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Former president raps along to MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This", courtesy of The Tonight Show's editing team, in a clip to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Bush's time in office

She was known as Katie, a pretty, popular girl from a well-respected Rhode Island family. In high school, she excelled at music and art and worshipped David Bowie. As a...

Hungarians head to the polls with Prime Minister Viktor Orban's Fidesz party ahead in opinion polls.

Say anything nice about charter schools, and you are sure to get letters full of rage, false charges and praise for unions. The attacks, often from teachers, follow a format...

TOKYO (AP) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel delivered a two-pronged warning to Asia Pacific nations Sunday, announcing that the U.S. will send two additional ballistic missile destroyers to Japan to counter the Nort...

Anti-riot police move into Zaatari refugee camp following protests over ill treatment and injury to four-year-old.

A multistage operation is under way in the Pacific Ocean to bring a 1-year-old-girl who became seriously ill on a sailboat hundreds of miles off Mexico to shore for treatment, officials said Saturday.

Hundreds of people attend a Mass in the Rwandan capital ahead of a week of official mourning to mark the 20th anniversary of the country's genocide.

Forget Mickey Mouse. Florida lawmakers are hoping tourists will come to Florida for the doctors.

US defence secretary warns China against unilateral action over disputes with Japan, a day before his visit to Beijing.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Millions of Afghans defied Taliban threats and rain Saturday, underscoring their enormous expectations from an election that comes as the country's wobbly government prepares to face down a fer...

Story of the scientist who isolated the Epstein Barr virus

Argentina's leader, Cristina Fernandez de Kirshner, has become godmother to the child of a lesbian couple who was baptised in a Catholic church.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the "Pick 4 Day" game were:     

LAKEWOOD, Colo. (AP) -- The encounter at Jack Phillips' Masterpiece Cakeshop lasted less than a minute. Phillips stepped out from behind the counter in his small, pastry-crammed shop to meet customers Charlie Craig and D...

The Pitch Perfect star left her cups at home to rap about international sex tourism during her first stint as Saturday Night Live host

A Cuban man, who with his wife were slain in 1995, was preparing to testify about Cuba’s bioweapons capabilities to Congress, el Nuevo Herald has learned.

Hundreds of Tetris fans had a little fun Saturday with a big version of the classic video game.

(CARLISLE, Mass.) -- The year since Jeff Bauman was pushed in a wheelchair from the Boston Marathon, his legs ravaged and his face ashen, has been marked by pain and difficulty but also by triumphs: He’s learned to wal...

NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) -- Police in the Bahamas say the badly burnt bodies of four people have been found on a remote southern cay of the sprawling archipelago.     

The paintings by former President George W. Bush mostly confirm the version of Mr. Bush we are familiar with: a man who is seemingly open and charming but also closed and opaque.     

Police are investigating a possible link between a body found floating in an Indiana lake and a missing Michigan doctor who disappeared last December.