Nelson Mandela, South Africa's Nobel Prize-winning symbol of hope for leading the fight against apartheid, is reported still on U.S. terrorist watch lists.

A U.S. air strike in Somalia Thursday killed an al-Qaida leader in East Africa who also was a leader in the Islamist revival in Somalia, Somali officials said.

A religious decree condemning Iraqi suicide bombings is being developed jointly by Shiite and Sunni leaders, an Anglican minister involved in the project said.

U.S. military leaders say 17 people were killed in Baghdad's Sadr City area, where battles between coalition and militant forces have raged for weeks.

KETCHIKAN, Alaska - It's easy for tourists to find the city's historic Federal Building - it's the only big, pink building in the middle of town.

More men stay home with their families or take parental leave. It's also the case that male caregivers can provide the everyday presence of male role models in fragmented families where that's absent.

LITHOPOLIS, Ohio - As two intruders began ransacking her house, a teenager home alone climbed into bed, hid under the covers and text messaged her mother, who called 911.

SIERRA VISTA- Rats are blamed for shutting down Internet service Wednesday for Qwest customers through Cochise County.

In her 15 years, Jingle Luis has never walked on the bottoms of her feet.

Michigan State Police officers were to give the boy a reward, but he asked instead to spend the money on a pizza party for his Scout troop.

The 23-year-old Manchester woman was arrested on marijuana charges.

Two men have been charged with second-degree burglary.

The 75-year-old Rose Griffin told him: ''You're talking to the dead person.''

China has built a major secret underground nuclear submarine base, intelligence shows.

A U.S. military judge has rejected a Guantanamo detainee's defense that he was too young at the time he was captured to be tried for war crimes.

North Korea tentatively has agreed to give the United States thousands of records from its Yongbyon nuclear reactor from 1990, officials said.

Two fliers were killed Thursday when their training plane crashed at Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas.

U.S. State Department officials have not asked the Belarus missions in Washington and New York to close, a State Department spokesman said Thursday.