UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A U.S. envoy has complained that a nearly 3 percent cost-of-living salary hike for approximately 4,800 U.N. staff members serving in New York is unwarranted. Joseph Torsella,...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — About 100 people have been ordered to leave their homes as a wildfire burns outside Yosemite National Park, fire officials said Sunday. Residents of the community...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Two top U.N. officials offered conflicting views Sunday on the safety of its Nigeria headquarters after a suicide car bombing there killed 23 people in the attack claimed by...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — As a recipient of a 2011 NEA National Heritage Fellowship award, a prestigious honor in folk and traditional arts, Mardi Gras Indian chief Bo Dollis will be the center of attention...

HOUMA (AP) — It was an average year for nutria hunters with 338,512 tails turned in. Figures at the Coastwide Nutria Control Program website show that's about 24 percent down from last year's record...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A soldier suspected of killing four people in Pennsylvania and Virginia was found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound in Philadelphia after a daylong manhunt during...

HAMILTON, Bermuda (AP) — Tropical storm Jose spun over the open Atlantic just to the west of Bermuda on Sunday, buffeting the wealthy British territory with winds and intermittent showers. The 10th...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Tens of thousands of Chileans marched peacefully Thursday demanding profound changes in the country's heavily centralized and privatized form of government, while smaller groups...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — African leaders pledged nearly $380 million to help famine-hit families in the Horn of Africa during a donor conference held Thursday. The African Development Bank announced...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Entergy Corp. has reached an agreement with federal regulators to improve its system through which workers at its nuclear power generating plants can report safety concerns. The...

JENA (AP) — One wants to be a lawyer. One, a soldier. Another, a sports agent. Some don't care to talk about their future or that part of their past – five years ago, when they faced up to...