A teenage Dutch sailor who made headlines when she went to court to fight for the right to sail solo around the world has gone missing, police said Sunday.

Islamic militants fired mortars into Mogadishu's police compound as the force was celebrating its 66th anniversary Sunday, sparking a battle that killed at least 12 civilians and a police officer, officials said.

The Philippines' most active volcano could have a huge eruption within days, officials warned Sunday after detecting a drastic surge in earthquakes and eerie rumbling sounds in surrounding foothills. Tens of thousands of villagers have been evacuated as a precaution.

A slow-moving storm that blanketed swaths of the mid-Atlantic with nearly 2 feet of snow reached southern New England on Sunday, continuing its assault on the East Coast after causing at least five deaths, crippling travel and leaving empty stores

Tens of thousands of opposition demonstrators marched through the streets of the central Taiwanese city of Taichung on Sunday, ahead of the arrival of a senior Chinese envoy for trade talks that some on the island fear could eventually lead

The long-awaited subversion trial of a high-profile Chinese dissident who has called for greater civil rights in the country and an end to the Communist Party's political dominance will start in a few days, the man's lawyer said Sunday.

Outnumbered Republicans are pledging to delay passage of historic health care legislation as long as possible after jubilant Democrats locked in Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson as the 60th and decisive vote.

Associated Press - December 19, 2009 9:35 PM ET NACOGDOCHES, Texas (AP) - Authorities say a man suspected of killing his wife in east Texas was arrested trying to enter Mexico Friday.

Associated Press - December 19, 2009 9:15 PM ET EL PASO, Texas (AP) - El Paso police say they are investigating the shooting death of a Fort Bliss soldier at a house party after someone grabbed...

Associated Press - December 19, 2009 9:15 PM ET AUSTIN (AP) - The day after a group sued the state over delays in the processing of food stamp applications, the Health and Human Services...

Associated Press - December 19, 2009 8:55 PM ET RENO, Nev. (AP) - Nevada has lost another 1,000-plus-yard rusher for the Hawaii Bowl game against Southern Methodist.

Associated Press - December 19, 2009 8:55 PM ET EL PASO, Texas (AP) - El Paso police say the remains of a high school art teacher missing since August after apparently going camping have been...

Associated Press - December 19, 2009 8:35 PM ET DALHART, Texas (AP) - Officials are trying to determine why about 2,000 geese and ducks were found dead this week near the Texas Panhandle town...

Associated Press - December 19, 2009 8:15 PM ET LAREDO, Texas (AP) - The Laredo concert featuring rapper Lil Wayne, postponed after border officials found marijuana on 1 of his tour buses, is...

Associated Press - December 19, 2009 5:05 PM ET CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) - Mexican law enforcement officials say four police officers have died in a series of attacks on patrol cars in the...

Associated Press - December 19, 2009 2:45 PM ET AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - In Republican-dominated Texas, where voters opted for John McCain in 2008, the Democratic National Committee is waging 1 of...

Associated Press - December 19, 2009 2:15 PM ET POCONO SUMMIT, Pa. (AP) - Old-fashioned fun is part of the Boy Scouts of America's heritage. So is doing one's duty to God and country.

Photo via FlickrMy Senator, Diane Feinstein of California, has calling on Congress to ban BPA -- short for bisphenol A, the ubiquitous component of plastics that has been linked to infertility and cancer. Feinstein authored the Ban Poisonous Additives (BPA)

Help Those Who Need to Be Saved From Climate Change"When Lumumba Stanislaus Di-Aping, the chairman of the G-77 group of developing countries at Copenhagen, came to the press center at 1 AM last night, he was not there to pontificate