A Fire engulfed a wedding tent in Kuwait Saturday, killing more than 40 revelers and injuring at least 75 others.

Mixing business, pleasure and fish, President Obama continued his sweep through the West on Saturday, bringing his family to Yellowstone National Park before heading to Colorado to sell his plans for health care reform.

The workaday cargo ship the Arctic Sea, which for decades plowed the world’s waterways in obscurity, just had to disappear to be thrust into a swirling drama of rumors and intrigue.

Motola, a female elephant who stepped on a land mine 10 years ago, was fitted Saturday in Thailand for a permanent artificial leg.

A fight among inmates Friday at a prison in northern Mexico killed 19 inmates and left more than 20 injured, Durango state officials said. The battle apparently involved inmates jailed on drug or organized crime charges.

Afghanistan’s Defense Ministry spokesman says a suicide car bomb explosion near the NATO headquarters in the Afghan capital has killed three civilians and wounded 70.

Fire crews fanned out Friday across a parched California where wind-whipped wildfires have forced hundreds of people to flee their homes and led to an emergency declaration in Santa Cruz County.

A Russian-manned cargo ship that vanished last month in the Atlantic was found Friday near Cape Verde off the coast of West Africa, according to French and Russian officials.

HYANNIS, Mass. - Maria Shriver recalls her mother as both a “fearless warrior for the voiceless” who could make politicians quake, and a trailblazing woman who smoked Cuban cigars and played tackle football.

Floods and mudslides unleashed by Typhoon Morakot last weekend have killed about 500 people on the island, Taiwan’s president said Friday as he called on rescue crews to step up their efforts.