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...

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — The chief of Libya's revolutionary movement told thousands of cheering Libyans in Tripoli on Monday to strive for a civil, democratic state, while loyalists of the hunted dictator...

BASTROP, Texas (AP) — Paying attention in class may never have been so hard for children who started school Monday after the most destructive wildfire in Texas history left hundreds of their families...

CIUDAD DEL CARMEN, Mexico (AP) — Six oil workers who were rescued alive after floating for three days in the Gulf of Mexico are stable and conscious, though suffering from bumps and bruises and sunburnt...

(AP) — An undercover investigation ongoing since April has led to charges against 48 accused drug dealers in Ascension Parish for distributing cocaine, heroin and other illegal substances. U.S. Attorney...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A school policeman who claimed to have been shot while on patrol, sparking a massive manhunt and a school lockdown, was convicted Monday of fraud and other offenses for making...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina is the only southeastern state without a gay marriage ban in its constitution. The idea has gone nowhere in the past as Democratic leaders quashed Republican efforts...

VERACRUZ, Mexico (AP) — A weakened Tropical Storm Nate made landfall on Mexico's Gulf coast Sunday, where officials opened shelters as a precaution but said the storm was having little impact. Nate...

(AP) — Baton Rouge police say a 21-year-old man has turned himself in for the shooting deaths of a 76-year-old woman and two teenage women, and the wounding of a man who survived. Cpl. L'Jean McKneely,...