UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Security Council is considering a new resolution that would establish a U.N. mission in Libya, unfreeze assets of two major oil companies and lift a ban on flights by Libyan...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Census figures from 2010 show that nearly 43,000 children under 14 years of age are living with a partner in Brazil in defiance of laws forbidding these unions. Brazil's penal...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Gumby has surrendered. San Diego police say the man accused of trying to rob a convenience store last week dressed as the famous claymation character turned himself in Tuesday, with...

GLENDALE, Calif. (AP) — Residents in a prosperous Southern California neighborhood infested by a pack of coyotes are urging authorities not to trap and kill the animals. The coyotes took up residence...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's tourism minister has resigned amid allegations of misusing public funds. Pedro Novais is the fifth minister to resign since June. No replacement has been named. The...

PAINCOURTVILLE (AP) — Assumption Parish sheriff's deputies say that when a woman was pulled over for a possible seat-belt violation, her passenger pushed her out of the car, took the wheel and drove...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Teams of insurgents firing rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons struck at the U.S. Embassy, NATO headquarters and other buildings in the heart of the Afghan capital...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentines traded blame Wednesday for a bus and train collision that killed 11 people and injured more than 200 at a railroad crossing the day before. A brief clip...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Lawyers for a black man set for execution Thursday are calling on Texas Gov. Rick Perry to halt the punishment because an expert witness told jurors that black criminals...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Former Argentine President Carlos Menem and 17 members of his government were acquitted Tuesday of charges that they violated international weapons embargoes on Ecuador...

(AP) — A state judge has ruled that suspected serial killer Jeffery Lee Guillory spoke "freely and voluntarily" to Baton Rouge police in 2006 and 2009. Tuesday's ruling by District Judge Tony Marabella...

(AP) — The state plans to erect more than 20 miles of additional cable median barriers along Interstate 10 to prevent crossover accidents, including one near a site where five people were killed...