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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Independent Republican groups are heavily outspending their cross-party counterparts on television advertising in the campaigns for the White House and control of the Senate, eating into President Barack Obama's financial advantage over Mitt Romney and prompting expressions of alarm from top congressional Democrats....

An American pilot whose spy plane was shot down will be awarded the Silver Star posthumously next week, 50 years after he left imprisonment in the Soviet Union.

BBC | Bus drivers in London demand more pay for the extra work they'll be doing during the busy Olympic games.

Ministers are planning to grant legal rights for the first time to people in England who spend hours caring for elderly or disabled relatives.

Washington Post | Quietly, the Federal government is now selling off national forest land to insider oil and gas bidders.

The United States offers millions for information leading to the capture of the world's most wanted terrorists.

Maria Sharapova beats Sara Errani in the French Open final to become only the 10th woman to complete a career Grand Slam.

Washington Post | The FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force was at the scene, but there was no indication late Friday of a terrorist link.

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- For years, companies have been chipping away at workers' pensions. Now, two California cities may help pave the way for governments to follow suit....

Prince Philip was released from a British hospital Saturday after treatment for a bladder infection that forced him to miss part of Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee celebration.

Authorities in Beijing announce that they will open two new sections of the Great Wall of China to ease overcrowding, Xinhua state news agency reports.

BEIJING (AP) -- China will launch three astronauts this month to dock with an orbiting experimental module, and the crew might include its first female space traveler, a government news agency said Saturday....

BEIJING (AP) -- China will launch three astronauts this month to dock with an orbiting experimental module, and the crew might include its first female space traveler, a government news agency said Saturday....

BEIJING (AP) -- A Chinese spacecraft carrying three astronauts docked with an orbiting module Monday, another first for the country as it strives to match American and Russian exploits in space....

BEIJING (AP) -- China will launch three astronauts this month to dock with an orbiting experimental module, and the crew might include its first female space traveler, a government news agency said Saturday....

BEIJING (AP) -- China will launch three astronauts this month to dock with an orbiting experimental module, and the crew might include its first female space traveler, a government news agency said Saturday....

BEIJING (AP) -- China will launch three astronauts this month to dock with an orbiting experimental module, and the crew might include its first female space traveler, a government news agency said Saturday....

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) -- Ivorian government forces will launch a military operation to hunt down the men responsible for an ambush that killed at least seven peacekeepers in an unprecedented attack on U.N. forces in the country. Officials said Saturday that at least eight civilians also were killed in the area....

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) -- Ivorian government forces will launch a military operation to hunt down the men responsible for an ambush that killed at least seven peacekeepers in an unprecedented attack on U.N. forces in the country. Officials said Saturday that at least eight civilians also were killed in the area....

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Security forces in western Myanmar have restored order after rioters burned hundreds of homes in sectarian violence that killed at least seven people, state-controlled media reported Saturday....