WINNENDEN,Francois Becker - A teenager who went on a rampage in his old school announced his intentions on the Internet just hours earlier, an official said Thursday, as Germany mourned the 15 people...

LONDON, (AFP) - Britain's first Muslim peer, who was jailed last month for sending text messages just before a fatal road accident, was freed Thursday by the Court of Appeal. Lord Nazir Ahmed,...

NEW YORK, Sebastian Smith- In a city famous for money and theatre, Wall Steet brahmin Bernard Madoff was a master of both, using his charm to attract deep-pocketed clients who were unsuspecting of...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - NASA engineers successfully rebooted the Mars Odyssey orbiter Thursday in an operation to clear its systems of memory flaws and restore a faulty backup system, the space agency...

NEW YORK, March 12, 2009 (AFP) - Bernard Madoff always loved fancy jewelry -- and now he has a silvery pair of handcuffs for his collection. The cuffing of Madoff in the Manhattan court room...

WASHINGTON,(AFP) - Internet search giant Google on Thursday expanded its push into the telephone market, offering a service that provides a single number for home, work and cell phones and turns...

LOS ANGELES, March 6, 2009 (AFP) - R&B singer Chris Brown was charged with assaulting his pop-star girlfriend Rihanna here Thursday as gruesome details about the alleged attack emerged for the first...

MEXICO CITY, March 6, 2009 (AFP) - Paleontologists on Thursday unveiled the oldest fossil remains of a sea turtle that lived 72 million years ago in northern Mexico, the National Institute of...

WASHINGTON, March 5, 2009 (AFP) - Former US first lady Barbara Bush was recovering and joking Thursday in a Texas hospital after undergoing open heart surgery, with president George H.W. Bush choking...