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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The managing director of the International Monetary Fund made an impassioned plea Tuesday for American leadership in the global economy as she called for the international community to give her organization "more firepower" to bolster tottering economies....

At least six tornadoes carve a trail of devastation in the US state of Texas, injuring several people, wrecking homes and grounding flights.

Up to 20,000 small businesses may have bought complex financial products from banks without properly understanding the risks, research by the BBC shows.

A 23-year-old would-be Canadian Miss Universe contestant who was born male says the rule used to ban her from the pageant her should be dropped.

DENVER (AP) -- Calls from confused and worried residents poured into Colorado sheriff's dispatchers for hours last week as a wildfire spread rapidly toward dozens of homes, with one caller expressing disbelief when told that the wind-fueled blaze was a "controlled burn."...

NEW YORK (AP) -- The newly released 1940 U.S. census is such a digital smash that it took a day for the website hosting it to get up to speed after tens of millions of hits almost paralyzed it....

BOSTON (AP) -- A couple of months before Election Day in 2010, the Massachusetts lottery began running a TV commercial in which it pronounced itself "the most successful state lottery in America" and boasted of providing a bounty of money for roads, schools, police and firefighters....

BOSTON (AP) -- A couple of months before Election Day in 2010, the Massachusetts lottery began running a TV commercial in which it pronounced itself "the most successful state lottery in America" and boasted of providing a bounty of money for roads, schools, police and firefighters....

Facebook responds to Yahoo's recent legal action over patents with a lawsuit of its own.

Thousands of protesters in Mauritania hold demonstrations across the capital, Nouakchott, calling for President Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz to resign.

DALLAS (AP) -- Tornadoes tore through the Dallas area Tuesday, peeling roofs off homes, tossing big-rig trucks into the air and leaving flattened tractor trailers strewn along highways and parking lots....

Guatemala arrests suspected drug baron Horst Walther Overdick, who is accused of helping Mexico's Zetas cartel establish a presence in the country.

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- One Goh's life was on the skids even before he became the suspect in the nation's biggest mass school shooting since Virginia Tech....

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- At least nine pit bulls rescued from a dogfighting ring in the Philippines were euthanized Tuesday and dozens more are likely to be because there are no facilities to rehabilitate them and prevent them from reappearing in underground arenas....

Thousands of homes and businesses in England are without electricity after gales and ice brought down power lines.

In what must be the most extraordinary statement of his presidency, Barack Obama on Monday blasted the possibility that the United States Supreme Court might overturn the Affordable Care Act. Obama said the court would take an "unprecedented, extraordinary step" if it overturns the law, because it was passed by "a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress."

LONDON (AP) -- Once his father's heir apparent, James Murdoch stepped down Tuesday as chairman of British Sky Broadcasting, surrendering one of the biggest jobs in the Murdoch media empire in a bid to distance the broadcaster from a deepening phone hacking scandal....

Lionel Messi scores two penalties as Barcelona brush off AC Milan to book their place in the last four of the Champions League.

Seven crew members are rescued from a stricken cargo ship that ran aground off the north Wales coast in rough seas.

The small retailer who was sold a derivatives contract