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JERUSALEM (AP) -- New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is visiting Israel in his first official overseas trip....

MOSCOW (AP) -- A passenger plane crashed in Siberia shortly after taking off Monday morning, killing 31 of the 43 people on board, Russian emergency officials said. The 12 survivors were hospitalized in serious condition....

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Aung San Suu Kyi claimed victory Monday in Myanmar's historic by-election, saying she hoped it would mark the beginning of a new era for the long-repressed country....

NEW YORK (AP) -- When the 1940 census records are released Monday, Verla Morris can consider herself a part of living history....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Flying is getting better. Honest....

MIAMI (AP) -- When Burger King set about to fix its ailing empire, the fast food giant started by scrutinizing everything on the menu - even the mayonnaise....

LONDON (AP) -- Unemployment in the 17 countries that use the euro hit its highest level since the currency was introduced back in 1999, official figures showed Monday, adding to fears that the region is back in recession....

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A federal judge sentenced drug kingpin Benjamin Arellano Felix on Monday to 25 years in prison for leading one of the world's most powerful cartels for more than a decade before the ring was crippled by his arrest....

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Benjamin Arellano Felix seemed to get off easy considering he was one of the world's most powerful drug traffickers in the 1990s. He pleaded guilty in January to crimes that would give him no more than 25 years in prison - a lighter punishment than ordered for lower-ranking members of his once-mighty, Tijuana-based cartel....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- NATO says that two service members have been killed in separate attacks in southern Afghanistan, while two others have died of non-battle injuries....

BROOKFIELD, Wis. (AP) -- Well-traveled routes that serve as Wisconsin's vital arteries also provide a window into the competing hopes for Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum....

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Up mountainsides, through deserts and the wildest of rugged terrain, there was little that could break the serenity or solitude of Micah True as he ran. Only, perhaps, the pounding beat of his heart or the rhythm of his feet as they hit the trail, mile after mile after mile....

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Up mountainsides, through deserts and the wildest of rugged terrain, there was little that could break the serenity or solitude of Micah True as he ran. Only, perhaps, the pounding beat of his heart or the rhythm of his feet as they hit the trail, mile after mile after mile....

There was little surprise when Taylor Swift won entertainer of the year at The Academy of Country Awards on Sunday night - except maybe in how little surprise the 22-year-old sensation showed when her name was called....

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Two injured British sailors who were rescued from a yacht hit by a monster wave while participating in an around-the-world race were expected to reach San Francisco Bay on U.S. Coast Guard cutter Monday morning....

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Authorities are investigating the cause of a motor home crash that killed 5 people from a Minnesota family and sent 13 others to hospitals....

SANDAKAN, Malaysia (AP) -- The smell of smoke spread fear on the cruise ship Azamara Quest, whose passengers put on life vests and gathered for roll call thinking of a deadly capsizing of another luxury vessel....

SANDAKAN, Malaysia (AP) -- The smell of smoke spread fear on the cruise ship Azamara Quest, whose passengers put on life vests and gathered for roll call thinking of a deadly capsizing of another luxury vessel....

LUFKIN, Texas (AP) -- A Texas nurse convicted of killing five kidney dialysis patients by injecting them with bleach faces a possible death sentence as jurors begin deliberating her punishment....

BEIJING (AP) -- Dozens of Tibetans have set themselves on fire over the past year to protest Chinese rule, sometimes drinking kerosene to make the flames explode from within, in one of the biggest waves of political self-immolations in recent history....