A new installation celebrating the Czech Republic's six-month presidency of the European Union has achieved the ultimate accomplishment of any piece of art: it created a sensation.
The secretary of the Senate on Tuesday turned Roland Burris away from taking the seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama.
The Minnesota state Canvassing Board certified results showing Democrat Al Franken the winner of the state's contested Senate race on Monday.
A British World War II hero who fought valiantly in North Africa despite severe wounds has died 68 years after he was "posthumously" awarded the nation's highest combat honor by officials who thought he had been killed.
The mother of Levi Johnston, the 18-year-old boyfriend of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's teenage daughter, has been arrested on drug charges, the Anchorage Daily News reported Friday.
Investigators announced Friday that remains found near the home of Caylee Anthony were those of the missing girl.
Russian warships will visit U.S. foe Cuba for the first time since the Soviet era, the navy said Monday.
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Bare footprints on a toilet seat led sheriff's deputies to find a man hidden away inside a Baxter County gas station ceiling, apparently "on a mission" to steal, officials said Tuesday.
A former White House executive "lied, denied and misled" when officials investigated his relationship with disgraced Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff, federal prosecutors said Tuesday as they tried to restore their overturned conviction of David Safavian.
In an effort to get more high school graduates to go to college, the Texas A&M University system is offering free tuition for incoming freshmen who maintain a 2.5 grade-point average.
A Dutch court says two men are guilty of grave robbery and should each serve 18 months in prison for stealing a gold watch and chain from a man's corpse.
I am sick and tired of the assault on Christmas and Christianity, so I go out of my way to say "Merry Christmas" to everyone I come in contact with.
Armed robbers - some disguised as women - snatched euro85 million ($108 million) worth of diamond rings, necklaces and luxury watches from a Harry Winston boutique on a posh Paris avenue in one of the largest jewel heists in history, officials said Friday.
The Danish navy says it has intercepted and sunk a suspected pirate vessel drifting off Somalia.
Russia's sole aircraft carrier and several accompanying ships set off Friday for the Atlantic and the Mediterranean - the latest in a series of efforts aimed to demonstrate the Kremlin's global reach.
After more than 90 years, the Russian stars will no longer be all red. They'll be red, white and blue.
An American who killed three people in a head-on collision after driving on the wrong side of the road in Britain was jailed for 20 months Friday.
According to the complaint filed Monday, one of the aides said the group gathered at work or school to "talk and laugh about the incidents."
A Florida congresswoman hung up on president-elect Obama Wednesday, thinking it was a prank.
The family of a college student who killed himself live on the Internet say they're infuriated that viewers of the live webcam or operators of the Web site that hosted it��didn't act sooner to save him.
Powerful signals from a secret U.S.-Australian navy communications base could have caused a Qantas Airbus jet to suddenly dive last month, injuring scores of passengers, Australia's air safety agency said on Friday.
A group of women gathered around coffee and date cakes to celebrate the afternoon 18 years ago when they got into cars and drove through Riyadh, a defiance of Saudi Arabia's ban on female driving.
A Russian diplomat says major world powers remain divided over new sanctions against Iran after a meeting on the nation's nuclear program.
A Moroccan youth was given a suspended prison sentence for writing that he preferred a soccer club to his king - and now he fears the ruling could jeopardize his future.
A set of dinosaur footprints uncovered in eastern France and dating from 150 million years ago has been authenticated by scientists as a unique discovery.
Foreign media in China have been targeted by e-mails laden with malicious computer software in attacks that appear to be tied to the run-up to the National Day military parade on October 1.
Facebook is closing an uncomfortable chapter in its five-year history.
With their advertising revenue drying up, newspaper publishers spent much of the spring and summer debating whether to cut off free online access to some of the material they run in their shrinking print editions.
The Justice Department has concluded that a beefed-up surveillance program that monitors federal employees' Internet traffic does not violate their rights or those of citizens who communicate with them.
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