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A bomb plot by a Yemen-based al-Qaeda group involving an updated "underwear bomb" was foiled by insider infiltrating a terror cell, US officials say.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. bomb experts are picking apart a sophisticated new al-Qaida improvised explosive device, a top Obama administration counterterrorism official said Tuesday, to determine if it could have slipped past airport security and taken down a commercial airplane....

Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat is in hospital in Ramallah after suffering a heart attack, his wife says.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin voters filed into polling stations Tuesday to decide whether to give Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett a rematch against Republican Gov. Scott Walker in next month's rare recall election or whether to back one of Barrett's fellow Democrats....

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin voters filed into polling stations Tuesday to decide whether to give Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett a rematch against Republican Gov. Scott Walker in next month's rare recall election or whether to back one of Barrett's fellow Democrats....

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi received her first passport in 24 years on Tuesday ahead of a planned trip to Norway and Britain....

Steve Watson | Footage shows Texas Rep. swatting screener's hand away from his genitals.

LONDON (AP) -- Britain must stick to its tough austerity measures despite doubts elsewhere in Europe over the best remedy to fix the continent's stalled economies, Prime Minister David Cameron insisted Tuesday....

Dick Lugar will lose Indiana's GOP Senate primary to Richard Mourdock, CNN projects. Mourdock had the tea party's support against Lugar, a foreign policy expert.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democrats are hoping that late campaign appearances by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will help push her hand-picked successor to victory in a special congressional election in Arizona....

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- A U.N. nuclear inspector from South Korea was killed Tuesday and a colleague was injured in a car crash near a reactor site in central Iran, news reports said....

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece's commitment to austerity is no longer valid because voters have rejected those deals, a left-wing party leader declared Tuesday as he tried to form a new coalition government....

The scientific maverick James Lovelock says climate catastrophe is not so certain as he previously suggested.

A campaign by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford to buy a painting by French Impressionist Edouard Manet receives a £5.9m donation.

A murder trial hears how a Chinese take-away delivery driver was punched, kicked and stamped to death by two men.

A paralysed woman has become the first person to complete a marathon in a "bionic" suit.

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unveiled a revamped coalition government on Tuesday, forming a broad alliance with the chief opposition party that could free his hand to take action on peace with the Palestinians and decide whether to attack Iran....

The video showed defendant crossing the centerline repeatedly. There was probable cause for his stop, despite his contention that state law was not violated. “Additionally, as noted by the officer and demonstrated by the video, the defendant's driving pattern indicated that he might be impaired, also warranting an investigatory stop.” United States v. Benitez, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 62913 (N.D. Ala. April 4, 2012).*

Defendant probationer consented to a search of his cell phone and pictures of him holding guns were revealed, and that justified a probation search of where he lived. United States v. Peila, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 63036 (D. Nev. April 3, 2012).*

Defendant filed a general motion to suppress which was heard before trial, but only statements made at the time of arrest were discussed. A gun was also seized in Tennessee, and it was never mentioned. At trial, the gun was not objected to. On appeal, the issue of the seizure of the gun was waived. Rockholt v. State, 2012 Ga. LEXIS 446 (May 7, 2012).*

Drug officers stopped defendants based on a request to stop him so used the fact that one of three taillights was out. But, Arizona law just says that “a stop light” needs to work, and this is a mistake of law because defendants otherwise were committing no traffic violation. The subsequent consent derived from the illegal stop, and it’s all suppressed. United States v. Pro, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 63058 (D. Ariz. May 3, 2012).*

NEW YORK (AP) -- Maurice Sendak, the children's book author and illustrator who saw the sometimes-dark side of childhood in books like "Where the Wild Things Are" and "In the Night Kitchen," died early Tuesday. He was 83....

A woman accused of killing Belfast man Christopher Mackin in March was "impersonated" to put in her in the frame, a court hears.