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A confidential U.N. report reveals Iran is exporting arms to the Syrian government in violation of a ban on weapons sales, the same day President Bashar al-Assad blamed the violence in his country on the work of foreign-backed fighters.

Teenager Tumsifu Gilaine and her friends took their final exams with the sound of gunfire nearby before fleeing the latest violence in Congo.

Flesh-eating bacteria are common in the environment, but they rarely infect humans.

Cabinet ministers in Greece's interim government were sworn in Thursday, as the country grapples with a political and economic crisis that could have effects far beyond its borders.

It was a sea rescue made for Hollywood: A horse in a photo shoot on a Southern California beach gets spooked and runs into the water, only to be rescued after swimming more than two miles off shore.

Closing arguments concluded Thursday afternoon in the corruption trial of John Edwards, after his defense team rested its case without calling the former Democratic presidential candidate's ex-mistress to testify.

The family of Mary Kennedy, the estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., blasted accounts of her hanging death for what they called "inaccuracies."

Federal agents have been stymied in their long search for a man who mails envelopes containing white powder and usually a message of some kind.

The University of West Georgia graduate student infected with rare "flesh-eating" bacteria has proven to be "amazingly resilient," her father said Wednesday, and a second apparent case has been reported.

Skechers agreed to pay a hefty $40 million fine to settle charges of deceiving consumers by making "unfounded claims" that its Shape-ups shoes would help people "lose weight, and strengthen and tone their buttocks, legs and abdominal muscles," the Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday.

A wooden ship believed to be over 200 years old was discovered during a recent exploration of the northern Gulf of Mexico, according to a press release from the U.S. National Oceanic and Astmospheric Administration (NOAA).

"The War on Women" is one of the harshest election-year attack lines congressional Democrats have launched at Republicans, accusing them of waging this war on issues ranging from contraception to preventive health care coverage.

Seventeen years after the end of the war, Ratko Mladic gives the impression he is still on the battlefield in what was once Yugoslavia, staring down his enemy, glowering across the courtroom. Even gesticulating death threats.

It had all the appearances of a serious-minded debate: Republicans insisted the Senate spend all day Wednesday arguing which party had better budget proposals to fix the economy.

About 4,700 asteroids are close enough and big enough to pose a risk to Earth, NASA estimated Wednesday after studying data beamed back from an orbiting telescope.

The Senate voted on 5 budget plans Wednesday and rejected them all. CNN's Dana Bash reports.

Alex Castellanos says that Team Obama has turned the onetime candidate of hope and change into a ferociously political animal.

President Barack Obama, in awarding an overdue posthumous Medal of Honor to a Vietnam hero Wednesday, paid tribute to soldiers who received a cold reception when they returned home from the Southeast Asian war.

William Bennett says Gov. Jerry Brown should look to Wisconsin as role model in solving the state's huge budget shortfalls

Mary Kennedy's family confirmed the death. Police earlier said a body was found in an out building at an address Robert F. Kennedy Jr. owned. He had filed for divorce.