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Jennifer Lawless and Kathleen Dolan say women are treated like also-rans on lists of potential vice-presidential candidates, and woefully underrepresented in electoral politics.

Tamar Jacoby says SB 1070 should fall, but if the Supreme Court lets it stand, it should also free states to experiment with policies that combine enforcement with practial approaches

BERLIN (AP) -- Germany's finance minister says he's confident a German-backed pact enforcing more fiscal discipline among European governments will be ratified despite new political uncertainty....

A woman who died while competing in the London Marathon is described as "incredible and inspirational" by her family, as donations top £400,000.

Home Secretary Theresa May says she was given "unambiguous" legal advice about the deadline for an appeal over the deportation of Abu Qatada.

Witnesses in a Norway court have been describing the moments after a bomb went off outside the government headquarters in Oslo last July - killing eight people.

HOUSTON (AP) -- A Houston woman has given birth to sextuplets....

Specks of unexplained DNA were found on the holdall containing the curled-up body of MI6 spy Gareth Williams, an inquest into his death hears.

Two men are found guilty of money-laundering charges following a £2.3m fraud against the Olympic Delivery Authority, the Crown Prosecution Service confirms.

Ugandan authorities suspend a police officer accused of the alleged sexual assault of Ingrid Turinawe, the women's league leader of the opposition Forum for Democratic Change.

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- Jailed former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has gone on hunger strike after prison guards allegedly beat her, her lawyer said Tuesday....

A June preview of Windows 8 will be the closest yet to the final version.

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A federal prosecutor says a man wanted on charges he stole more than $2 million from an armored car he was paid to guard in Pittsburgh, murdering his partner in the process, has been arrested in Florida....

SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Al-Qaida militants staged a surprise attack Monday on a Yemeni army base in the south, killing 22 soldiers and capturing 25 just hours after a U.S. drone strike killed a senior figure in the terror network wanted in connection with the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen....

BEIJING (AP) -- China's leaders are finding it's a lot tougher to create a world-beating electric car industry than they hoped....

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Sudan continued with its aerial bombardment of South Sudan on Tuesday, dropping eight bombs overnight, an official said, as South Sudan's president said the attacks amounted to a declaration of war by Sudan....

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) -- Jordanian prosecutors say authorities have detained a journalist for publishing online statements alleging misconduct by royal officials....

LONDON (AP) -- James Murdoch defended his record at the head of his father's scandal-tarred British newspaper unit before a U.K. inquiry Tuesday, saying that subordinates prevented him from making a clean sweep at the now-defunct News of the World tabloid....

Money continues to pour into a charity fund supported by marathon runner Claire Squires who collapsed and died in the final stages of Sunday's London marathon.

LONDON (AP) -- Drug maker Novartis is taking legal action in Britain to make state-run hospitals use an eye drug that costs about 700 pounds ($1,130) per shot instead of a cheaper one that costs 60 pounds ($97)....