Al-Qaida claimed responsibility on Thursday for the kidnapping of a 70-year-old American aid worker in Pakistan in August, and issued a series of demands for his release.

In a video message posted on

The most powerful winds to tear across California in years kept 9-year-old Dalen Guyton up late into the night. Then, around midnight, came the boom.

The great yawning tree that stood next to his gra

US secretary of state Hillary Clinton meets Burmese President Thein Sein at President’s Office in Naypyidaw on Thursday.

Inside palace walls built by Saddam Hussein, U.S. generals plotted the war's course, tracked the mounting death toll and swore in new American citizens under gaudy glass chandeliers.

Just outside the

A Utah bird hunter was shot in the buttocks after his dog stepped on a shotgun laid across the bow of a boat.

Box Elder County Sheriff's Deputy Kevin Potter says the 46-year-old Brigham City man was

A group hoping to place a measure before Los Angeles voters that would require porn actors to wear condoms during film shoots said on Wednesday it has gathered more than 64,000 valid voter signatures,

Azra Bashir spoke by phone to her son Usman, holed up in a freezing border outpost on the dangerous Afghanistan-Pakistan border, only hours before NATO airstrikes killed him and 23 other Pakistani sol

Two farmers fed up with alleged bribery demands emptied three bags filled with slithering snakes in a busy tax office in northern India, an official said on Wednesday.

The 40 or so snakes of differen

Horses could soon be butchered in the U.S. for human consumption after Congress quietly lifted a five-year-old ban on funding horse meat inspections, and activists say slaughterhouses could be up and

A supporter of Anna Hazare distributes a pamphlet announcing dates for an upcoming agitation to a passing Army vehicle in New Delhi on Monday. — AP