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Kofi Annan will brief the U.N. Security Council on the deteriorating situation in Syria in a closed teleconference Friday, as the deadly conflict moves into its second year.

North Korea plans to launch a satellite using a carrier rocket in April, the country's official news agency said Friday, a move that would violate U.N. Security Council demands.

The suspect in last weekend's shooting deaths of 16 Afghan civilians is Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, a military source and a senior defense official said.

Mississippi's GOP-dominated House of Representatives has passed an immigration bill that calls for status checks of people arrested by police.

Frida Ghitis says that private e-mails of the Syrian leader reveals that he is not a reformer but rather a master at manipulating the West.

Rick Santorum's contention that in order for Puerto Rico to become a state English must be its principal language drew criticism Thursday from the U.S. territory's sole representative in Congress.

The latest version of Apple's iPad, the genre-defining tablet computer that has outperformed virtually everyone's expectations since first released in 2010, goes on sale Friday starting at 8 a.m. local time.

Several homes were destroyed and others damaged Thursday when a tornado touched down near Dexter, Michigan, officials said.

A cache of e-mails leaked to CNN reveals a ruling family often occupied with YouTube videos and shopping during the regime's move to crush a civilian uprising.

CNN tapped the pool of passionate pundits and politics-watchers on iReport for their take on why Mitt Romney just can't seem to get conservatives to come to the altar and say "I do."

A jury found Hemy Neuman guilty of murder but mentally ill in the shooting death of his co-worker's husband outside a suburban Atlanta day care center.

The comic Gallagher, known for smashing watermelons, is "slowly recovering" from a heart attack suffered just before he was to perform at a Texas club, his promotional manager said Thursday.

Iran says it wants more clarity from the IAEA before it allows inspectors into the Parchin military complex south of Tehran, one of Iran's most influential officials said Wednesday.

International officials will attempt to gauge humanitarian conditions across Syria this weekend as part of a Syrian-led mission. An activist says the death toll in the conflict is near 10,000.

Syria's conflict erupted in March 2011 when President Bashar al-Assad's Alawite minority-dominated government launched a crackdown against a predominantly Sunni protest movement that grew into an uprising with an armed resistance. One year later, what is the situation and what may happen next?

Two French soldiers were killed and a third was wounded when a man dressed in black with a motorcycle helmet shot them in the southwestern French city of Montauban, police said Thursday.

Controversy is brewing in Arizona as the state Senate considers a bill that would give all businesses the option to exclude contraceptives from health insurance coverage.

Vice President Joe Biden assumed the role of top campaign surrogate for President Barack Obama, harshly criticizing the economic policies of the GOP candidates.

Lawrence Lessig says the roots of the problems at Goldman Sachs are its publicly traded stock and the weakening of financial regulation

Gayle Lemmon: Both sides are calling for a quick pullout from Afghanistan. But how can the international community prevent sacrificing women and human rights activists to the Taliban?