WASHINGTON - Honduran President Manuel Zelaya plans to travel to Washington on Tuesday, the State Department said, downplaying the ousted leader's attempts to return to power from neighboring...

SAN FRANCISCO - Twitter is wooing businesses with a "Twitter 101" online course in how the hot microblogging service can be used to boost bottom lines. While the company itself grapples with how...

LONDON - British singer Amy Winehouse launched an "unjustifiable" attack on a female fan who politely asked her for a photograph at a charity ball, a court heard on Thursday. The 25-year-old...

SANTIAGO - A middle-aged leukemia patient has became Chile's first patient to receive stem cells from an umbilical cord in a radical procedure that could cure the disease, health officials here said...

NEW YORK - Hundreds of protesters here, including some on hunger strike, began Thursday what they vowed would be a days-long demonstration against alleged political repression in Iran, following last...

WASHINGTON - Senate Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday that lawmakers had given up on voting on a sweeping health care overhaul before September, in a blow to President Barack...

WASHINGTON - NASA on Wednesday ordered spacewalking astronauts back into the International Space Station ahead of schedule after a spacesuit was found to be working improperly. Mission Control in...

CAIRO, Samer al-Atrush - Arab health ministers agreed on Wednesday to ban certain people including the elderly and young children from pilgrimage to Mecca in an effort to contain the spread of swine...

RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil's three-time world player of the year Ronaldo has agreed in principle to star in a film about a Palestinian child fan of his who dies in a refugee camp, it was reported on...