A massive fire that started at a bar Wednesday morning spread through 14 buildings, shut a section of downtown and led to apartment evacuations before it was contained.
Fire raced through a two-story home in Union early Wednesday, blowing out windows and raining debris on neighboring houses while trapping and ultimately killing four members of a family.
Researchers have discovered what they believe is a new deep water coral and sponge beds found several thousands of feet below the ocean surface, officials said Monday.
The United Nations has been one of New York's most recognizable landmarks for more than half a century, a sleek, modern slab standing tall above its more modest-sized neighbors along the East River.
Patients today are less likely to bump into drug sales representatives at a doctor's office as pharmaceutical companies adopt cheaper technologies and more discreet ways to pitch drugs.
New Prime Minister Kevin Rudd signed the paperwork Monday to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, making good on an election promise that will leave the U.S. isolated among wealthy countries in shunning the international global warming pact.
Prime Minister-elect Kevin Rudd named his Cabinet on Thursday, choosing a woman as deputy leader for the first time, a former rock singer as environment minister and a lawyer from the Outback as foreign minister.
Gen. Ashfaq Kayani, Pakistan's new military commander, is a popular soldier who is likely to reduce the army's political role, repair frayed ties with politicians and try to turn the tables on an escalating insurgency by pro-Taliban militants.
Newly elected Australian leader Kevin Rudd renewed a commitment Monday to apologize to indigenous Aborigines for past indignities.
A team of FBI agents that re-examined the Oklahoma City bombing after a resurgence in conspiracy theories uncovered no new reliable leads, the man who initially supervised the bureau's investigation told a newspaper.
A former City Council member who prosecutors said reneged on a plea bargain to cooperate in a corruption probe was sentenced Wednesday to a little over three years in federal prison for taking a $15,000 bribe.
A new version of the Firefox browser, now available for testing mainly by developers, offers improvements on finding frequently visited Web sites and tools for running Web applications without a live Internet connection.
A federal judge ruled Monday that the FBI was liable in the 1982 deaths of two men allegedly killed by fugitive mobster James "Whitey" Bulger and his associates, and said he would schedule a trial early next year to determine what damages should be awarded.
A masked, hooded gunman shot and killed a 13-year-old boy riding a bike on a sidewalk and wounded another early Monday in an attack caught on a security camera, authorities said.
The Tennessee Valley Authority filed an application Tuesday for a license to build and operate two new nuclear power reactors at a site in northern Alabama where it mothballed two reactor projects nearly two decades ago after investing billions of dollars.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. zipped up the white racing suit, this one with a shoe company's name plastered across his chest instead of a popular beer, and climbed into a car that made him look even more out of place.
Lawyers and human right groups are backing an American lawyer to be chief prosecutor at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal, fearing that naming a newcomer could disrupt the court's final years.
John Edwards on Monday cast Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton and her ties to lobbyists as part of a corrupt Washington system that voters should reject in the presidential election.
Poland's new prime minister-designate, Donald Tusk, reached out to a centrist, EU-friendly party Wednesday as he opened talks on forging a government coalition three days after victory in parliamentary elections.
Five new prime-time TV series premiere the week of Monday, Oct. 1 (all times Eastern):
Scientists exploring a deep ocean basin in search of species isolated for millions of years found marine life believed to be previously undiscovered, including a tentacled orange worm and an unusual black jellyfish.
Homebuilders are getting gloomier about the slumping housing market, as a 22-year-old index that tracks their sentiment set a new record low Tuesday.
Motorola Inc., badly in need of hit products to spark a turnaround, announced nine new cell phone handsets Thursday to be available this quarter.
The mayor of Albuquerque will run for the seat being vacated by retiring Republican U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici, The Associated Press has learned.
Geologic time has a different meaning when it comes to Canyon Lake Gorge. You could say it dates to around the end of the Enron era.