Prince Harry is going to New York for his first formal overseas engagements outside Britain. It will also be the 24-year-old royal's first visit to the United States since the death of his mother, Princess Diana.

After nine hits and four Academy Awards for films including "WALL-E" and "Ratatouille," the Pixar Animation gang finally feels it has made it to the grown-ups' table with "Up," the first animated movie to open the Cannes Film Festival.

Anna Nicole Smith's former boyfriend and two doctors have pleaded notguilty in Los Angeles to charges they conspired to provide prescriptiondrugs to the former model before her overdose death two years ago.

Depeche Mode lead singer David Gahan is not well enough to perform in Athens on Wednesday, concert organizers said, a day after he was rushed to hospital moments before he was to appear on stage.

The Chicago City Council has voted to ban the sale of baby bottles and sippy cups containing the chemical BPA. Spokesmen for the ordinance's sponsors, Aldermen Edward Burke and Manny Flores, said Wednesday the ban will go into effect early

Cliff Lee outpitched Mark Buehrle, throwing seven innings in the Cleveland Indians' 4-0 win Wednesday to take two of three from the Chicago White Sox. It was the second series the last-place Indians have won this year, and the first

White Sox outfielder Carlos Quentin was out of the lineup against Cleveland for the second straight game with a sore left heel.

The percentage of births to unmarried women in the United States hasbeen rising sharply, but it's way behind Northern European countries, anew U.S. report on births shows. Iceland is the leader with 6 in10 births occurring among unmarried women. About

The Atlantis astronauts have captured the Hubble Space Telescope. Astronautsgrabbed the orbiting observatory early Wednesday afternoon for thefirst time since 2002. Astronaut Megan McArthur caught the schoolbus-sized telescope with the space shuttle's robot arm.

The co-pilot in a February airline crash that killed 50 people inupstate New York was paid a salary so low that she was living with herparents in the West Coast city Seattle and commuting across the U.S. toher job, according

Coast Guard officials say five migrants are being taken to a hospitalafter their boat capsized off the coast of Florida, dumping as many as28 people into the ocean. Spokeswoman Marilyn Fajardo saysthe Coast Guard pulled 13 people from the water

In a reversal, President Barack Obama is fighting the release of dozensof new photos showing U.S. personnel allegedly abusing prisoners inIraq and Afghanistan, a White House official said Wednesday.

A source tells The Associated Press that President Barack Obama isconsidering California Supreme Court Justice Carlos Moreno and morethan five other people as nominees for the Supreme Court.

The family of a 6-year-old boy who was crushed by a garage door on the city's South Side is filing a wrongful death lawsuit.

Chicago Police officers will be hoping to get an 'A' in attitude, under a new system set up to evaluate their performance.

One or more robbers broke into several apartments in a complex in Naperville and got away with jewelry from several of the locations.

CTA Pink and Green Line trains were being held up in the Loop on Wednesday because of a stuck bridge at the Chicago River.

McLean County Sheriff Mike Emery says a pair of central Illinois brothers found dead in March were killed by their father, but it isn't possible to say when.