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FARGO, N.D. - A flight attendant charged with setting fire to an airplane bathroom while on a flight to Saskatchewan is reportedly on the run. Eder Rojas failed to show for a court appearance in Fa...

WENDOVER, Utah - A 47-year-old record-setting motorcycle racer from Montana has died in a crash on the Bonneville Salt Flats. Investigators weren't sure what caused Cliff Gullett of Bozeman, Mont.,...

CERNOBBIO, Italy - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says he'll keep trying to reach a peace agreement with Israel by year's end. However, Abbas conceded Friday that the deadline set by U.S. Pres...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan's law minister says three Supreme Court judges ousted by ex-president Pervez Musharraf have returned to the bench, but not the deposed chief justice. The move cements...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - An Egyptian cargo ship with 25 crew members aboard has been hijacked by pirates off Somalia's coast. The International Maritime Bureau's piracy reporting centre in Kuala Lu...

POTI, Georgia - The U.S. Embassy says the flagship of the U.S. Navy's Mediterranean fleet is to arrive in the Georgian port of Poti on Friday. The Mount Whitney is the first US naval ship to travel...

MIAMI - The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Ike has weakened to a Category three storm in the Atlantic. Ike's maximum sustained winds have dropped to near 200 kilometres per hour as of 5:0...

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan - Pakistani officials say an explosion has destroyed at least one house near the Afghan border, killing several suspected foreign militants. Two Pakistani intelligence of...

PATNA, India - Authorities warned villagers in flood-ravaged northern India on Friday not to return to their homes because an unpredictable river that burst its banks could overflow again. But thousan...

ST. PAUL, Minn. - John McCain, hoping to win the U.S. presidency that eluded him nearly a decade ago, dug deep into his trademark maverick image as he vowed to put the nation's interests ahead of his ...

Remarks by Republican presidential nominee John McCain to the Republican National Convention on Thursday, as prepared for delivery: Thank you all very much. Tonight, I have a privilege given fe...

SYDNEY, Australia - A Qantas Airways flight between two Australian cities was cancelled Friday after fumes were detected on board, while passengers on another Qantas flight found themselves stranded o...

BANGKOK, Thailand - Thai police warned students Friday to avoid street protests after a gunman shot and wounded two students demonstrating against the embattled prime minister, raising new fears of vi...

SEOUL, South Korea - Top nuclear envoys from South Korea, the U.S. and Japan were to converge in Beijing on Friday to discuss the worsening impasse over North Korea's nuclear programs as Pyongyang too...

SYDNEY, Australia - Australia's first female governor general was sworn in Friday and pledged to respect national values in her role as ceremonial representative of the British monarchy. Quentin Br...

ST. PAUL, Minn. - John McCain pledged Thursday to rise above partisan politics and put the nation's interests above his own in a town-hall style speech to millions of Americans on the final day of the...

NASSAU, Bahamas - Tropical storm Hanna roared along the edge of the Bahamas on Thursday ahead of a possible hurricane hit on the Carolinas, leaving behind at least 137 dead in Haiti. Hurricane Ike,...

DETROIT - Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was bounced from office Thursday in a deal with prosecutors that will send him to jail and put an end to the sex scandal that embarrassed this chronically struggling c...

Doug Watts, a painter from Phoenix, watched in spite of himself. There was Sarah Palin on television, and he found himself mesmerized. "I was flipping channels and stuff and when she finally came o...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - When Hala al-Masaad invited her girlfriends over to celebrate her 18th birthday with cake and juice, the high school student was stepping into an unusual public debate. Is celeb...

UNITED NATIONS - A new UN report is criticizing the United States, Japan and the European Union. The report says rich countries haven't delivered on promises to help the world's poorest countries a...

NASSAU, Bahamas - Tropical storm Hanna roared along the edge of the Bahamas on Thursday ahead of a possible hurricane hit on the Carolinas, leaving behind at least 61 dead in Haiti. Hurricane Ike, ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. - John McCain takes his "town hall" approach to millions of Americans on Thursday, relying on his military experience and no-nonsense demeanour to garner their support on the final day...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A deadly American-led raid on a Pakistani village embarrassed the government and eroded support for the pro-U.S. presidential front-runner Thursday just two days before the elect...

JERUSALEM - For the first time since Golda Meir more than three decades ago, a woman is within reach of becoming the prime minister of Israel, a country dominated by macho military men and a religious...

DETROIT - Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pleaded guilty to felony charges Thursday in a sex scandal, forcing him out of office after months of defiantly holding onto his job leading the 11th-largest U.S. city...

BEIJING - Nearly four months after China's devastating earthquake, a government scientist acknowledged Thursday that a rush to build schools in recent years likely led to construction flaws causing so...

BAGHDAD - The notorious Abu Ghraib prison is getting a facelift. Work is being done to reopen the facility and construct a museum documenting Saddam Hussein's crimes but not the abuses committed th...

SAN ANGELO, Texas - Child by child, Texas authorities are acknowledging that many of the children seized during a raid on a polygamist sect's ranch can safely live with their parents or guardians. ...

LAS VEGAS - Once upon a time O.J. Simpson was a national sports hero, showered with adulation and endorsement contracts. He was the "Juice" - a Hall of Fame football star, actor, TV commentator and pi...