The rise of these superbugs, along with increased pressure from the government and insurers, is driving hospitals to try all sorts of new approaches to stop their spread.

Nets, harpoons and suicide robots could become weapons of choice to hunt down the space junk threatening crucial communications satellites currently in orbit round Earth, scientists said Thursday.

The discovery of an unattended backpack led police to close down some streets in Downtown Seattle Tuesday morning.

Jonathan Winters, the cherub-faced comedian whose breakneck improvisations and misfit characters inspired the likes of Robin Williams and Jim Carrey, has died. He was 87.

NEW YORK (AP) — Cookie Monster stands accused of shoving a 2-year-old. Super Mario was charged with groping a woman. And Elmo was booked for berating tourists with anti-Semitic slurs.

Times Square is crawling with entrepreneurs who dress up...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is about to find out that bending central bankers to his will was the easy part of jolting Japan's economy out of its two decade slump.

A two-day standoff between Hoquiam police and a man who allegedly shot one of their officers ended in a fiery gun battle that left the suspect dead early Thursday.

The year is 1912, and the setting is Columbia, a city that floats in the sky as a beacon of freedom. When the protagonist arrives, he's greeted by statues of Benjamin Franklin, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, transformed from mere founding...

Police and a bomb squad shut down a Keizer road to investigate a suspicious device found on a sidewalk Sunday afternoon.