Nation and World
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More opting for double mastectomies
Oct 22, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- More women who have cancer in only one breast are getting both breasts removed, says research that found the trend more than doubled in just six years. It'...
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Cheney says nations aligned against Iran
Oct 21, 2007 11:00 pm - LEESBURG, Va. -- The United States and other nations will not allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon, Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday. "Our country, and the entire...
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Wildfires rage across S. California, Malibu
Oct 21, 2007 11:00 pm - MALIBU, Calif. -- On a normal day, the rich and famous pull into the Malibu Colony Plaza under blue skies to buy their groceries. But on Sunday, the shiny BMWs and Cadil...
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Van carrying Amish crashes on Indiana interstate, killing 5
Oct 21, 2007 11:00 pm - INDIANAPOLIS -- A tire blowout may have caused a van carrying passengers from an Amish community to flip over on a highway, killing three children and two adults, police...
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Change-minded Polish voters oust ruling party
Oct 21, 2007 11:00 pm - WARSAW, Poland -- A pro-business opposition party that wants Poland's troops out of Iraq ousted Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski's government in parliamentary elections...
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Nationalist party wins big in Swiss elections
Oct 21, 2007 11:00 pm - GENEVA -- A nationalist party rode an anti-immigrant wave Sunday to the best showing of any party in parliamentary elections since World War I, while the Greens made gai...
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Monkey attack leads to death of Indian official
Oct 21, 2007 11:00 pm - NEW DELHI -- Wild monkeys attacked a senior government official who then fell from a balcony at his home and died Sunday, media reported. New Delhi Deputy Mayor S.S. Baj...
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Kurds' incursion raises likelihood Turkey will invade Iraq
Oct 21, 2007 11:00 pm - SIRNAK, Turkey -- Kurdish rebels ambushed a Turkish military convoy on Sunday less than three miles from the Iraqi border, killing 12 soldiers in the face of growing thr...
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After decades-long fight, Iowa airport embraces unflattering identifier SUX
Oct 21, 2007 11:00 pm - SIOUX CITY, Iowa -- City leaders have scrapped plans to do away with the Sioux Gateway Airport's unflattering three-letter identifier -- SUX -- and instead have made it ...
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Cuba starts election cycle without Castro in charge
Oct 21, 2007 11:00 pm - HAVANA -- Cubans opened an election cycle Sunday that will lead to a decision next year on whether ailing leader Fidel Castro will remain atop the communist-run island's...