A powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck New Zealand's South Island in the early hours of the morning causing some panic but no immediate reports of...

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates is in the south of Afghanistan after touching down on...

Miami police swooped on the main airport on Friday when screeners detected a suspicious article in a checked...

25 or more people have died in a gunfight between Mexican soldiers and suspected drug gang members near the northern Mexican city of...

Israeli president Benjamin Netanyahu has said it is time to finalize a deal on the Middle East peace...

Two pilots were killed Friday when a Boeing 747 cargo plane crashed on a road just two minutes after it took off from Dubai airport, police...

Three people were killed in a small plane crash Thursday in a lagoon in the US state of California, authorities...

A US general has revealed the Taliban in Afghanistan are very short of money with their drug labs and supply routes under pressure from US...

The relief effort in the area hit by floods in Pakistan may be helped by a new request for Muslims to tithe for the aid...

A new book written by famous British physicist, Stephen Hawking, claims that God did not create the universe and the "big bang" was an inevitable consequence of the laws of...

A fuel tanker is aground on a sandbar in Canada’s far...

Another Gulf coast rig has caught fire, causing the United States Coast Guard to scramble into...

A twelve-year-old girl, riding in a car which was driving through Tapuach Junction in the West Bank, has been hit with a stone which came through the...

Two Mexican federal lawmakers and at least three other people died when their small plane crashed in southern Mexico, police and political officials say.The plane crashed near the Pacific beach...

DUBAI: A cargo aircraft crashed on Friday evening near Dubai international airport. According to the Civil Aviation Authority the plane crashed at Dubai Express Way killing 32 persons in the mishap....

Carolotta Pierce today was charged with assault, reckless endangerment and endangering the welfare of a child in the death of her 4-year-old daughter, who was found weighing just 15 pounds. Cops said...

They'll be working their way back to court, judge.Nearly three hours of closed-door talks yesterday failed to settle a suit filed by Frankie Valli and the producers of "Jersey Boys" over a concert...

In a one-in-a-million twist of fate, a Bronx nurse welcoming a terminal cancer patient discovered he was the father who had vanished from her life when she was just months old. Assistant head nurse...

solidarity with Islamist groups and allow religious figures a greater role in public life , has recently reversed course, moving forcefully to curb the influence of Muslim conservatives in its...

NEW YORK -- One of the investors in a proposed Islamic center near ground zero is a Long Island medical clinic owner who expressed sympathy for Palestinians by donating to a charity later shut down...

Hillary Clinton declares peace is within Israeli and Palestinian interests in Friday night interview with Israeli and Palestinian reporters; Erekat denies report that negotiating teams scheduled to...

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 3, 2010 (IPS) - Twenty-eight minors have been documented as victims of last month's four-day raid of more than a dozen villages centred around Walikale, Democratic Republic of...

LISBON: A Portuguese court sentenced six men to jail on Friday for sexually abusing dozens of children at a state-run care home and procuring boys to be raped at orgies, at the end of a marathon...

JERUSALEM: Observers across the Middle East expressed deep pessimism pierced with glimmers of hope on Friday after the launch of yet another round of Israeli-Palestinian talks in a 17-year-old quest...

Jen Workman and Chris Asbury, both of Charlestown, W.Va., walk along the beach in Virginia Beach as Hurricane Earl moves up the East Coast on...

During the first phase of the act, some businesses employing some 16.6 million workers will be eligible for these tax credits, according to the report released Thursday from...

ST. PAUL — The first known U.S. outbreak linked to a rare strain of E. coli in ground beef is prompting a fresh look at tougher regulations to protect the nation's meat...

AURORA, Ore. -- A small plane crashed into a house near the Aurora Airport Friday afternoon and the pilot walked away with minor injuries. PHOTOS: Plane into home Marion County deputies...

(CNN) -- A Florida judge sentenced Rachel Wade, the 20-year-old woman convicted of second-degree murder for fatally stabbing her romantic rival in a fight last year, to 27 years in prison...

Washington (CNN) -- President Obama will award the Medal of Honor, the military's highest award for bravery, to Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Richard Etchberger for his valor in saving the lives of...

Washington (CNN) -- When the month of Ramadan began, I received a letter from Laura Fattal, the mother of one of the three young American hikers detained in Iran. In it, Fattal appealed to me, the...

Fidel Castro has addressed a rally for the first time since handing the Cuban presidency to his brother Raul in 2006. In a speech at Havana University, Mr Castro warned of nuclear war arising from...

Colombian security forces say they have killed at least 11 left-wing rebels in a clash near the Venezuelan border. The army said troops backed by planes and helicopters captured a camp belonging to...

BP has removed the blowout preventer that should have stopped oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico when a drilling rig exploded in April. The 300-ton device will be examined as part of the inquiry...

A 7.0-magnitude earthquake has struck New Zealand's South Island, causing widespread minor damage and power cuts. The epicentre was 55km (35 miles) north-west of Christchurch, at a depth of 12...

The Shetland film festival has gone to the dogs. In an attempt to reach people who do not normally go to the cinema, it is targeting their pets. The BBC's Mike Grundon went to speak to Kathy...

download Flash from the Adobe download website. No tsunami alert was issued and there appeared to be no serious injuries, but looters broke into some damaged shops in Christchurch, police...

HOUSTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Friday launched an investigation into Mariner Energy Inc's Gulf of Mexico platform fire, according to the U.S. Coast...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investors in Gabriel Capital LP, a so-called feeder fund that funneled money to imprisoned swindler Bernard Madoff, were awarded $12.74 million by a panel of three arbitrators,...

The stock market had its first winning week in a month thanks to better news on the economy. The Dow Jones industrial average jumped 128 points Friday, its fourth straight day of gains. The strong...

With Hurricane Earl on the way, don't be this guy. (istockphoto) (CBS) With Hurricane Earl downgraded to a category 1 storm, but still barreling down on the East Coast, people are clambering...

The next generation Ford Focus 4-door is introduced at the North American International Auto Show Monday, Jan. 11, 2010 in Detroit. Jarvis said dealerships need room for new models like this one, so...

Danny Trejo, Robert DeNiro, Jessica Alba, Steven Segal, and Lindsay Lohan star in Robert Rodriguez's "Machete." Plus, Justin Long and Drew Barrymore in "Going The Distance." CBSNews.com's Karina...

LANCASTER, Pa. - A taxi driver with a history of traffic violations caused a June crash that killed five motorcyclists in central Pennsylvania, authorities said Friday. Alfred Moore, 64, was...

The Eagles confirmed reports that they have traded with Arizona again (former Eagles personnel guy Jason Licht works there now), this time getting 29-year-old guard-tackle Reggie Wells for an...

SEA ISLE CITY, N.J. - An African-American family has reached a second settlement with a New Jersey shore town for more than $100,000 in a racial discrimination lawsuit. Doretha Waters-Rice, her son...

J. Larry Jameson, dean of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, was named Thursday as the next dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and head of the...

Rwandan army of massacring Hutus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the 1990s is corroborated by findings of an international human rights...

OAXACA, Mexico (Reuters) - Two members of Mexico's Congress and two local politicians were killed on Friday when their private plane crashed near a popular Mexican Pacific beach resort, officials...

SUKHUMI, Georgia -- The de facto prime minister of Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia says the return of Georgian refugees to Abkhazia is not possible in the current political circumstances,...