TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) -- Seeking to break a 16-month deadlock, Israel and the Palestinians held their first high-level talks in months on Sunday, hours after police foiled what they said was an attempted...

AITAPE, Papua New Guinea (AP) -- The wave higher than the coconut trees it crashed into swept away three villages on Papua New Guinea's northwest coast, turning flimsily built homes into matchsticks. The...

Gophers forward Quincy Lewis and Connecticut guard Khalid El-Amin of Minneapolis were among the 12 players named Thursday to the USA Basketball Goodwill Games team. Lewis is one of four Big Ten players...

I've been having visions of utopia: clean cities, babies laughing in their mother's arms, puppies chasing puffballs in a field. A world without pollution. A world without war over oil. And the answer that...

With four million Americans suffering from terminal heart failure, the outcome of a new national study may be the miracle they're hoping for. The study will test the effectiveness of a new mechanical...

An accountant representing University medical students flooded local media with press releases Monday, claiming reports about student tax refunds stemming from an appellate court's July 6 ruling were...

Supporters of a campaign to preserve justice for immigrant families came away from a public forum Thursday with less than they had hoped or expected. A recent increase in Minneapolis and St. Paul police...

Alan Michael Scott's trial for alleged criminal sexual behavior is pegged for late October in Hennepin County District Court. Scott, a second-year University medical student, was charged in April with...

It wasn't the good pay or convenient parking that ultimately led Alexs D. Pate, author of "Amistad," to take a teaching position at the University this fall. "I'm just looking for a place I feel comfortable,"...

RIGHT ON, DUDE! Net: We are pleased to announce that Wrong Place at the Wrong Time Dude and his studious compadres have reached rapprochement. Apparently, even number types are feeling the solidarity...