Sun Jan 29, 2012 3:51 PM EST
A Massachusetts judge has dismissed assault charges against the fiancee of a man accused of fatally beating his 7-year-old son on Father's Day 2009.
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Sun Jan 29, 2012 3:17 PM EST
Lindsey Moore scored 20 points to help No. 19 Nebraska beat Illinois 67-47 on Sunday.
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Sun Jan 29, 2012 2:50 PM EST
Packed to capacity in the lower level on one side of Gillette Stadium on Sunday, Patriots fans watched replays from the AFC championship victory that put New England in the Super Bowl.
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Sun Jan 29, 2012 1:12 PM EST
Iran's state media say the Supreme Court has upheld a death sentence against a web developer convicted of spreading corruption.
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Sun Jan 29, 2012 1:06 PM EST
Miranda Lambert has rescheduled her Friday concert in Tallahassee, Fla., to attend the funeral of a close friend.
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Sun Jan 29, 2012 1:02 PM EST
Former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards has been hospitalized with pneumonia.
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Sun Jan 29, 2012 12:02 PM EST
Libyan judicial police have started taking control of makeshift prisons in the country after human rights organizations complained of rampant torture of inmates, the country's deputy justice minister said on Sunday.
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Sun Jan 29, 2012 11:52 AM EST
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says African nations should stop treating gays as "second-class citizens, or even criminals".
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Sun Jan 29, 2012 10:59 AM EST
Police found five people dead inside a Birmingham home when they arrived early Sunday morning to investigate a possible robbery, authorities said.
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Sun Jan 29, 2012 10:06 AM EST
A professor from American University in Cairo says discovery of prostate cancer in a 2,200-year-old mummy indicates the disease was caused by genetics, not environment.
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Sun Jan 29, 2012 9:52 AM EST
A long line of cars and trucks collided one after another early Sunday on a dark Florida highway so shrouded in haze and smoke that drivers were virtually blinded. At least 10 people were killed.
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Sun Jan 29, 2012 9:46 AM EST
Newt Gingrich is calling GOP president rival Mitt Romney a "pro-abortion, pro-gun control, pro-tax increase liberal."
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Sun Jan 29, 2012 9:43 AM EST
Novak Djokovic ripped off his shirt and let out a primal scream, flexing his torso the way a prize fighter would after a desperate, last-round knockout.
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Sun Jan 29, 2012 9:24 AM EST
Margaret Thatcher chose Beethoven, Michael Caine picked Frank Sinatra and boxer George Foreman selected The Beatles' "All You Need is Love."
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Sun Jan 29, 2012 9:24 AM EST
Israel's defense ministry says it will soon begin clearing thousands of mines in southern Israel.
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Sun Jan 29, 2012 9:04 AM EST
The Israeli military says a drone that can fly as far as Iran has crashed in central Israel on a routine experimental flight.
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Sun Jan 29, 2012 8:59 AM EST
Kenyan police say they have arrested an imam after they found a cache of weapons in his house.
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Sun Jan 29, 2012 6:52 AM EST
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, a past president of Italy who held the post during the sweeping corruption scandal of the early 1990s that reshaped the country's post-war political landscape, died Sunday in Rome. He was 93.
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Sun Jan 29, 2012 6:51 AM EST
Egypt's Foreign Ministry said Sunday it has ended a contract with three Washington lobbying firms to cut expenses, denying reports that the Americans were the ones to sever the contract.
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Sun Jan 29, 2012 6:07 AM EST
Thousands of cars flying white ribbons or balloons circled central Moscow on Sunday in a show of protest against Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
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Sun Jan 29, 2012 6:03 AM EST
Police fired guns and used batons on crowds of stone-throwing opposition activists in several Bangladesh towns Sunday, killing at least three people and injuring more than 100, a news report and doctors at two hospitals said.
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Sun Jan 29, 2012 4:45 AM EST
An official Chinese newspaper says Beijing must punish the Philippines economically for proposing closer military ties with Washington.
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Sun Jan 29, 2012 4:18 AM EST
Militants apparently captured 29 Chinese workers after attacking a remote worksite in a volatile region of Sudan, and Sudanese forces were increasing security for Chinese projects and personnel there, China said Sunday.
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Sun Jan 29, 2012 3:18 AM EST
Thousands of people clad in bathing trunks, bikinis and even some woolly winter hats have taken the Polar Bear Plunge into the Chesapeake Bay for charity.
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Sun Jan 29, 2012 2:53 AM EST
Japan's Risa Shigetomo boosted her chances of going to the London Olympics by winning the Osaka International Women's Marathon on Sunday.
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