The U.S. Marines announced that a court-martial would begin Wednesday for an officer involved in the investigation into an alleged massacre in Haditha, Iraq.

U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., told Cuban-Americans at an independence day banquet in Miami Friday that he supports direct diplomacy with Havana.

Significant regional strategic divisions between the United States and Israel are coming to light, the Wall Street Journal says.

U.S. National Guard officials say they are improving methods for simultaneously managing duties abroad and domestic emergency-response obligations.

Majorities in Germany and France want their leaders to skip the Olympics opening ceremonies in Beijing this summer, a poll indicated.

The suspect takes about four minutes to shut off the water and pull the pipes out of the toilets and urinals.

Meters in this north-central Illinois city cost a penny for 12 minutes.

COLUMBIA, Mo. - After years of helping, a search-and-rescue dog named Molly has been rescued herself.

A U.S. businessman central to the bribery investigation of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert must begin testifying next week, an Israeli court ruled Friday.

The New York Transit, through spokesman Charles Seaton, defended the new policy implemented the past few weeks, as its way of making the riding public more comfortable by setting exclusive window hours for its maintenance staff to clean the toilets.

Human Rights Watch accused the U.S. government Thursday of trying to negotiate dangerous loopholes in a new treaty on cluster bombs.

Former FBI investigator Eugene Debbaudt, who investigated the 1991 robbery for nearly 10 months, alleged that Carmine Jannece's plan to use masks of former U.S. presidents just like in "Break" was only part of a more sophisticated plan, the Grand

A high-level British court will hear arguments this week in a press-freedom case in which police are attempting to use anti-terrorism laws to force a journalist to turn over notes and other source material. Leading British journalists argue that the

Sheriff's Lt. Brodie Hughes said the alligator bit the deputy on the leg and a second deputy shot and wounded the gator, the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel reported Friday. The deputies were responding to witness reports of an alligator in the

The city Department of Education's Office of Instructional Technology has been offering teachers the courses, which include a lesson planned Friday on how to use cell phones to search word definitions, currency exchange rates and maps on the Google Web

A spokesman for Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami said Cameron Fritzson, 20, was in critical condition when he arrived at the hospital, but his condition has been upgraded to serious, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported Friday. Fritzson reportedly planned to