16-year-old boy charged with making racial comment over intercom at southern NJ Walmart

Pope Benedict XVI tells Irish abuse enablers to "openly acknowledge your guilt."

Don't light the cigar yet: Fargo officials stress its too early to celebrate flood victory

Experts: It's impossible to tell whether small quakes are a sign that big ones may follow.

A group of elite long-distance runners had less body fat, better cholesterol and blood lipid profiles, and better heart rates than people being tested for cardiac disease. Paradoxically, however, the runners had more calcified plaque in their heart arteries, according to a study reported this week.

After a decade of declining drug use among US teens, dependence on alcohol, marijuana, and Ecstasy is reported to be on the rise.

Says House Republican leader met with bank exec and strategized on how to thwart reform.

Is it necessary for the U.S. to keep nuclear weapons on instant alert?

A lost generation is emerging as unemployment soars among Latin America youths. Nearly 20 percent are neither studying nor looking for jobs. Victor Rodriguez wants to be a graphic designer, but sees no opportunities for that now amid soaring unemployment among Latin America youths. He break dances at red lights for cash.

A 40-year-old clip from Soviet TV of 'Mr. Trololo' man Eduard Khil has gone viral on YouTube. In an interview, the baritone singer says he doesn't understand why millions suddenly love him now.

This week's list of top viral videos includes awkward musical moments out of Russia and China.

Maryland police save a man who was trying to jump off an overpass.

An ad uses a picture of Jimmy Carter to call Obama the worst president.

Artist Jeremy Dean converts a gas-guzzling vehicle into a horse carriage.

Aruban authorities are dispatching a dive team to investigate a Pennsylvania couple's underwater photograph that may show skeletal remains of Natalee Holloway, an Alabama high school student who went missing on the Caribbean island five years ago.

A California jury has handed down an $18 million award to the family of an 11-year-old boy killed in a vehicle crash attributed to a dangerously aged tire. American Tire Depot (ATD), a Southern California tire-store chain, was found negligent for installing the tire in the Ford Explorer involved in the accident.

Michelle McGee claims she had an affair with Jesse James

Sister Rose Ann Fleming, athletic advisor to the Xavier University Men's basketball team for 25 years, inspires her players to excel as true student-athletes. While other basketball programs maintain low graduation rates for their players, Xavier graduates nearly all its players with Sister Fleming's sometimes "instrusive" help. Xavier also found success on the court this season finishing with a regular season record of 24-8. The Musketeers play in the second round of the NCAA Men's Basketball tournament on Sunday against the University of Pittsburgh.

Scientists in Germany are experimenting with bending light waves to make 3-D objects appear invisible. A true invisibility cloak could be possible someday.