CAIRO (AP) — Thousands of Egyptian police launched a nationwide strike Monday to demand better salaries and a purge of former regime officials from senior security posts.
About 3,000 lower-ranking...
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A 15-year-old student was shot in the neck with what appeared to be a small-caliber bullet during a lunch period outside a North Carolina high school Monday and police have...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah woman accused of trying to sell her 13-year-old daughter's virginity pleaded guilty Monday to two sexual exploitation charges for having the girl model in her underwear...
MUMBAI, India (AP) — More than 200 Indian girls whose names mean "unwanted" in Hindi have chosen new names for a fresh start in life.
A central Indian district held a renaming ceremony Saturday that...
MANSFIELD, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio dentist is offering to buy kids' trick-or-treating booty this Halloween, and he's even throwing in a toothbrush to sweeten the deal.
The Mansfield News Journal reports...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The National Institutes of Health is giving an LSU doctor about $9 million over five years for work toward a vaccine against a major cause of pneumonia in people who have HIV.
Dr....
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A statue of Jesus on U.S. Forest Service land in the mountains over a Montana ski resort faces potential eviction amid an argument over the separation of church and state.
The...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — French Quarter beggars can't be cussers. At least, not intimidating ones.
An ordinance passed last week by the New Orleans City Council bars aggressive solicitation in the city's...
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — An autopsy confirmed that Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi died from a gunshot to the head, the country's chief pathologist said Sunday, just hours before Libya's new leaders...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — The people who started the Arab Spring shared one of its earliest fruits on Sunday: a free election. Tunisians who brought down a dictator nine months ago waited...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Friday declared an end to the Iraq war, one of the longest and most divisive conflicts in U.S. history, announcing that all American troops would be withdrawn...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Roughly 40 foreign ambassadors have gathered in New Orleans for a State Department-sponsored visit designed to promote the region's economic virtues and forge new opportunities...
