More than 300 people attended a Catholic mass and memorial ceremony Wednesday night for two Plant City men fatally shot last week and one teen that died in a car crash Sunday. ...more

December 10, 2008

Cancer will overtake heart disease as the world's top killer by 2010, part of a trend that should more than double global cancer cases and deaths by 2030, international health experts reported Tuesday. Here's a look at the statistics from the new report by the World Health Organization. ...more

December 10, 2008

Riot police charged into a group of doctors and nurses protesting Zimbabwe's deepening economic and health crisis, eyewitnesses said Wednesday as deaths rose sharply from a cholera epidemic blamed on collapsing infrastructure. ...more

December 4, 2008

Set up the pins, clear the lanes and try not to roll a gutter bird. ...more

November 24, 2008

Colombia's government readied emergency measures Sunday to appease irate investors who lost tens of millions of dollars in the collapse of pyramid schemes that caused riots, scores of arrests and two deaths. ...more

November 17, 2008

Police on Thursday night arrested Ramon Antonio Varela, who they say took part in a robbery last week in which the victim fought back and shot and killed Varela's partner. ...more

November 14, 2008

Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson appealed on Sunday for the public's help in finding her 7-year-old nephew, missing since the shooting deaths of her mother and brother. ...more

October 26, 2008

Timeline of the Steven Lorenzo/Scott Schweickert case ...more

October 11, 2008

The list of products caught in China's tainted milk scandal grew Friday to include baby cereal in Hong Kong and snack foods in Japan. Meanwhile, Taiwan reported three children and a mother with kidney stones in the island's first cases possibly linked to the crisis. ...more

September 27, 2008

Afghanistan's president criticized civilian casualties from foreign bombing raids, telling world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday that innocent deaths can seriously undermine the legitimacy of efforts to fight terrorism. ...more

September 25, 2008