LOS ANGELES -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden dropped by JPL on Thursday to outline the agency's plans to capture an asteroid, and to look at a model of a powerful new ion thruster that has enough strength to drag a space rock into orbit around...

PALMA DE MAJORCA, Spain -- Spain's Princess Cristina has been placed under investigation for tax fraud and money laundering.

Judge Jose Castro said Friday he had requested information from the tax authorities after a higher court overturned his ...

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan's president, Asif Ali Zardari, will almost certainly lose his job in September -- and like his predecessor, retired Gen. Pervez Musharraf, he's likely to face criminal charges under the government of newly elected Prime ...

LONDON -- British police arrested two men after an apparent quarrel on board a Pakistani passenger plane Friday forced the flight to be diverted under military escort to a London airport.

The men, aged 30 and 41, were removed from the Manchester-...

LOS ANGELES -- More than three dozen aftershocks, ranging up to a magnitude 4.9, have been registered following a 5.7 earthquake about 150 miles northeast of Sacramento, officials said.

The first quake struck at 8:47 p.m. PDT Thursday; its ...

ATLANTA -- Eighteen people were injured late Friday morning when a hotel shuttle bus and tractor-trailer wrecked at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, according to authorities.

Atlanta Fire Rescue Department spokeswoman Janet Ward said 18 ...