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Bahraini authorities released Saturday the daughter of a human rights activist who has drawn international attention and widespread protests with a hunger strike that he's sustained for nearly two months.

Nine miners trapped below ground in the southern Peruvian region of Ica could be rescued Saturday night, state news reported an official as saying.

The shootings of five black adults in Tulsa, Oklahoma, were "vicious and cowardly attacks," Police Chief Chuck Jordan said Saturday.

Three young people recently out of high school run for school board to help former classmates, Athena Jones reports.

Investigators in France are hunting for a suspected serial killer after four fatal shootings with the same weapon in a Paris suburb in the past five months.

Syrian forces are targeting civilians displaced from their homes by earlier fighting, an opposition group said Saturday, three days before a deadline for government forces to withdraw from cities.

Malawi declared 10 days of national mourning Saturday following the death of President Bingu wa Mutharika as citizens of the southern African country awaited word on who will succeed him.

The former commander of Yemen's air force has refused to step down after he was fired as part of a major military shakeup, two defense ministry officials said Saturday.

Three people missing after a Navy fighter hit apartment buildings in Virginia Beach have been accounted for. Officials are still checking under wreckage to make sure there are no casualties.

Thomas Kinkade, one of the most popular artists in America, has died at his California home, his family said.

Congressional investigators are accusing the General Services Administration of violating its employee gift limit with rewards of iPods, digital cameras and other electronics, just as a video emerged of a lavish conference that shows employees drinking and making jokes about wasteful spending.

More than 100 soldiers are trapped after an avalanche in the Siachen glacier, a Pakistani military official said Saturday.

Three people were killed and two were injured Friday in four shootings in north Tulsa, Oklahoma and police are searching for a lone suspected gunman, they said.

This week, Coca-Cola and Kraft announced they are pulling their corporate memberships from a conservative group that was behind the spread of "stand your ground" laws like the one highlighted in Florida by the Trayvon Martin case.

Ilyse Hogue says a consumer campaign caused the soda corporation to back out of a group that has pushed controversial voter-ID and "stand your ground" laws. In a post-Citizens United world it's a preview

Mali state television announced late Friday that the leader of Mali's coup, Captain Amadou Sanogo, and the Economic Community of West African States have agreed to a plan under which the coup leaders will hand over power to the civilian government in exchange for the end of trade and diplomatic sanctions.

A large Southern California nuclear plant is out of commission indefinitely, and will remain so until there is a clear understanding of the causes of problems at two of its generators as well as an effective plan to address them, the nation's top nuclear regulator said Friday.

Ilyse Hogue says a consumer campaign caused the soda corporation to back out of a group that has pushed controversial voter-ID and "stand your ground" laws. In a post-Citizens United world it's a preview

The holder of one of three winning tickets in last week's record $656 million Mega Millions drawing has come forward to claim a share, a Kansas Lottery official said Friday.