BEIJING (AP) — The note posted in July on the Web site of China's food safety inspection agency came from a doctor: There had been a sudden rise in infants turning up at his hospital with kidney...
NEW YORK (AP) — Oil prices briefly spiked more than $25 a barrel Monday, shattering the record for the biggest one-day gain as unease about the government's $700 billion bailout plan pummeled the...
HOUMA (AP) — Victims' relatives sobbed in court Tuesday as a serial killer pleaded guilty to eight slayings and was sentenced to eight consecutive life terms in prison. Ronald Dominique, 44, shackled...
NEW YORK (AP) — The first phone that harnesses Google Inc.'s ambition to make the Internet easy to use on the go was revealed Tuesday, and it looks a lot like an iPhone. T-Mobile USA showed off the...
SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — Republican John McCain called for greater oversight of the Bush administration's proposed bailout of U.S. financial markets on Monday, saying the massive $700 billion plan being...
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — Confessed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed offered Monday to help persuade one of his co-defendants to leave his prison cell for a pretrial hearing...
VIENNA, Austria (AP) — The head of the U.N. nuclear agency says North Korea has asked his agency to remove its seals from the Yongbyon nuclear reactor. The move is raising concerns that the North...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Taliban militants based near the Afghan border and their al-Qaida allies are the most likely suspects behind a massive truck bombing at Islamabad's Marriott Hotel, officials...
SHIJIAZHUANG, China (AP) — China's food safety crisis widened Friday after the industrial chemical melamine was found in milk produced by three of the country's leading dairy companies — prompting...
LANCASTER, Calif. (AP) — Residents of northern Los Angeles County are not grooving to this music. Lancaster city officials said this week that they're paving over a quarter-mile strip of asphalt...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush defended the $700 billion cost of his financial bailout proposal, saying Saturday it needed to be massive so turmoil on Wall Street did not spread to Main Street....
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hurricanes Gustav and Ike left behind at least $8 billion in physical damage in Louisiana and the cost already could be as high as $20 billion, a state agency said Thursday.The...
