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Greece's new prime minister meets party leaders
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece's newly installed caretaker prime minister is holding talks with party leaders ahead of Wednesday's European Union summit as campaigning gets underway for next month's elections....
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Trial starting for Fort Hood bomb plot suspect
WACO, Texas (AP) -- Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday in the trial of a soldier accused of planning to bomb a Texas restaurant filled with Fort Hood troops last summer....
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Romney faced leadership test in Big Dig tragedy
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney was at his New Hampshire vacation home on a summer night in 2006 when 26 tons of concrete ceiling panels in one of Boston's Big Dig highway tunnels collapsed, crushing a car and killing a female passenger....
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Golden Gate celebrates 75th with help of engineers
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The Golden Gate Bridge was heralded as an engineering marvel when it opened in 1937....
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Chinese company to buy US movie theater chain AMC
BEIJING (AP) -- A Chinese conglomerate announced Monday it will buy a major U.S. cinema chain, AMC Entertainment Holdings, for $2.6 billion in China's biggest corporate takeover in the United States to date....
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Free bicycles help keep Indian girls in school
RAMPUR SINGHARA, India (AP) -- The daily trip to high school was expensive, long and eventually, too much for Indian teenager Nahid Farzana, who decided she was going to drop out. Then, the state government gave her a bicycle....
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3 climbers die on Mount Everest, 2 still missing
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) -- A Nepalese mountaineering official says three climbers returning from the summit of Mount Everest have died and two more are missing....
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In Joplin, a senior year to remember after tornado
JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) -- It was a label they sought both to embrace and avoid, a refrain overheard in whispers or uttered bluntly at soccer games, summer camps and national academic competitions: Here come the tornado kids from Joplin....
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CDC: Half of overweight teens have heart risk
ATLANTA (AP) -- Half the nation's overweight teens have unhealthy blood pressure, cholesterol or blood sugar levels that put them at risk for future heart attacks and other cardiac problems, new federal research says....
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Study: 2,000 convicted then exonerated in 23 years
WASHINGTON (AP) -- More than 2,000 people who were falsely convicted of serious crimes have been exonerated in the United States in the past 23 years, according to a new archive compiled at two universities....
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MS prison guard dies, others hurt in 'disturbance'
NATCHEZ, Miss. (AP) -- A prison guard has died and several other employees have been injured during what is being called an "an inmate disturbance" at a southwest Mississippi prison....
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AP Photos: Millions view 'ring of fire' eclipse
Millions of early risers in Asia turned their attention skyward to view a rare "ring of fire" eclipse as it crossed their skies Monday morning....
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AP Photos: Millions view 'ring of fire' eclipse
Millions of early risers in Asia turned their attention skyward to view a rare "ring of fire" eclipse as it crossed their skies Monday morning....
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NATO officials: No plan to intervene in Syria
CHICAGO (AP) -- United States and NATO officials say the North Atlantic alliance has no intention of intervening militarily to quell violence in Syria....
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3 charged in carjacking of pastor Marvin Winans
DETROIT (AP) -- Three young men were arraigned Sunday in the assault and carjacking of popular Detroit pastor and gospel singing icon Marvin Winans....
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Millions look skyward as rare eclipse crosses Asia
TOKYO (AP) -- Millions of Asians watched as a rare "ring of fire" eclipse crossed their skies early Monday....
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Robin Gibb of Bee Gees dies at 62
LONDON (AP) -- Robin Gibb, one of the three Bee Gees whose falsetto harmonies powered such hits as "Stayin' Alive" and "Night Fever" and defined the flashy disco era died Sunday, his representative said. He was 62....
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Millions look skyward as rare eclipse crosses Asia
TOKYO (AP) -- Millions of Asians watched as a rare "ring of fire" eclipse crossed their skies early Monday....
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Robin Gibb of Bee Gees dies at 62
LONDON (AP) -- Robin Gibb, a founding member of the Bee Gees who helped propel the group to international stardom, has died. He was 62....
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LA's Old Chinatown ponders a future with Wal-Mart
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- On the surface, a big Wal-Mart store might seem out of place in the midst of the old-fashioned curio shops, the little dim sum eateries and the colorful lanterns and pagodas that make up one of the oldest Chinatowns in the United States....
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Europe faces difficult search for growth
WASHINGTON (AP) -- On paper at least, European leaders agree: They need stronger growth measures to help their economies expand out of their 2 1/2-year-old government debt crisis. Figuring out exactly what those new steps might be will be the hard part....
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Nationalist wins Serb presidential runoff
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) -- Nationalist candidate Tomislav Nikolic won the Serbian presidency on Sunday, a result that adds to the political turmoil in the Balkan country and could slow down its attempts to join the European Union....
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Lockerbie families still seek answers from Libya
NEW YORK (AP) -- For relatives of the people who died in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, the death Sunday of the only man who was convicted stirred up questions once again about his guilt and whether others went unpunished....
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Pa. health care company seeks gas drilling facts
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Some people are absolutely sure gas drilling threatens public health, while others are absolutely sure it doesn't....
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Michelle Obama, NATO spouses visit youth center
CHICAGO (AP) -- First lady Michelle Obama and the spouses of NATO heads of state dropped by a Chicago youth center where they watched a hip-hop aerobics class for children....
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