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Water companies say the latest downpours will not make much difference to the drought.

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) -- The African Union called on Sudan to stop its aerial bombardment of South Sudan and for both countries to cease hostilities as an uneasy calm settled over the south Wednesday with a lull in violence....

PANMUNJOM, Korea (AP) -- Soldiers from rival North and South Korea eye one another across a thin strip of no man's land that - just barely - keeps their armies apart. The tension, they insist on both sides, is palpable....

PANMUNJOM, Korea (AP) -- Soldiers from rival North and South Korea eye one another across a thin strip of no man's land that - just barely - keeps their armies apart. The tension, they insist on both sides, is palpable....

PANMUNJOM, Korea (AP) -- Soldiers from rival North and South Korea eye one another across a thin strip of no man's land that - just barely - keeps their armies apart. The tension, they insist on both sides, is palpable....

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Defense Secretary Leon Panetta praised Brazil's emergence as a global power Wednesday, urging the nation to become more involved in security efforts around the world by assisting in places like Africa....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Offering riffs on Mick Jagger and reflections on race, President Barack Obama is capping a week devoted to courting young votes with a Rolling Stone magazine cover interview that segues from presidential musings on politics to foreign policy to pop culture....

If you have lived a happy, normal, American life, you have probably never heard of something so tedious and alien as a Miscellaneous Tariff Bill. I envy you. But strange as it sounds, the obscure MTB is at the heart of a very small -- but very significant -- fight for American freedom.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis police have issued arrest warrants for the father and paternal grandmother of a 5-year-old boy taken from a hospital where he was on a heart transplant waiting list.

The department issued a statement Wednesday saying it had issued felony warrants for kidnapping, interfering with ...

Banking giant HSBC is set to announce 2,000 job losses in the UK on Thursday as part of its global cost-cutting plans, reports say.

The Olympic rings are officially unveiled in Cardiff to mark Wales's involvement with London 2012's sporting and cultural events this summer.

DNA testing of arrestees violates the Fourth Amendment, applying a balancing test. King v. State, 2012 Md. LEXIS 211 (April 24, 2012):

Although previously we upheld the constitutionality of the Act, as applied to convicted felons, in State v. Raines, 383 Md. 1, 857 A.2d 19 (2004), the present case presents an extension of the statute, not present in Raines. Thus, we evaluate here rights given to, and withdrawn from, citizens who have been arrested, including the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. Under the totality of the circumstances balancing test, see Knights v. United States, 534 U.S. 112, 122 S. Ct. 587, 151 L. Ed. 2d (2001), we conclude, on the facts of this case, that King, who was arrested, but not convicted, at the time of his first compelled DNA collection, generally has a sufficiently weighty and reasonable expectation of privacy against warrantless, suspicionless searches that is not outweighed by the State's purported interest in assuring proper identification of him as to the crimes for which he was charged at the time. The State (through local law enforcement), prior to obtaining a DNA sample from King following his arrest on the assault charges, identified King accurately and confidently through photographs and fingerprints. It had no legitimate need for a DNA sample in order to be confident who it arrested or to convict him on the first-or second-degree assault charges. Therefore, there was no probable cause or individualized suspicion supporting obtention of the DNA sample collection for those charges. We conclude that the portions of the DNA Act authorizing collection of a DNA sample from a mere arrestee is unconstitutional as applied to King. Although we have some trepidation as to the facial constitutionality of the DNA Act, as to arrestees generally, we cannot exclude the possibility that there may be, in some circumstances, a need for the State to obtain a DNA sample to identify an arrestee accurately.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is praising Brazil's emergence as a global power, urging the nation to become more engaged in security efforts in places like Africa to increase international security around the world....

IRBIL, Iraq (AP) -- Time is running out for the Iraqi government to decide on a power-sharing agreement to end a political crisis roiling the country, the president of Iraq's self-ruled Kurdish region warned Wednesday....

A bomb explosion has wounded four members of Bahrain's police force - two of them seriously - during clashes with protesters, officials say.

LONDON (AP) -- British police on Wednesday asked Portugal to reopen the case of missing girl Madeleine McCann, saying that as the fifth anniversary of her disappearance approaches there is a possibility she is still alive....

LONDON (AP) -- British police on Wednesday asked Portugal to reopen the case of missing girl Madeleine McCann, saying that as the fifth anniversary of her disappearance approaches there is a possibility she is still alive....

Star German high-jumper Ariane Friedrich names an alleged stalker on Facebook, citing self-defence, and the move sparks a new debate about privacy.

An AM is referred to the Welsh assembly's standards watchdog after claims about his behaviour in a luxury hotel after a night out.

Few could accuse Rupert Murdoch of losing his sense of perspective. Amid the threats posed to his global media business interests by the phone-hacking scandal, the media mogul retains an almost childlike fascination for the weather and nature.