Key Democrat breaks with Senate colleagues to support Roland Burris in his bid to assume Obama's U.S. Senate seat
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Chief Prosecutor Hans Mos said his office still needs "at least another few months" to investigate statements made by the only remaining suspect, Joran van der Sloot, during a hidden-camera interview which was broadcast on Dutch television last year.

President-elect's once wrinkle-free appointment process hits distracting snags with Inauguration Day just two weeks away
• FOX FORUM: The Puzzling Panetta Pick
• Obama Apologizes to Feinstein Over Panetta Snub
• Feinstein Breaks With Dems to Back Burris Appointment

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner released no details of the cease-fire plan, saying at the U.N. Security Council that the presidents of his country and Egypt were awaiting a response from Israel.

The Grand Canyon, Mount Everest and Loch Ness will vie with more than 200 other spectacular places in the next phase of the global competition for the New 7 Wonders of Nature, organizers said Wednesday.

On paper John Donald Cody seemed to have it all: a degree from Harvard Law, another from the University of Virginia, a background in military intelligence and his own law firm in Sierra Vista, Ariz.

Fargo police say a woman triggered a shotgun by rolling over on it in bed.

Asteroid impact? Massive volcanoes? How about a passing black hole? There's lots of ways to destroy the Earth.

Under a deal reached with prosecutors, 52-year-old Rodney Dennis has agreed to repay more than $31,000 he stole from parking meters.

Palestinian medical officials say an Israeli airstrike has hit a U.N. school in the northern Gaza Strip, the second deadly Israeli airstrike to hit a U.N. school on Tuesday.

A 7-foot, 2-inch Pakistani woman is seeking asylum in Britain because she says her height makes her a "target" at home.

A Tennessee woman has filed complaints with three government agencies alleging that a local farm discriminated against her for being an American.

Actor John Travolta and wife Kelly Preston have returned to Florida with the remains of their 16-year-old son, Jett, who died at the family vacation home in Grand Bahama.

A French yachtsman has been found alive and well but trapped inside his overturned racing boat after two rivals in a round-the-world race dashed to the vessel 200 miles off Cape Horn.