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DETROIT (AP) -- Unions angry that Detroit is trying to mend its financially-battered books by laying off hundreds of workers and imposing steep contract concessions on those who remain are considering an illegal strike....

For the middle class, going to college has become more about jobs and less about self-enrichment, says Stephen Trachtenberg

BEIRUT (AP) -- The U.N.'s observer mission in Syria was caught up in a burst of violence Tuesday captured on video, with a roadside bomb damaging its cars just minutes after witnesses said regime forces gunned down mourners at a funeral procession nearby....

One million of the fifteen million premature babies born each year die, suggests a report led by the WHO.

The daughter of a Coleraine pensioner who died after confronting a burglar tells of her family's devastation at the killing.

First Minister Alex Salmond has refused to say whether he was the victim of phone hacking as he faced more questions in Holyrood on links with Rupert Murdoch.

ATLANTA (AP) -- While a black preacher told about 100 immigration protesters that incarcerated blacks and detained immigrants faced similar challenges, Jesse Morgan stood to one side of the May Day demonstrators, holding a large sign that read "Radical Queers Resist."...

A teenager with a history of violence admits murdering a 13-year-old boy in Kilmarnock.

NEW YORK (AP) -- An independent group backing Republican Mitt Romney is spending nearly $4 million on ads in nine battleground states....

While the rest of the United Kingdom waded under an April that was wetter, duller and colder than usual, Northern Ireland bucked the trend.

NEWARK, N.J. — A woman whose own skin is deeply bronze-colored from regular visits to a tanning salon has been accused of taking her 5-year-old daughter into a tanning booth in violation of state law, burning the girl's skin.

Through her attorney, Patricia Krentcil, 44, of Nutley, entered a plea ...

ATLANTA (AP) -- An organ donation group says more than 100,000 people used a new Facebook feature the first day to declare they are donors....

CAIRO (AP) -- Suspected supporters of Egypt's military rulers attacked predominantly Islamist anti-government protesters outside the Defense Ministry in Cairo Wednesday, setting off clashes that left 11 dead as political tensions rise three weeks before crucial presidential elections....

CAIRO (AP) -- Suspected supporters of Egypt's military rulers attacked predominantly Islamist anti-government protesters outside the Defense Ministry in Cairo Wednesday, setting off clashes that left 11 dead as political tensions rise three weeks before crucial presidential elections....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government plans to speed up the process for testing E. coli in meat, a move that will help authorities more quickly track the source of the deadly bacteria and hasten recalls....

President Barack Obama's surprise visit to Afghanistan on Tuesday included an extraordinary admission: "Our goal is not to build a country in America's image, or to eradicate every vestige of the Taliban. These objectives would require many more years, many more dollars and many more American lives."

The owner of a Harley Davidson swept away by last year's tsunami in Japan is delighted that the motorbike has been found washed up on the Canadian coast.

Rhyl's seafront is closed to bathers and an emergency clean-up plan begins after sewage spills into the Clwyd Estuary in Denbighshire.

LONDON (AP) -- One of Rupert Murdoch's most trusted lieutenants and five people close to her were charged Tuesday with conspiring to hide evidence of phone hacking, bringing the scandal that has raged across Britain's media and political elite uncomfortably close to Prime Minister David Cameron....

Nearly 600 BAE Brough workers threatened with redundancy protest at the firm's annual general meeting.