will decide whether a southern Indiana teenager who police say strangled his 10-year-old brother to satisfy an urge to kill spends the rest of his l..

NEW YORK (AP) - NBC News says its longtime correspondent and language cop Edwin Newman has died. He was 91. Newman did political and foreign reporting on various NBC News programs ..

ATLANTA (AP) - The government says nearly all U.S. teens have had formal sex education, but only about two-thirds have been taught about birth control methods. The Centers for Dise..

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Homeland Security Department is wasting time and money on its current plan for developing technology to detect nuclear material at the nation's borders, two s..

NEW YORK (AP) - The mothers of two American hikers who have been detained in Iran for more than a year say they hope their sons will be released soon, now that the third hiker has ..

LOVELAND, Colo. (AP) - Crews battling a wildfire in the northern Colorado foothills say the wind may not be as bad as originally predicted, and residents may soon be able to go hom..

An Iranian prosecutor said Wednesday a trial will soon commence for three American hikers, one of whom, Sarah Shourd, was released on bail the day before from a Tehran prison.

Pope Benedict XVI arrives in Britain this week amid outrage over the landmark visit\'s cost to taxpayers and anger over the Vatican\'s record on child abuse and human rights. FULL STORY l PREGNANT NUN AD BANNED

France\'s National Assembly passed a controversial bill to raise the national retirement age Wednesday after a tumultuous legislative session that ran through the night and included insults and name-calling on both sides.

Brandon Fisher has the deep orange hue of someone who has a sunburn on top of a sunburn. The creases under his eyes are evidence of how little sleep he has had lately.

CANCUN, Mexico (AP) - A strengthening Tropical Storm Karl neared the Yucatan Peninsula on Wednesday, bearing down on the resort beaches of the Mayan Riviera. Karl had maximum susta..

Seven people were killed and a woman was wounded early Wednesday morning when American and Iraqi troops raided a number of houses during a military operation in southern Falluja, the deputy governor of Anbar province said.

Guinea\'s presidential runoff election hangs in the balance of a political meeting Wednesday after the death of its electoral commission boss and weekend violence.

Eleven children from the same extended family died over the weekend in a lake in Brazil after the boat they were in overturned, police said.

A 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck the Islas Marias region of Nayarit, Mexico Tuesday, according to U.S. Geological Survey.

The wife of one of the 33 men trapped 2,300 feet below ground in Chile gave birth Tuesday to a daughter, a relative said.

American Sarah Shourd left Iran Tuesday after Iranian authorities freed her from the Iranian prison where she has been held since July 2009, her lawyer told CNN. FULL STORY l WATCH

The Eiffel Tower and the park around it were evacuated Tuesday night after a bomb alert, police said.

The French senate approved Tuesday a law banning any veils that cover the face, including the burqa, the full-body covering worn by some Muslim women. France is the first European country to nationally impose a ban.