If Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is worried that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is complicating the Bush administration's foreign policy with freelance campaign diplomacy, she isn't showing it.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown suffered a stunning setback when his party was defeated in a Labour stronghold in Scotland. His leading opponent demanded Friday that Brown call an early national election.
Officials say three people have been shot at a community college in Phoenix. Fire department division chief Mark Faulkner says a 25-year-old man and a 22-year-old woman wounded at South Mountain Community College are in critical condition, and a 17-year-old boy is in stable condition.
New Zealand students protesting the Iraq war offered a reward to anyone who carries out a citizen's arrest of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during her visit to the country Friday.
Jul 25 - Footage captured on a mobile phone shows the moment when a Qantas plane was forced to make an emergency landing following a rupture in the planes fuselage.
U.S. Attorney Troy Eid says escaped convict, his wife and 3-year-old daughter were found slain outside a farm house east of Denver on Thursday in an apparent murder-suicide.
A plastic surgeon fired by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center after he appeared to fall asleep while performing a liposuction has had his license to practice medicine suspended by the state.
Sri Lankan troops fought off an attack early Friday by Tamil rebels trying to recapture lost territory, as violence in the northern battle zone killed 42 rebels and three soldiers, the military said.
The chief executive of BP's Russian arm says a campaign of harassment has forced him to quit the country amid an increasingly bitter fight for control of the firm.
Brett Favre has told the Green Bay Packers he plans to report to training camp this weekend, according to an NFL Network report Friday _ a move perhaps designed to force the team to quickly work out a trade for the three-time MVP.
The State Department urgently needs to overhaul the way it handles passport applications to avoid a repeat of the massive backlogs last summer that frustrated countless travelers, congressional investigators concluded.
One of South Africa's leading female jurists who won acclaim defending apartheid opponents was nominated Thursday to serve as the next United Nations high commissioner for human rights.
