A senior US security official has reportedly said that al-Qaeda is regrouping itself in tribal areas along the Pakistan-Afghanistan...

Patrick Waller has become a free man in the US after being wrongly convicted and imprisoned for more than 15...

US experts, investigating the collapse of the third tower at the World Trade Center, say building fires on several different floors probably caused the collapse....

North Korea has refused to take further steps to dismantle its nuclear...

The number of Indian tourists to Britain has grown by 170 percent since 1993, and they are outspending American visitors, a report said...

The heart of Toronto city turned into a mini-Bengal as more than 50,000 Bengalis from North America and India descended on the Metro Toronto Convention Centre to join in what has been billed as the biggest Bengali cultural show outside West...

New York, July 5 : Elderly folk across the United States are experiencing a shortage of gas supply due to soaring gasoline...

New York, July 5 : Even though most celebrities find the paparazzi annoying, Barbadian singer Rihanna has admitted that she will choose them any day, over screaming...

New York, July 5 : English screenwriter and film director Guy Ritchie was spotted drowning his sorrows at the same London pub where he and Madge used to hang...

New York, July 5 : Stop giving money to Barack Obama! Don't volunteer for him! That's the biting message from some unhappy precincts of Obama...

New York, July 5 : Union Steel Minister and Lok Jan Shakti Party chief Ram Vilas Paswan began the Fifth International Convention of 'Dalit and Minorities' Seminar in New York on Friday....

Melbourne, July 5 : American Joey Chestnut retained his crown at the annual hot dog eating contest in the Big Apple by gulping down a whopping 64 hot dogs in just 10...

New York, July 5 : US Congressman Gary Ackerman who returned home after a two-day visit to Pakistan and talked with the region's residents, tribal leaders and troops as well as Pakistani government officials, including Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, has said that he deliberately did not meet President Pervez Musharraf because "he was a terrible...

London, July 5 : Emmy Award winning American television show High School Musical made a record breaking 20 million pounds from sale of its tickets in the...

California firefighters appear to be holding two bushfires burning along the California...

Americans across the United States are celebrating Independence Day Friday, commemorating the country's birth as a nation 232 years...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia - President Bush invoked the memory of Thomas Jefferson Friday in welcoming new U.S. citizens at a naturalization ceremony at Monticello, saying "I'll be proud to call you a...

Posted on: Saturday, 5 July 2008, 09:00 CDT By Lee Logan, Tulsa World, Okla. Jul. 5--Lantzey Rutledge has watched her brother Paul battle melanoma for the past year. After the first three months,...

Lawrence Summers, a treasury secretary in the Clinton administration, predicted that more than 2 million foreclosures are coming over the next two years and that as many as 15 million homeowners will...

In this Friday, June 21, 2002 file photo, visitors and residents spend the day on the beach in Belmar, N.J. Revelers in this Jersey shore party town can now legally drink from unregistered beer kegs...

There have been 943 reported cases nationwide, with at least 130 hospitalizations since mid-April after the first salmonella illnesses appeared, the Food and Drug Administration said Saturday. That...

WHITE HOUSE (AP) - President Bush heads to Japan today to take part in his final G-8 summit. At the top of the agenda are soaring oil prices and the struggling world economy, plus global warning. ...

Roly Sussex, linguistics expert from University of Queensland said that teenagers are very susceptible to imitating what they saw as being "snazzy or powerful". "It's called the prestige model....

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush, serving almost seven years as a wartime president, marked the nation's 232nd birthday by honoring the U.S. armed forces and celebrating the citizenship of...

New York City store owner wills discs to Syracuse University 200,000 records weigh 50 tons, worth $1 million University's collection of 78s is second only to Library of Congress' Donor wanted...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Americans across the country mixed patriotism and plain old good fun to mark Independence Day on Friday, with solemn ceremony alternating with parades and hot-dog-eating...

A car thief on Thursday night found a bomb-laden van wired to detonate by remote control that likely had been sitting there for more than five months, sources said. Investigators believe the homemade...

(AP Photo/Joe Marquette, file)In this June 17, 1999 photo, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., makes his opening statement at Richard Holbrooke's confirmation...

By John LohnOMAHA, Nebraska, July 4. TWO years ago, he emerged as the next great 50 freestyler from the United States. Now, Cullen Jones is the American-record holder. Jones scorched the field during...

By John LohnOMAHA, Nebraska, July 2. THE rest of the world must be shaking their heads. Can the United States actually be this talented in the 200 freestyle? In a field that was absolutely loaded,...

By John LohnOMAHA, Nebraska, July 2. IF the French thought the United States would roll over and allow the 400 free relay title to reside in Europe, they were badly mistaken. As the preliminaries of...

By John LohnOMAHA, Nebraska, July 1. ONLY a handful of athletes are capable of handling a multi-event schedule, what with the demands placed on the body and the mind. Katie Hoff negotiates the...

OMAHA, Nebraska, July 4. BEN Hesen pulled a surprise American record during time trials at the U.S. Olympic Trials today with a 50 back American record as part of a 100 back swim.Hesen, who checked...

reports. The move would make businesses more competitive, the administration argues, but it would also effectively exempt them from the investor-protection measures instigated after the collapse of...

By WILLIAM KATESASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- A vast collection of 78 rpm records - valued at $1 million, weighing 50 tons and representing more than a half-century of American music...

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department is considering letting the FBI investigate Americans without any evidence of wrongdoing, relying instead on a terrorist profile that could single out Muslims,...

A reader's curiosity about where that oil ends up - and who profits from its sale - inspired one of three questions in this edition of "Ask AP," a weekly Q&A column where AP journalists respond to...

-- People lined up to be sworn in as new U.S. citizens were unwitting witnesses Friday to a constitutional lesson at President Bush's expense on the grounds of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. ...

) July 5, 2008 -- There is an old saying that "tough times create tough leaders" and Texas native Demetrice Etheridge has perfected that role via the rollout of his Business Model helping...

Alison Moyet isn't one of those '80s stars stuck in the past. Sure, she's in the middle of the much-anticipated Yaz reunion tour, teaming up with synthesizer wiz Vince Clarke for the first time...

Pervez Musharraf supervised a shipment of uranium centrifuges to North Korea in 2000, the disgraced architect of Pakistan's atomic weapons program said Friday.The claim is the most controversial...

Melville , blamed Nassau court officials for the disappearance. After New York City police began probing her abuse claims, the woman was told last week by a court official to leave Odyssey House, a...

Workers continue preparations on a super yacht at Trinity Boats in New Orleans, Tuesday, April 29, 2008. These days at New Orleans-based Trinity Yachts, the largest domestic builder, the biggest...

(AP Photo/ Tony Avelar)A firefighter uses a drip torch to start a backfire on a wildfire burn in Big Sur, Calif., Friday, July 4, 2008. The raging blaze near Big Sur was one of more than 1,700...

MIAMI (AP) — The call girl involved in a scandal that brought down New York's former governor has dropped a lawsuit claiming Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis exploited her image and name on...

Despite a three-month head start, Senator John McCain has struggled to solidify lines of attack against Senator Barack Obama for the general election, Republican operatives say and some of his own...

Yankee Stadium has a history of drama on the Fourth of July. There was Lou Gehrig's farewell speech in 1939, and Dave Righetti's no-hitter against Boston in 1983. It's George Steinbrenner's birthday,...

GOP Sen. John Warner asks for report on speed limit's link to gas saving, fuel prices Congress set 55 mph limit in 1974; it was repealed in 1995 Warner says limit saved 167,000 barrels of oil a day,...

MILWAUKEE (AP) — At least one gunman fired into a crowd of more than 100 people partying in the street early Friday, killing four of them, police...

The National Park Service is considering reopening Lady Liberty’s crown for the first time since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, according to documents a congressman released on July...