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Mitt Romney edged Ron Paul to win the Maine caucuses, the state Republican party announced Saturday. Romney also won the CPAC straw poll earlier.

The legendary singer, who sold more than 170 million albums, singles and videos, had long battled drug and alcohol problems.

Hundreds packed a Tacoma, Washington, church on Saturday to remember the lives of young Braden and Charlie Powell, who police say were killed six days earlier by their father Josh Powell in a double murder-suicide.

An Iraqi interior ministry official was assassinated while driving in Baghdad, one of several deadly attacks Saturday reported by police.

A Syrian general was killed Saturday in Damascus as fresh violence flared in several cities, and world powers sought a way to halt the government's bloody offensive against civilians.

Authorities arrested eight people Saturday -- including five employees of Britain's bestselling Sun newspaper -- as part of an inquiry into illegal payments to police and officials.

Greece's Cabinet approved austerity measures demanded in return for a new eurozone bailout of the debt-stricken country Saturday, a day ahead of a crucial vote in Parliament.

Hosni Mubarak's fall from power a year ago stunned the world -- three decades of iron-clad rule ended in 17 days by an unexpected groundswell of popular protests.

Police have identified three men seen on a video brutally beating a young man and shouting anti-gay slurs in Atlanta.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced Saturday that the nation will reveal "several major achievements in the nuclear domain" within days, state media reported.

We all want to think of medicine as an honorable profession and that the people in it work with integrity, but a new survey shows that may not be exactly true.

From the runway to main street, nail art has emerged as a democratic form of self-expression that anyone can participate in.

Websites affiliated with the CIA, Mexico's mining ministry and the state of Alabama were down Friday, allegedly done in by hackers, government officials and a well-known hacking group reported.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops denounced President Barack Obama's compromise over whether to require religiously affiliated institutions to provide contraception to female employees, saying the proposal raises "serious moral concerns," according to a statement posted on its website late Friday.

Initial tests detected blood on a comforter found in a storage unit in Washington state belonging to Josh Powell, authorities said. Powell, who was considered a person of interest in his wife's disappearance, killed himself and his two sons at their home last week.

A trio of House Republican freshmen told an annual gathering of conservative activists on Friday that, far from backing down, they believe they should double down on the conservative principles that carried them into office in 2010 on a wave of tea party support.

Los Angeles public school officials are working with sheriff's detectives to determine whether other schoolchildren were victims of alleged teacher sexual misconduct at Miramonte Elementary School, a spokesman said Friday.

Nearly a week after Russia and China vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution intended to halt the killing in Syria, Saudi Arabia has drafted a similarly worded document -- but one that lacks the same punch.

Obama says all women will have birth control coverage, but religious institutions won't have to pay for it. He said women's health shouldn't be tied to the workplace.

Rio de Janeiro's police and firefighters declared a strike Friday, just a week before Carnival kicks off, raising fears of violence and crime as tourists arrive for the famed parades and street parties.