Analysis: Raul Castro’s recent announcement that he will leave power in 2018, and his appointment of 52-year-old Miguel Diez-Canel as first vice president and his de facto successor, are signs of the glacial pace of political change in Cuba.

These beastly feasts exist somewhere between the hard edge of gunpoint diplomacy and the soft belly of “Man v. Food.”

Syria and Iran on Saturday condemned a move by the United States to give non-lethal aid to rebels fighting to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, accusing Washington of double standards.

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Secretary of State John Kerry will stress the importance Egypt achieves political consensus for painful economic reforms needed to secure an IMF loan, a senior U.S. official said on Saturday.

No, it’s not a mirage. An impossibly huge and colorful garden is blooming in the desert climate of Dubai, aiming to set world records and lure visitors with sensory delights.

PST: Can Chris Wondolowski successfully repeat his Golden Boot? Will the Galaxy complete the three-peat? Those are some of the compelling questions as MLS kicks off Saturday.

An Indiana firm that recalled its Zachary Chocolate Covered Marshmallow Eggs less than a month before Easter over fears of salmonella contamination now says that a test was wrong and the candy is fine.

There was still no sign Saturday of a 37-year-old Florida man swallowed by a sinkhole that appeared under his bedroom, an official said, as engineers resumed testing.

Carnival Films and Masterpiece on PBS said Saturday that the actress will be in the finale, and also revealed that six new faces are joining the show.

Engineers were expected to carry out more tests Saturday on the ground around a sinkhole that appeared under a home in Florida, swallowing up a 37-year-old man from his bedroom.

Chadian President Idriss Deby announced Friday that Chadian troops fighting to dislodge an al-Qaida affiliate in northern Mali killed one of the group's leading commanders, Abou Zeid.

A door-to-door salesman selling home fire alarms noticed smoke coming from a Texas home, heard a woman screaming and broke a window to rescue her.

A California beauty queen has claimed she was a potential victim of a man charged with raping a woman he met on a Christian dating website.

The armed forces mourned a grim toll in 2012 when more troops took their own lives than died in combat, but a precarious question remains: Why is the rate spiking?

Months after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, new state-level restrictions on guns have been slow in coming.

Environmental groups plan to table a motion at a conference on endangered species in Bangkok next month calling for sanctions against hosts Thailand over the trade in elephant ivory.

The man known as the East Coast Rapist has been sentenced to three terms of life in prison plus 80 years. Aaron Thomas, of New Haven, Conn.

President Hugo Chavez has been receiving chemotherapy since recovering from a severe respiratory infection in mid-January and "continues his battle for life," his vice president said late Friday.