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U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama met Afghan President Hamid Karzai on the second day of a visit to Afghanistan that is meant to bolster the senator's foreign policy credentials.

Beijing started its most drastic pollution-control plan Sunday, restricting car use and limiting factory emissions in a last-minute push to clear smog-choked skies for the August Olympics.

Faced with a spending cap, Republican presidential candidate John McCain is spending more money than he is raising during summer months and methodically reducing cash reserves.

Pope Benedict XVI urged young people Sunday to reject what he said was the "spiritual desert" spreading throughout the world and to build a new age free from greed and materialism.

A British newspaper says a Shiite militia claiming to hold five British hostages in Iraq has said one of them committed suicide.

Cambodia has informed the U.N. Security Council that Thai forces have violated its territory near an ancient World Heritage Site temple where hundreds of troops continued to face off Sunday.

As communities throughout the country descend into economic gloom, churches are providing financial counseling and pointing people to local and state programs that help with finances.

Twice convicted of felonies, James Francis Barton Jr. faces charges of violating a federal law barring felons from owning guns. But he's fighting back using last month's Supreme Court ruling on guns.

The United States said on Saturday after inconclusive international talks with Iran's nuclear envoy that Tehran must choose between cooperation or confrontation and give up nuclear work.

The scrappy Los Angeles Angels are showing they’ve got what it takes to beat the Boston Red Sox.

Four bombs exploded in northern Spain on Sunday — including one outside a bank — causing damage but no injuries, officials said.

Car maker Ford Motor Co is drawing up plans to retool American plants to make small, fuel-efficient passenger cars that it mainly makes and sells in Europe, the Wall Street Journal reported.

A dwarf planet orbiting beyond Neptune has been designated the third plutoid in the solar system and given the name Makemake, the International Astronomical Union said on Saturday.

Last year it was about the candidates. This year, at the Netroots Nation conference of left-leaning bloggers and political organizers, it's the climate.

Brazil's foreign minister touched off a storm Saturday when he said rich countries' deception in trade talks reminded him of tactics used by Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels.

Texas police are searching for a man who slimmed down to escape from jail.

The Batman sequel "The Dark Knight" has set a single-day box office record by taking in $66.4 million on opening day, according to a Warner Bros. executive.

Women grow the food, fetch the water, shop at the market and cook the meals. But when it comes time to eat, men and children eat first, and women eat last and least.