
Ex-Penn St head was top paid among public colleges
Former Penn State President Graham Spanier became the highest paid public college president of 2011-12 when he was forced out over his handling of the ...

2 bodies found after NJ standoff; suspect killed
Police stormed a New Jersey home early Sunday and fatally shot a registered sex offender who had held his girlfriend's three children hostage, ending ...

Women rescued in Cleveland happy to be home
The three women allegedly imprisoned and sexually abused for years inside a padlocked Cleveland house asked for privacy Sunday, saying through an ...
Ryan Seacrest becoming Telemundo kingmaker
Ryan Seacrest will produce a new music series for the Spanish-speaking Telemundo network that will feature two established artists competing against ...

United gives Ferguson winning home farewell
As red-and-white ticker tape flew into the rainy sky above Old Trafford, a beaming Alex Ferguson hoisted up the Premier League trophy for a 13th and ...

Israeli PM criticized for installing bed on plane
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will seek alternate sleeping arrangements when traveling after receiving a sky-high bill for installing a customized ...
Ice from Minn. lake pushed ashore to doorsteps
Strong winds have pushed huge ice sheets ashore at a northern Minnesota lake and right up to people's doorsteps. WCCO-TV reports that the ice from ...

N. Calif. officers seek triple homicide suspect
More than 70 law enforcement officers were part of the ongoing hunt Sunday for a Northern California man wanted in the killing of his wife and two ...

Exit polls: No clear winner in Bulgarian vote
Bulgaria's center-right party and its main challenger, the Socialists, finished first and second in Sunday's parliamentary election, with neither one ...

Egypt's Mubarak talks for 1st time since detention
In his first comments to the media since he was detained more than two years ago, Egypt's ousted leader Hosni Mubarak said he is dismayed at the ...
String of attacks kill 5 in Iraq
Gunfire attacks in Iraq on Sunday killed five people, including a provincial official in a southern city. Violence has been on the rise following a ...
Libyan officials back at work after militia siege
Officials at two Libyan government ministries returned to work Sunday after nearly two weeks of protests by militia fighters, who blocked the ...

Brother arrested in fatal Calif. stabbing of girl
The mother of an 8-year-old girl who was found stabbed to death in her Northern California home and of the 12-year-old boy accused of killing her says ...

Syrian rebels release 4 UN Filipino peacekeepers
Syrian rebels on Sunday released four Filipino U.N. peacekeepers they abducted last week in a dramatic incident that prompted warnings from the ...

Chris Brown's scary curbside art irks LA neighbors
Grammy-winning musician Chris Brown's neighbors are unhappy with what some are calling frightening art he's chosen to have painted along the curb of ...

Leading candidates in Iran's presidential race
The following are potential front-runners in Iran's June 14 presidential election to succeed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The list of candidates will be ...

'Gatsby' gives 'Iron Man 3' a run for its money
Gatsby looks almost as great as a superhero at the weekend box office. Leonard DiCaprio's "The Great Gatsby" partied like it was the Roaring '20s with ...

Politics commandeer stage in Mideast TV contest
TV singing contests around the world tend to serve up light, glitzy entertainment with a dash of emotional drama. But in the Middle East's version of ...
France confirms 2nd case of SARS-related virus
France has confirmed a second case of a deadly new respiratory virus related to SARS, authorities said Sunday, as they increased efforts to inform the ...

Iran's cunning Rafsanjani seeks one more shot
Signs on currency exchange shops in Tehran explained why the doors where temporarily shut: Waiting to see if former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani ...
Holy Land church leaders say clergy mistreated
A dozen senior church leaders in the Holy Land say Israeli police "ill-treated" clergy, including a Coptic Egyptian cleric, during Orthodox Easter ...

Ginsburg: Roe gave abortion opponents a target
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she supports a woman's right to choose to have an abortion, but feels her predecessors' landmark ...

British fugitive caught sunbathing in Spain
Spanish police snuck up on a British fugitive as he sunbathed, arresting him in a dramatic raid that even saw the suspect leap onto the roof of a ...
Banksy graffiti will go back up for sale in London
An artwork by secretive graffiti artist Banksy that sparked controversy when it disappeared from the side of a north London store has been put up for ...
Afghanistan says Iranian guards killed 10 migrants
Iranian border guards killed 10 Afghan migrants and wounded another eight when hundreds tried to illegally cross into Iran in search of work, ...