In an Aug. 19 story about the Press Club of Dallas resuming a once prestigous journalism contest, The Associated Press, citing club officials, erroneously reported that...

Heavy rains settled in across areas of North Texas for the sixth consecutive day Wednesday, weakening a bridge and forcing postponement of a homecoming parade planned...

Christie’s says it will auction an Aboriginal boomerang collected by the explorer Capt. James Cook.

Leo Abse, a colorful Welsh politician who took a leading role in liberalizing laws on homosexuality and divorce, has died at age 91.

Jenny the lonely elephant, whose pending move from the Dallas Zoo to Mexico had angered activists, isn’t going anywhere after all.

Adrian Sudbury, a young British journalist who blogged about his fight with cancer and campaigned for more bone marrow donations, died in his sleep Wednesday, his...

Microsoft Corp., expanding on an alliance with Novell Inc., has agreed to buy as much as $100 million more for subscription certificates for Novell’s Linux...

The U.S. dollar was higher Wednesday morning against other major currencies in European trading. Gold prices rose.

Airport operator BAA, owner of London’s Heathrow, may have to sell three of its seven British airports, a competition watchdog said Wednesday.

British oil company BP PLC says testing will begin Wednesday on the closed Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline, which runs through conflict-stricken Georgia, ahead of a...

Jessica Simpson is now selling beer. The singer and actress has signed on as spokeswoman for Stampede Light Plus, made by Dallas’ Stampede Brewing Co.

Britain’s competition watchdog says that airport operator BAA should sell three of its seven U.K. airports.

A father and son are accused of intentionally releasing thousands of gallons of oil into two Pennsylvania streams in the Allegheny National Forest, killing an unknown...

Stung and embarrassed by revelations that its prestigious journalism contest was probably rigged, the Press Club of Dallas is promising changes when it brings back the...

The U.S. dollar was higher Tuesday morning against most major currencies in European trading. Gold prices fell.

Authorities rescued people trapped on the roofs of their cars and stranded in their homes after parts of Northern Ireland received more rainfall in one day than they...

A California mother of three will face trial on an escape charge more than three decades after she fled a Michigan prison.

The “librarian” of a child porn archive accused of amassing nearly 250,000 images pleaded guilty Monday to sending indecent images of children to...

Britain’s domestic spy agency wants gay recruits to know: It’s time to come out of the closet.

A teenager and two other men were convicted Monday of possessing documents useful to terrorists. They are to be sentenced Tuesday.