Korea talks raise hopes; history may scuttle them
The two Koreas will hold their highest-level talks in years Wednesday in an effort to restore scrapped joint economic projects and ease animosity ...
Philadelphia collapse survivor describes ordeal
The city's top prosecutor announced a grand jury was being convened to investigate a building collapse that killed six people and injured 13 others, ...
2 Obama cabinet nominees clear Senate committee
A Senate committee has voted unanimously to approve President Barack Obama's nominees to head the Commerce and Transportation departments.
Correction: Nicaragua-Canal story
In a story June 8 about Nicaragua's plans to build a canal, The Associated Press misidentified the university where Jason Bittner is director of the ...
Conn. lawmakers join fight over who was 1st to fly
Connecticut's leading role in aviation has never been disputed, but legislators have passed a bill insisting that a Connecticut aviator flew two years ...
American, US Airways name post-merger leadership
The new American Airlines will have more top executives from smaller but more successful US Airways than from the current American. Five US Airways ...
China marks decade of human spaceflight
China's astronauts have braved the tension of docking with a space station and performed delicate tasks outside their orbiting capsule, but now face ...
Ex-China railways boss admits guilt at graft trial
The man who once ran China's powerful railways ministry wept as he admitted his guilt and sought leniency at his trial on corruption charges, one of ...
Afghan authorities: Battle near Kabul airport over
Afghan authorities say a battle with insurgents near Kabul's international airport has ended and all the attackers have been killed. Ministry of ...
2 Koreas to hold senior-level meeting in Seoul
North and South Korea agreed Monday to hold senior-level talks this week in Seoul, a breakthrough of sorts to ease tensions after Pyongyang's recent ...
Portlanders push for barrier at 'Suicide Bridge'
On a sunny January afternoon, 12 stories above a busy street, a newly engaged 19-year-old woman jumped to her death from a spectacular arch bridge ...
Lawyers slam demolition work at Pa. collapse site
Attorneys for four people suing over the collapse of a downtown building that killed six people last week lambasted the demolition work after ...
In business, Pakistan's government bleeds
With every flight, Pakistan's state-owned airline demonstrates the economic challenges facing the country's new government. Each time a plane ...
Swedish male train drivers wear skirts to work
Commuters on a train line in northern Stockholm were met with an unusual sight this week: male train drivers and conductors wearing skirts to work.
Iran says it sets up space monitoring center
Iran said Sunday that it set up its first space tracking center to monitor objects passing in orbit overhead, the breakthrough claimed by the Islamic ...
Operator in Philly collapse deaths surrenders
A heavy equipment operator with a lengthy rap sheet who is accused of being high on marijuana when a downtown building collapsed onto a thrift store, ...
San Onofre nuke plant to close after bitter fight
The demise of California's San Onofre nuclear power plant began with an attempt to fix it. A $670 million equipment swap in 2009 and 2010 went ...
'One giant leap' toward a NASA Armstrong center?
Neil Armstrong's name is attached to a lunar crater, an asteroid, more than a dozen schools and a museum. But there's no NASA center named for the man ...
Ky. medical helicopter crash kills 3 crewmembers
The crash of a medical helicopter that killed three crewmembers in southeastern Kentucky on Thursday was the fourth deadly accident in the past six ...
Stocks jump after US jobs report beats forecasts
Steady growth in hiring last month sent the stock market sharply higher Friday. The 175,000 jobs added by U.S. employers last month was just what ...
NASA's veteran Mars rover driving to new spot
NASA's Opportunity rover is rolling across the Martian surface again, leaving behind a clay-rich rock in search of more discoveries. Mission managers ...
From 500 feet above: the Washington Monument
The towering marble symbol of the nation's capital is chipped, cracked and closed, though will soon be pieced back together by engineers working ...
Texas site begins taking federal nuclear waste
Republican mega-donor Harold Simmons' remote hazardous waste dump in West Texas began accepting low-level radioactive material Thursday from a federal ...
Nude revelers greet popular Colorado tourist train
Passengers on a recent run of a popular historic railroad in southwest Colorado got a bit more scenery than they paid for: More than a dozen revelers ...
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