Iranian- and Syrian-backed Shiite opposition gunmen seized control of several Beirut neighborhoods from Sunni foes loyal to the U.S.-backed government on Friday.

The once-formidable fund-raising machine of Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton has begun to sputter at the worst possible moment for her presidential campaign, Clinton advisers and donors said Thursday.

A spokesman for Democrat Barack Obama's presidential campaign says he's won the endorsements of two more superdelegates.

Missiles, tanks and other heavy weaponry rolled through Moscow's Red Square in the annual Victory Day parade Friday, reviving a tradition of the Soviet era and demonstrating Russia's growing military confidence.

A man seized by Iraqi forces is not the head of al-Qaida in Iraq, the U.S. military said Friday, despite earlier announcements by several Iraqi officials that Abu Ayyub al-Masri had been captured.

After snubbing a U.S. aid offer, Myanmar indicated Friday that it wants foreign relief to help recover from a devastating cyclone but not foreign workers.

Sen. John McCain championed legislation that will allow a land swap that now stands to directly benefit one of his top presidential campaign fundraisers.

A federal arts commission is urging that the sculpture of Martin Luther King Jr. proposed for a memorial be reworked because it is too "confrontational" and reminiscent of political art in totalitarian states.

Boston's Big Three of Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen led the Celtics to a 89-73 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Thursday night in the best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinals.

The defending champs are showing some life after all. Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker each scored 31 points as the San Antonio Spurs beat the New Orleans Hornets on Thursday, cutting their series deficit to 2-1 in the Western Conference semifinals.

Hand-scrawled bishop's records taken from a polygamist sect are helping untangle the network of family relationships at the Texas ranch, where some husbands had more than a dozen wives.

A construction company owner who lost two homes in Hurricane Katrina claimed a $97 million Powerball prize, a jackpot won off a ticket he bought at a convenience store where he stopped to buy his wife a gallon of milk.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert admitted on Thursday taking cash from a U.S. businessman but resisted calls to resign over a police investigation into alleged hefty bribes over almost a decade.

The most naive move was made on “Survivor” when the winner of the immunity challenge gives up the necklace and seals their fate before a hysterical jury.

Since they first walked the planet, humans have either buried or burned their dead. Now a new option is generating interest — dissolving bodies and flushing the residue down the drain.

Federal regulators said Thursday they are investigating how an American Airlines jet lost a panel from its belly shortly after taking off from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport before continuing on across the Atlantic and landing safely in Paris.

Live-action adaptation of classic TV cartoon will test your limits for retina-scorching color, loud noise, frenetic action

Country music superstar Eddy Arnold, a pioneer of "The Nashville Sound," also called "countrypolitan," a mixture of country and pop styles, has died, according to his biographer.

President Bush stuck out his right elbow Thursday, jokingly demonstrating how he'll escort his daughter down the aisle at her wedding this weekend.

Science has provided the souped-up seeds to feed the world, through biotechnology and old-fashioned crossbreeding. Now the problem is the dirt they're planted in.