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Chilean officials are asking fishermen to help save birds caught in nets after thousands of dead fowl appeared along the coast.

Johannes Mehserle, a former San Francisco Bay Area transit police officer, is appealing his involuntary manslaughter conviction for the killing of 22-year-old Oscar Grant in Oakland.

A Chicago jury found William Balfour, Jennifer Hudson's former brother-in-law, guilty of murdering the entertainer's mother, brother and nephew in 2008.

Retired Los Angeles Police Det. Stephanie Lazarus was sentenced Friday to 27 years to life in prison for murdering her ex-boyfriend's wife in a jealous rage more than two decades ago.

Saying he had no discretion under state law, a judge sentenced a Florida woman to 20 years in prison for firing a warning shot in an effort to scare off her abusive husband.

U.S. authorities are not required to release any internal National Security Agency communications it had with Internet giant Google Inc. after a 2010 cyber attack in China, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.

A 14-year-old boy has been charged with murder in the death of his 9-year-old half-sister, whose body was found attached to a rope hanging from a tree, Alabama authorities said Friday.

As German Gen. Erwin Rommel chased British forces across the North African desert, a stray Royal Air Force fighter crashed in the blistering sands of the Egyptian Sahara on June 28, 1942. The pilot was never heard from again. The damaged Kittyhawk P-40 -- a couple of hundred miles from civilization -- was presumed lost forever.

London has unveiled The Orbit, the sculpture at the heart of the Olympic Park, with the city's mayor claiming the bright red swirling structure -- likened by many to a rollercoaster -- is better than the Eiffel Tower.

Greek politicians have been unable to form a new government in their economically embattled land late Friday, and the president might have to step in to breach the impasse.

Paul Waldman says Romney expressed regret when faced with allegations about youthful bullying, but his distancing response won't do much to show voters he possesses empathy

Former NFL player Don McPherson says it's easy to see players who are done with the punishing game as warriors without a war, it's harder to see them as men without capacity to say, "I hurt and I need help."

Jayantha Dhanapala and Ira Helfand say a limited nuclear exchange between two lesser powers could set off world famine. The Cold War is over; time to get rid of our arsenals

Dean Obeidallah says Sacha Baron Cohen's portrayal of an Arab uses buffoonish negative stereotypes instead of comedy based on real culture

Rebekah Brooks, a former newspaper editor and News Corp. executive, began testifying Friday over her links to politicians at a U.K. government-backed inquiry into phone hacking and press ethics.

Troublesome weather conditions hampered recovery efforts Friday as teams combed a steep mountainside where a Russian jetliner crashed on a demonstration flight in Indonesian this week.

Russia condemned the massive bombings that killed dozens in Syria and accused outside nations of instigating violence to heighten the 14-month uprising that has left thousands dead.

The girls were on their stomachs in the woods. Nearby, Adam Mayes -- the man accused of kidnapping them and killing their mother and sister -- shot himself as police closed in, the FBI says.

A third suspect was arrested in the California death of a deployed Marine's wife, authorties said.

A drug already approved for treatment of AIDS might one day be approved for prevention of the deadly disease in individuals at high risk.