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102-year-old man becomes US citizen

A 102-year-old Filipino man who came to California as a teenager in 1928 to pick lettuce and cabbage became an American citizen during a touching naturalisation ceremony on Wednesday at the Los Angele

Mexico doctors remove child’s 33-pound tumor

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Mexican doctors say they have removed a 33-pound (15-kilogram) tumor from the body of a 2-year-old child who weighed only 26 pounds (12 kilograms).

Man robs bank, drives to police station, confesses

A suburban Portland man says he was so moved by a documentary exploring the cause of the Great Recession that he decided to rob a bank.

But apparently the film didn't make enough of an impression for

UEFA charges Spain, Russia over fans’ racist abuse

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UEFA has charged the Spanish and Russian football associations for racist chants by fans at the European Championship.

Al-Qaeda trains Norwegian to attack

European security officials say a Norwegian man has received terrorist training from al-Qaeda's offshoot in Yemen and is awaiting orders to attack the West.

Western intelligence officials have long

Texas woman gets $1.4M utility bill in error

A lot of people gripe when they get high summertime electric bills. But Kristin Harriger's bill was nearly $1.4 million.

The Abilene, Texas, woman immediately called her provider, Potentia Energy. Sh

2 women in their 80s parachute for Ohio charity

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Two great-grandmothers in their 80s have parachuted from a plane to raise money for a veterans' food pantry in northwest Ohio.

The Lima (LY'-muh) News reports 83-year-old Marjorie Bryan and 82-year-o

Duct tape prom dress could win Kansas teen $5,000

A Kansas teen has earned a spot as a finalist in a national design competition with a prom dress made entirely from duct tape.

Brooke Wallace, 17, of Solomon, spent more than 200 hours fashioning a w

Biden, in leaked memo, told Obama war plan flawed

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As President Barack Obama considered adding as many as 40,000 U.S. forces to a backsliding war in Afghanistan in 2009, Vice President Joe Biden warned him that the military rationale for doing so was

Egypt president-elect starts consultations on team

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Egypt's new president-elect, Islamist Mohammed Morsi, moved into the office once occupied by ousted leader Hosni Mubarak and started consultations on Monday on forming his team and a new government, a

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.