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OVER ALASKA (AP) -- Flying at 34,000 feet over the Bering Strait, the Russian pilots had a singular focus: making sure they smoothly received the hand-off of a "hijacked" jetliner from their U.S.-Canadian counterparts.

A U.S. special envoy is expected to fly to North Korea on Friday to try to secure the release of Kenneth Bae, an American citizen imprisoned there for carrying out "serious crimes" against Kim Jong Un's regime.

The US vows to act in its "best interests" over the alleged use of chemical weapons by Syria, after British MPs reject military action.

US diplomat Robert King had been scheduled to visit Pyongyang to discuss release of American prisoner.

Sombath Somphone was last seen at a police checkpoint in Vientiane eight months ago and now European lawmakers have accused the communist-run state of telling them "ridiculous lies" regarding his disappearance

From the moment that Simba gazed longingly into the dreamy eyes of Lil Bub, it was all over. Honestly, who could not fall in love with a published author, talk show host, and Internet celebrity like Bub? Now all we have ...

In D.C., 6-Day-Old Panda Is Growing Up Quickly

PHOENIX (AP) -- A 31-year-old father whose infant son died after being left in a parked car in the Phoenix summertime heat has been arrested because he was smoking marijuana at the time, police said.

An 82-year-old man who fled the UK after being convicted of sexually abusing a girl is arrested in Spain.

Briton Lindsay Sandiford, sentenced to death for drug trafficking in the island of Bali, has her appeal rejected by Indonesia's highest court.

NEW YORK (AP) -- A federal judge on Friday refused to toss out terrorism charges facing an Egyptian Islamic preacher extradited from Great Britain and said she'll decide during a trial next year whether government refere...

A nearly 12,000-pound sculpture called "Ona," by Ursula von Rydingsvard, now stands greeting the public at Barclays Center.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will officiate a same-sex wedding ceremony on Saturday between Kennedy Center President Michael M. Kaiser and economist John Roberts.

PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) -- Paraguay is being welcomed back into a group of South American nations known as UNASUR.

PITTSFIELD, Mass. (AP) -- Three male Somerville High School soccer players attending a sports camp in western Massachusetts have been arrested on charges they sexually assaulted three younger campers.

Paul Craig Cobb's white supremacist safe haven in North Dakota, covered by several outlets, including The New York Times, isn't the first extreme separatist group to form in this country. There have been so many over the...

SALEM, N.H. (AP) -- Police are searching for a woman who they say has shoplifted more than $100,000 of merchandise from malls in New Hampshire and Massachusetts.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) -- A bank robbery suspect trying to elude police searching for him in an apartment building jumped into a garbage chute and survived a 200-foot fall into trash in the basement, police said Friday.

Files seized from a Guardian journalist's partner contain details that could risk intelligence officers' lives, the High Court is told.

PARIS (AP) -- If France and the United States are ever going to move beyond French opposition to the Iraq War, this could be the time.

MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) -- An 18-year-old man was convicted of murder in the shooting of a baby who was riding in a stroller alongside his mom in a town in coastal Georgia despite the defense's attempt to cast guilt upon seve...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The oldest person born in Mexico, who also was California's oldest resident, has died in a hospice in Chula Vista, just 17 days after celebrating her 114th birthday.