One of President Obama’s top foreign-policy goals suffered a potentially ruinous setback Friday when the Senate’s second-ranking Republican said the U.S. nuclear treaty with Russia should not be considered until next year.

At least two people were killed and 17 others wounded as clashes between government forces and Islamic militants rocked parts of Mogadishu, Somalia, on Saturday, a local ambulance group said. The clashes erupted around the city’s notorious Bakara...

What you see above isn’t a rural gravel road. It’s a Louisiana waterway, its surface completely covered with dead sea life — a mishmash of species of fish, crabs, stingray and eel. New Orleans CBS affiliate WWL-TV reports that even a...

The desperate quest to find loved ones started just minutes after the earthquake, as cell phones rang unanswered from beneath the rubble of Haiti’s best hotel. A few hours later, the search went online with a Facebook page dedicated to the Hotel...

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro said he acknowledges the persecution of gays and lesbians during the Revolution in his country, according to a newspaper interview published Tuesday. Throughout the 1960s and ’70s, Cuba sent openly gay men to...

Authorities say a teenager has been shot to death in a fight between rival gangs at a gay parade in southeastern Brazil. Police say the teenager was shot when the gangs got into a confrontation late Saturday as they headed to the parade attended by...

On the 100th anniversary Tuesday of Japan’s annexation of the Korean peninsula, office worker Hwang Jung-won listened as Japan’s prime minister apologized for his nation’s role in decades of harsh colonial rule. But like many others...

Former President Fidel Castro visited the National Scientific Research Center, or CNIC, in Havana last week, his first public appearance since he fell ill in 2006, the official Cubadebate Web site reported. The Web page published five photographs of...

The family of a 28-year-old British woman who unknowingly received a lung transplant from a smoker says she would have been “horrified” and have lodged a complaint. Cystic fibrosis sufferer Lyndsey Scott in February 2009 received a double...

Debrahlee Lorenzana is filing a lawsuit against Citibank because they fired her, she says, for the strangest reason: she’s too hot. She’s 5′5′’, 125 pounds and well, you’ve seen her photo. “Where I’m...