A man was fatally bitten at the beach by a shark as large as 13 feet.

17 people were killed in an overnight attack on a post manned by a government-backed militia.

Mr. Bogdan said Lockheed and Pratt were trying to "squeeze every nickel" out of the U.S.

Tens of thousands flood St. Peter's Square for Pope Benedict XVI's final general audience.

Thousands gather in St. Peter's Square a day before Benedict XVI's retirement.

Americans are reacting with a collective yawn to Washington's latest budget crisis.

Two detectives are shot and killed while investigating a sexual assault complaint; suspect also fatally shot.

World powers offer to lift some sanctions if Tehran scales back nuclear activity.

Robin Kelly wins the Democratic nomination in the race to replace Jesse Jackson Jr.

A shark possibly 14 feet long killed a swimmer near a popular New Zealand beach on Wednesday, then disappeared after police attempting to save the man fired gunshots at the enormous predator.

Ghana's Peter Turkson is the favorite to replace retiring Pope Benedict, say Irish bookmakers.

A powerful winter storm that buried the U.S. Plains and left at least three people dead moved on Tuesday into the southern Great Lakes region, where it snarled the evening commute in Chicago and Milwaukee, created near-whiteout conditions and forced hundreds of flight cancellations. Much of the region was under either a winter storm warning or a winter weather advisory, according to the National Weather Service, as the system's potent blend of wet snow, sleet and strong winds bore down on north central Illinois, southern Wisconsin and northern Indiana and Ohio. ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The head of Mexico's powerful teachers' union was arrested at an airport near Mexico City Tuesday for alleged embezzlement, with federal officials accusing her of using union funds to pay for plastic surgery, to buy a house in San Diego and even to pay her bill at Neiman Marcus.

Two Santa Cruz police officers were shot and killed Tuesday while investigating a sexual assault, and a suspect was also fatally shot, authorities said.

BALTIMORE (AP) — Mary J. Corey, the first woman to hold the top editorial post at The Baltimore Sun, died Tuesday of breast cancer. She was 49.

The Obama administration, in coordination with some European allies, is for the first time considering supplying direct assistance to elements of the Free Syrian Army as they seek to ramp up pressure on Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down and end nearly two years of brutal and increasingly deadly violence.

A young California couple feared by family to have been abducted while on a cycling trip through Peru have safely surfaced on a river boat headed for Ecuador, surprised to learn they were subjects of an international search, the Peruvian government said on Tuesday. "The American tourists are continuing to enjoy their trip in the Peruvian Amazon," the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism said in a statement, adding that a national police official had spoken with the couple and found them to be "in good health. ...