Racing to regain control of the health-care debate, two top administration officials signaled Sunday that the White House might be willing to jettison a controversial government-run insurance plan.

MANCHESTER, N.H. — A 1,224-pound triple vanilla cupcake with pink frosting has set a record as the world’s largest.

LAMPANG, THAILAND — Motola, an elephant who lost a foot and part of her leg when she stepped on a land mine 10 years ago, happily if tentatively stepped out today after being fitted with

North Korea threatened today to retaliate against the U.S. and South Korea over sanctions imposed on the communist regime, a day after South Korea’s president renewed his offer of conditional aid for the impoverished country.

Downpours in northern Sri Lanka have flooded camps housing more than 250,000 people displaced by the fighting between the government and the Tamil Tigers, aid officials said.

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

Hamas crushed an al-Qaeda-inspired group in an hours-long standoff that came to a fiery end when a large explosion killed the radical Muslim group’s leader inside his Gaza home Saturday.

A woman pays her bus fare with 3 trillion in old Zimbabwe dollars — the equivalent of 50 U.S. cents.

Japan’s prime minister expressed deep regret over the suffering his country inflicted on Asian countries during World War II in a ceremony Saturday that marked the 64th anniversary of Tokyo’s surrender.

Health care reform is not that hard to understand, and those who tell you otherwise likely have an ulterior motive.