A 12-year-old boy was fatally shot by police in Cleveland after brandishing what turned out to be a replica gun, triggering an investigation into his death and a legislator's call for such...

Pigs root through garbage piling up in a working class neighborhood. City buses improvise routes on streets clogged with triple-parked cars. On rainy days, muck-choked sewers make crossing the road a...

A naked man fell through the ceiling of a women's bathroom at Logan Airport, then ran out of the restroom and viciously assaulted an elderly man while he was still in the buff and bleeding, before...

A 30-year-old Sydney mother has been charged with the attempted murder of her newborn son who was allegedly abandoned in a roadside drain for five days before passers-by heard his cries, police said...

FERGUSON FERGUSON, Missouri - Barricades surround the building where a grand jury has been considering whether to indict the Ferguson police officer who shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown,...

A strong earthquake that hit a sparsely populated, mountainous area of western China killed at least four people and injured 54 others, including schoolchildren in a stampede, officials said...

Tunisians have lined up at polling stations to vote in their North African country's first free and open presidential election. Today's vote marks the long awaited completion of a rocky...

A woman featured in a reality TV show about a polygamous family is going public about sex abuse she claims she suffered as a child in hopes of changing a culture of secrecy plaguing plural families in...

Police in Australia were questioning a 20-year-old woman whose newborn baby was found Sunday abandoned in a drain near a Sydney freeway. The baby, who is only a few days old, was in a...

Helicopter surveys on Sunday showed more extensive damage than earlier thought from an overnight earthquake in the mountainous central Japan area that hosted the 1998 Winter...