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BEIRUT (AP) -- Two Western journalists killed in the Syrian city of Homs last week were buried in the embattled neighborhood where they died, according to activist videos posted Thursday, while two other reporters escaped into neighboring Lebanon....

BEIRUT (AP) -- Two Western journalists killed in the Syrian city of Homs last week were buried in the embattled neighborhood where they died, according to activist videos posted Thursday, while two other reporters escaped into neighboring Lebanon....

KOMOTINI, Greece (AP) -- A former plastics factory employee in the northern Greek city of Komotini who took two hostages has surrendered after nearly 12 hours early Friday, police said. He had previously shot and wounded three people....

MICHIGAN

Man in Detroit explosive case still not mentally competent

MARQUETTE | A judge has ruled that a Michigan man who authorities say placed an explosive outside a federal building in Detroit last year is still not mentally competent to face the charges.

The Mining Journal of Marquette reports that ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- President Barack Obama, turning his political sights on snowy New Hampshire, demanded that Congress eliminate oil and gas company subsidies that he called an outrageous government "giveaway." Though politically a long shot, the White House believes the idea resonates at a time of high gasoline prices....

BRUSSELS (AP) -- Europe's leaders have said they are committed to supporting economic growth, in a concession that their focus on austerity as the key to solving the debt crisis is not working as unemployment hits record highs and recession looms over the region....

Human mattress dominos, a lawnmower-on-ice race, and what happens when a weather presenter gets the giggles.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Supporters of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide are planning rallies this month to demonstrate the power of his Lavalas party and protest Haiti's current government, a longtime Aristide ally said Thursday....

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Supporters of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide are planning rallies this month to demonstrate the power of his Lavalas party and protest Haiti's current government, a longtime Aristide ally said Thursday....

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Supporters of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide are planning rallies this month to demonstrate the power of his Lavalas party and protest Haiti's current government, a longtime Aristide ally said Thursday....

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made his first live communication with his country's news media in nearly a week Thursday, saying he was in good shape and recovering quickly from tumor surgery in Cuba....

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made his first live communication with his country's news media in nearly a week Thursday, saying he was in good shape and recovering quickly from tumor surgery in Cuba....

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- Argentine President Cristina Fernandez made a surprise conciliatory gesture Thursday by seeking negotiations with the United Kingdom to establish several weekly flights from Buenos Aires to the Falkland Islands....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- TITLE: "Three of A Kind"...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- TITLE: "Three of A Kind"...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- TITLE: "Three of A Kind"...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- TITLE: "Three of A Kind"...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- TITLE: "Three of A Kind"...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- TITLE: "Three of A Kind"...

MAD ISLAND, Texas — Strange things are aloft in the bird world.

Endangered whooping cranes flew 2,500 miles from Canada to Texas, where they usually spend the whole winter. Instead, they pecked around for a short time and flew back. In Nebraska, other cranes never left.

Some ducks just ...