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SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- A Saudi diplomat was kidnapped on his way to work Wednesday in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden, a Yemeni security official said....

In 1819, Chief Justice John Marshall observed that "the power to tax involves the power to destroy." As currently interpreted, it also involves the power to manipulate us into submission.

There could be many billions of planets in our galaxy that are not much bigger than Earth circling the "habitable zones" of faint stars, says an international team of astronomers.

What's really damaging here is the implication that Obama has a hidden second-term agenda.

Energy giant Total was trying Wednesday to contain a gas leak that forced the evacuation of a well off the coast of Scotland.

Like Captain Ahab searching for the Great White Whale, the NFM is constantly on the hunt for proof of America as "Mississippi Burning."

I believe this to be one of our last opportunities to avert a financial crisis unprecedented in our nation’s experience and on a magnitude far greater than that now destroying Greece.

The police should "resist demands to get involved" in the "cash for access" row, the officer who led the cash for honours inquiry - John Yates - says.

American truckers are offering a lesson in transitioning to new sources of fuel in the real world.

A French Jewish official urges vigilance after a reported assault on a Paris schoolboy, the latest anti-Semitic incident reported since the Toulouse murders.

Roger Federer says he "cares dearly" about this summer's Olympic tennis at Wimbledon and feels "massive pressure" to win.

400,000 children in England missed a month of school in the last academic year, government figures show.

UK economic growth in the last three months of 2011 is revised down to a contraction of 0.3%, partly due to the transport sector.

The legal high methoxetamine, or mexxy, is the first drug to be banned temporarily under new powers, the Home Office says.

An oil painting of an old man that has been newly authenticated as a work by Rembrandt is to go on public display at Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire this week.

The families of RAF Bomber Command servicemen say the ticketing process for the unveiling of a memorial has been "confusing and unclear".

Even though Syria has signed off on a U.N.-backed peace initiative, activist groups said there's no evidence yet that the regime is carrying out the plan on Wednesday.

A Supreme Court ruling could allow thousands of insurance claims by families of people who died after exposure to asbestos.

Gunmen have seized the Saudi deputy consul in the southern Yemeni city of Aden outside his home, police say.

Pope Benedict XVI spoke in general terms, saying "Cuba and the world need change," but steered clear of political statements during a Mass he celebrated in Havana's Revolution Plaza on Wednesday.