NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- Insisting his nation has a right to defend itself, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee told the world's five original nuclear powers Tuesday to get rid of their own atomic arsenals...

In the past two years, juvenile crime steadily declined. But recent school shootings have given legislators and psychologists new reasons to explore what drives children to kill. Since October, 14 teachers...

With promises of quick access and even faster computers, College of Liberal Arts officials gathered Tuesday to celebrate the grand opening of a new computer lab. Liberal arts officials built the lab to...

Pitcher Brad Pautz was expected to be the first Gophers baseball player to go in this year's amateur draft, but his name was crossed off the list of available high school and college ball players sooner...

The Minnesota Student Association Forum met Tuesday for the last meeting of the school year. Association president Nikki Kubista told members they should treat the student government as a nonprofit organization....

Nursing mothers on the St. Paul campus no longer must retreat into toilet stalls or travel to Boynton Health Service to extract breast milk during the work day. Boynton, with grants from the Minnesota...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Space shuttle Discovery thundered into orbit Tuesday on NASA's last voyage to Mir, a flight to bring home the seventh and final American to stay aboard the Russian space station. The...

GENEVA (AP) -- An exuberant group of children rescued from mines, sweatshops and servitude descended on Geneva today and inspired calls for the International Labor Organization to restrict child labor...

EAGAN, Minn. (AP) -- Northwest Airlines criticized its pilots union in newspaper ads Tuesday for rejecting a pay proposal, while the union accused the company of negotiating through the news media. The...

Before this weekend, there were four candidates for the top Gophers sports performance of the spring season. Now, there is one. With all due respect to the accomplishments of the men's track and field,...