.MIAMI (AP) - Jose Padilla, an American once accused of plotting with al-Qaida to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb," was sentenced Tuesday to a relatively lenient 17-year prison term on unrelated terror...

>BEIJING (AP) - China's senior safety inspector urged the public and the media Tuesday to expose workplace accidents in a bid to end corruption and official misdeeds aggravating the country's high rate...

>HAVANA (AP) - The new parliament chosen by Cuban voters could ultimately send ailing 81-year-old Fidel Castro into permanent retirement. As results came in Monday, there was no doubt that voters in...

;AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) - Sherpas laid prayer scarves on the coffin of Edmund Hillary Tuesday as thousands across New Zealand bid farewell to the Mount Everest conqueror. About 500 New Zealand and...

>CORONA, Calif. (AP) - Investigators walked through rows of vehicles at a car dealership Monday inspecting wreckage from a deadly collision of two small planes that rained debris and bodies down on...

>BEIJING (AP) - Unusually heavy snowfall in central China has been blamed for at least 15 deaths and has stranded hundreds of thousands of people ahead of the peak Lunar New Year travel season, state...

>TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday called a U.S. intelligence report concluding Iran stopped its nuclear weapons program four years ago a "step forward" in comments that marked...

.AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - Every child born in Maine will be eligible for a $500 college savings nest egg, thanks to the generosity of a shoe company founder who never attended college himself. A foundation...

>BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - Hundreds of thousands of holiday cards and letters thanking wounded American troops for their sacrifice and wishing them well never reach their destination. They are returned...