WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court declined Wednesday to revisit its recent decision outlawing executions for people convicted of raping children. The unusual request, from Louisiana and the Bush...

STRELNA, Russia (AP) — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday that he sees no ideological grounds for a war with the United States — cold or hot — despite strained relations...

NEW YORK (AP) — A computer is as good as a second pair of eyes for helping a radiologist spot breast cancer on a mammogram, one of the largest and most rigorous tests of computer-aided detection...

MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) — The world's most obese man is getting hitched. Manuel Uribe says he will wed longtime girlfriend Claudia Solis on Oct. 26 in Monterrey, Mexico. The two will be married in...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The judge in the O.J. Simpson armed robbery-kidnapping case says she will release redacted versions of completed juror questionnaires once the trial ends. Clark County District Court...

PARIS (AP) — Dai Fujiwara is not the type to do things by halves. To research the color scheme for his spring-summer 2009 collection for Issey Miyake, shown in Paris on Tuesday, the Japanese designer...

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somali pirates said Tuesday they celebrated a Muslim holiday aboard a hijacked freighter and denied reports that three comrades were killed in a shootout on the vessel,...

CAMERON (AP) — What was to be a leisurely fishing trip turned into a frantic recovery mission for a Leesville man. John Thornton was fishing in Big Lake on Saturday afternoon, when he spotted a life...

HOUMA (AP) — Terrebonne Parish's emergency preparedness director was fired Monday for taking his parish-owned vehicle to an LSU game as Hurricane Ike flooded homes and businesses two weeks ago, officials...

BATON ROUGE (AP) — Booming oil prices that have come to Louisiana's rescue when other income sources have dropped recently may not be enough to fill in revenue gaps next year. Corporate taxes and...

BAGHDAD (AP) — U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker on Sunday accused Iran of trying to interfere with a new security pact between Iraq and the United States, and said Americans need to view Iraq with "a...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian officials say the Amazon is being deforested more than twice as fast as last year. They blame higher global food prices for a sharp increase in illegal logging...