Vikings coach Brad Childress says Brett Favre won't come out retirement to play for Minnesota. Childress confirmed to The Associated Press in a text message on Tuesday that the three-time MVP quarterback for the Green Bay Packers would not join

After a flurry of hugs, handshakes and hatch closings, the shuttle Endeavour and its crew backed away from the international space station on Tuesday, ending an 11-day visit.

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday voted to approve Sonia Sotomayor as the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice over nearly solid Republican opposition, paving the way for a historic confirmation vote.

Auto dealers around the country report that the first weekend of the $1 billion "cash for clunkers" program, officially titled the Cash Allowance Rebate System, is off to a good start.

Top House Democrats sought to minimize the impact of a near-certain missed deadline for health care legislation on Tuesday as the leadership struggled to ease the concerns of rank-and-file critics.

Americans are looking past the stock market surge and signs of a stabilizing economy and focusing on something more personal — job worries.

The high-profile trial of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi concluded Tuesday with the court announcing it will deliver its verdict at the end of the week, officials and diplomats said.

A father and two sons who used dozens of Chinese slaves as part of Britain’s biggest DVD piracy operation, were jailed for up to six years each today.

Britain says it will withdraw its remaining forces in Iraq to Kuwait, after the Iraqi parliament failed to pass a deal allowing the British troops to stay beyond the end of the month.

Gunmen killed eight security guards and made off with nearly $7 million Tuesday during an early morning robbery at a bank in central Baghdad that police say is the work of insurgents attempting to finance their operations.

An Australian woman was rescued after spending a week wedged between her toilet and the bathroom door, an official said Tuesday.

Police have arrested four suspects in the kidnapping and killing of the daughter of Mexico's former sports commissioner, a case that provoked huge protests against crime and police incompetence.

Taliban militants are receiving more funding from their sympathizers abroad than from Afghanistan's illegal drug trade, the U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Rescuers searched by sea and air Tuesday for nearly 70 Haitians after an overloaded sailboat ran aground and capsized in the reef-studded waters off the Turks and Caicos Islands, killing at least 15 migrants.

Security forces have rescued several children forcibly recruited by the Taliban, allegedly to be used as fighters or homicide bombers, with the possibility of hundreds more children like them.

A former football coach in Great Britain faces a life prison sentence after he was found guilty Tuesday of murdering a young model who named her killer with her dying words.

Originally published anonymously, James Lever's book claims to tell the life story of the chimp who gained 1930s Hollywood stardom in "Tarzan" movies.

Mexican health officials say a three-year-old boy has died of injuries he suffered in a June fire at a day care center in northern Mexico, bringing the death toll from the blaze to 49.

Iraqi forces raided a camp housing members of an Iranian opposition group north of Baghdad on Tuesday in a move that ran contrary to U.S. wishes and prompted clashes.

The top U.N. official in Afghanistan warned that next month's presidential elections will be the most complicated he has ever seen, while a gunman opened fire on a campaign team for the top challenger to President Karzai, killing one campaign