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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Hundreds of Venezuelans rallied Saturday to welcome President Hugo Chavez home from Cuba, where he underwent cancer surgery to remove a tumor....

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Pope Shenouda III, the patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church who led Egypt's Christian minority for 40 years during a time of increasing tensions with Muslims, has died. He was 88....

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Pope Shenouda III, the patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church who led Egypt's Christian minority for 40 years during a time of increasing tensions with Muslims, has died. He was 88....

BANGKOK (AP) -- State media in Thailand say the self-made Thai billionaire who created the renowned Red Bull energy drink three decades ago has died. He was 89....

Sunday Times photographer Paul Conroy, injured in an attack on the Syrian town of Homs, says he believes diplomatic efforts to establish peace in Syria have failed.

Hundreds of people have attended the funeral service in Stafford for PC David Rathband, who was shot and blinded by Raoul Moat.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Syria has told international envoy Kofi Annan in a letter obtained Saturday by The Associated Press that it is "keen to end violence" but insists that armed opposition groups give up their weapons first....

BERLIN (AP) -- John Demjanjuk was convicted of being a low-ranking guard at the Sobibor death camp, but his 35-year fight on three continents to clear his name - a legal battle that had not yet ended when he died Saturday at age 91 - made him one of the best-known faces of Nazi prosecutions....

20 years ago, first lady-to-be Hillary Clinton's "cookies" comment roiled moms and stoked political debate, Kirsten Swinth says. But in hindsight, it reflected the dawn of the working family

Dean Obeidallah says stifling political comedians risks chilling free expression

A U.S. soldier accused of a shooting rampage that left 16 people dead in southern Afghanistan has been identified by officials as Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, a decorated combat veteran who once exhorted against the killing of civilians.

LAKE TAPPS, Wash. (AP) -- On a winding road of wood-frame homes tucked amid towering trees, Robert Bales was the father who joined his two young children for playtime in the yard, a career soldier who greeted neighbors warmly but was guarded when talking about the years he spent away at war....

Wales clinch a third Grand Slam in eight years as they edge past France at a delirious Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.

Welsh fans are celebrating a third Six Nations Grand Slam in eight years after Wales beat France at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's parliament speaker on Saturday compared Israel to a barking dog that won't dare attack the Islamic republic over its controversial nuclear program....

KHMIS SAHEL, Morocco (AP) -- Escape for 16-year-old Amina Filali from her marriage came in the form of a pill of rat poison she bought in the market for 60 cents....

Women's rights activists in Morocco protest outside parliament to demand repeal of a law allowing rapists to avoid prosecution by marrying their victims.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- After a few months of relative peace on the budget front, Democrats and Republicans are readying for a party-defining, election-year fight over trillion dollar-plus deficits and what to do about them....

A professional footballer is taken to hospital with a suspected concussion following a car crash in Greater Manchester.

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- Tens of thousands of people have been displaced in Mali after Tuareg rebels began attacking towns, the Red Cross and an Algerian official said....