Feb 7, 2012 7:04 am
The first democratically elected president of the Maldives resigned Tuesday and was replaced by his vice president after the police and army clashed in the streets of the island nation amid protests over the arrest of a top judge.
Feb 7, 2012 7:04 am
An Alamance County man will spend at least four years in prison for cheating an elderly woman out of roughly $150,000, mostly in the form of personal loans that he never repaid.
Feb 7, 2012 7:03 am
The French Foreign Ministry says France is recalling its ambassador to Syria for consultations because of the continued crackdown by President Bashar Assad's regime on the population. Romain Nadal, a ministry spokesman, says the French Embassy in Damascus will remain open.
Feb 7, 2012 7:03 am
Additional U.S. sanctions on Iran are more significant for their timing than their immediate effect on Iran's economy, coming as the United States and its allies are arguing that Israel should hold off on any military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities to allow more time for sanctions to...
Feb 7, 2012 7:03 am
California and New York, the key holdouts in a long-awaited settlement over foreclosure abuses, moved closer Monday to backing a deal that would force the five largest mortgage lenders to reduce loans for about 1 million households. More than 40 U.S. states have agreed to a nationwide...
Feb 7, 2012 7:03 am
After years of courting, mining company Xstrata PLC and commodities dealer Glencore International PLC have agreed to marry in a $90 billion deal that would create the world's fourth largest natural resources group.
Feb 7, 2012 7:02 am
The St. Martin Parish District Attorney's Office plans to seek the death penalty against the daughter and granddaughter of an 83-year-old Breaux Bridge woman found strangled in November at Lake Martin.
Feb 7, 2012 7:00 am
A passenger plane made a safe emergency landing Tuesday after developing technical problems, Belfast International Airport said. The Thomas Cook Airbus A320, bound from Belfast to Tenerife, landed at around 1130 GMT (6:30 a.m. EDT), the airport said.
Feb 7, 2012 6:59 am
Univision and Disney are in talks to create a 24-hour news channel for Latinos in English, two sources close to the negotiations said Monday. Both sources declined to go on the record because they were not authorized to speak.
Feb 7, 2012 6:55 am
Five people have been hurt in an explosion in a science building at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg. School Police Chief Michael Bartley said the explosion happened in a chemistry lab late Monday afternoon.
Feb 7, 2012 6:55 am
Alexis McKenzie's mother had mild dementia, but things sounded OK when she phoned home: Dad was with her, finishing his wife's sentences as they talked about puttering through the day and a drive to the store.
Feb 7, 2012 6:50 am
Steel maker ArcelorMittal was cautiously optimistic about its near-term prospects even after it reported a heavy fourth quarter loss generated by a deteriorating European economy and big tax and restructuring charges.
Feb 7, 2012 6:46 am
Alexandria officials are offering to wipe clean the records of anyone who has a contempt charge or probation violation and completes the offices' Amnesty Program, which runs until March 16.
Feb 7, 2012 6:43 am
Greek party leaders on Tuesday will meet to seek a long-delayed agreement on harsh cutbacks demanded to avoid looming bankruptcy, amid intense pressure from its bailout creditors to reach a deal, a general strike disrupting public services and thousands of protesters taking to the streets of...
Feb 7, 2012 6:43 am
A western North Carolina sheriff who says he suffers from bipolar disorder has been granted permission for medical retirement. Henderson County Commission Chairman Tommy Thompson said Monday that Sheriff Rick Davis' request has been granted by the state retirement system.
Feb 7, 2012 6:42 am
Chinese workers abducted in Sudan during a rebel attack on a work site boarded a Red Cross plane to leave rebel territory Tuesday after apparently being released, a state news agency said.
Feb 7, 2012 6:37 am
On Wednesday, the Army Corps of Engineers will describe its plans to re-bury bones unearthed 26 years ago from cemeteries created for slaves before the Civil War for and used for black Union soldiers during the war.
Feb 7, 2012 6:37 am
A Raleigh police officer has been wounded in a standoff with a man barricaded in an apartment. Police spokesman Jim Sughrue says the suspect was later found dead Monday night from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Feb 7, 2012 6:36 am
Psychologists have told bishops from around the world that priests who rape and molest children often lie when confronted with an accusation and that victims usually tell the truth and need to be believed in order to heal.
Feb 7, 2012 6:31 am
A new state report predicts that Louisiana's coast will see 3 feet of sea-level rise by 2100 and recommends that future designs for such things as levees and roads to take sea-level rise into account.
Feb 7, 2012 6:28 am
Rescue workers on Tuesday pulled a 65-year-old woman out alive after she was trapped for 31 hours in the rubble of a collapsed factory in an eastern Pakistan city, as the death toll from the accident rose to 18.
Feb 7, 2012 6:26 am
Eighteen people have cited for underage drinking at a party at a home in Rock Hill. The Herald of Rock Hill reported ( http://bit.ly/x0ddwk) the people ranging in age from 17 and 20 were cited when police responded to a report of loud music at the home.
Feb 7, 2012 6:26 am
The vice president of the Swiss National Bank says Switzerland's economy is expected to "slow considerably" despite the Swiss franc falling back against the euro.
Feb 7, 2012 6:25 am
A federal judge has set aside nearly seven hours for opening statements in a trial over the deadly rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico that resulted in the nation's worst offshore oil spill.
Feb 7, 2012 6:22 am
Johnny Cash is still cool. Like Elvis or Hank Williams, Cash retains a certain cachet in current popular culture even in death. More proof of his enduring legend is on the way as plans to celebrate what would have been the American icon's 80th birthday unfold later this month and year.
Feb 7, 2012 6:20 am
Former Massachusetts House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi has been transferred from a federal prison in Kentucky to one in New York City. DiMasi is being housed at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn as of Tuesday morning, according to the Federal Bureau of Prison's inmate locator.
Feb 7, 2012 6:15 am
State news agency says Chinese workers held in Sudan have boarded plane to leave rebel area.
Feb 7, 2012 6:14 am
Iran's parliament has summoned President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for questioning over a long list of accusations, including allegations that he mismanaged the nation's economy.
Feb 7, 2012 6:12 am
Questions are being raised about finances in Atlantic Beach. The town's finance committee is questioning the money that comes into the Horry County town from the annual Bikefest.
Feb 7, 2012 6:11 am
BP PLC has raised its quarterly dividend by 14 percent after posting double-digit gains in profit and revenue in the last three months of 2011 despite further big payments to compensate for the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Feb 7, 2012 6:09 am
Ministers from Iraq's Sunni-backed bloc ended their boycott of the Cabinet on Tuesday, a move that could restore some stability to the war-ravaged nation that has been mired in a security and political crisis since the U.S. completed its military withdrawal from the country.
Feb 7, 2012 6:08 am
President Barack Obama's campaign is asking top fundraisers to support a Democratic-leaning outside group that is backing the president's re-election bid, reversing Obama's opposition to "super" political action committees, which can spend unlimited amounts of cash to influence elections.
Feb 7, 2012 6:03 am
Prosecutors say police have arrested two men on allegations they were spying on Syrian opposition groups in Germany. The Federal Prosecutors' Office said Tuesday some 70 police officers searched the suspects' apartments and those of six alleged accomplices.
Feb 7, 2012 5:47 am
A presidential historian is expected to plead guilty in a case in which he's accused of stealing documents signed by leading figures throughout Western history.
Feb 7, 2012 5:46 am
A swollen river in Greece bursts its banks, flooding homes and forcing authorities to declare a state of emergency Tuesday, officials said.
Feb 7, 2012 5:41 am
Neighbors in a South Florida neighborhood had to deal with a smelly situation after a sewage truck overturned. Officials say about 100 gallons of waste spilled from an All Star Toilets sewage tanker when it hit a utility pole and rolled over Monday afternoon in Pembroke Pines.
Feb 7, 2012 5:39 am
The Olympic Park Legacy Company has started taking bids for naming rights for major stadiums once the 2012 London Olympics are complete.
Feb 7, 2012 5:36 am
An Afghan official says a shooting in the southern city of Kandahar has left five dead, including two police officers and three private security guards.
Feb 7, 2012 5:34 am
Prince Charles is leading ceremonies to mark the 200th birthday of novelist Charles Dickens. The heir to the British throne will lay a wreath Tuesday on the writer's grave in Westminster Abbey's Poet's Corner, where actor Ralph Fiennes will give a reading.
Feb 7, 2012 5:32 am
China on Tuesday vowed to crack down on unrest in Tibetan areas and accused overseas activist groups and the Dalai Lama of fomenting the recent violence.
Feb 7, 2012 5:31 am
Europe's human rights court has issued a potentially ground-breaking ruling that upholds the media's right to report on celebrities and rejects an invasion-of-privacy complaint by Princess Caroline of Monaco.