PORTADOWN, Northern Ireland (AP) -- A powerful car bomb devastated the center of Northern Ireland's most fiercely Protestant town Monday, fueling sectarian hatred at a critical time in peace negotiations. Police...

If the money is available, the Twin Cities might be just a few years away from a new mass transit system that would better connect the suburbs to the cities. And supporters of a light rail transit system...

In grade school, we memorized a mnemonic sentence that helped us remember the order of the planets. My Very Energetic Mother Just Served Us Nine Pies. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus,...

As one of 115 Asian-American students in the Carlson School of Management, Chi Nguyen knows she presents a different image in the traditionally white male business world. But Nguyen is determined to make...

The British Empire suffered another blow to its pride last week. Well, what's left of the empire, anyway. Australia's constitutional convention closed Friday, forwarding a republic to the people for a...

Yu-Shih Chen never throws anything away. Chen, chair of the Chinese program in the College of Liberal Arts, has saved departmental charts and correspondence with University officials that point an accusing...

Only a few inches separated the Gophers women's basketball team from a possible victory Friday night at the Sports Pavilion. With the Gophers trailing Michigan 54-53 and 12.2 seconds on the clock, Minnesota...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Colombia's president pledged Monday to remain in office until his term ends in August, backpedaling on earlier remarks suggesting he might resign to improve relations with the...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- A team of researchers issued a warning Monday that new welfare policies across the country are likely to throw the poor even deeper into poverty. Only 14 states have adopted policies...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. --Minnesota's athletes, sporting maroon and gold fingernails and toenails, showed their emotions throughout this weekend's Big Ten swimming and diving championships. They supported one-another...