Chen Guangcheng, the blind lawyer whose escape from house arrest jolted U.S.-China relations, left China on a flight bound for Newark, N.J., with his wife and children on Saturday.

Over the last five years, Facebook employees have met with members of Congress and walked them through ways to best to use the Web site.

There is one hospital in Kabul that treats anyone, from any side, no questions asked. The horrors of the war blow through its doors every day.

For countless listeners, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, with his vocal beauty and directness, was their first guide to the art of the song.

The launch of a rocket owned by the private company SpaceX and carrying cargo for the International Space Station was aborted at the last second early Saturday.

The left-wing leader Alexis Tsipras, who pledges to repudiate Greece’s austerity-for-loans bailout deal, says the country’s problem is a European one, necessitating a European solution.

A bomb exploded in front of a school in southern Italy on Saturday, killing a 16 year-old girl and wounding at least six others, two seriously, authorities said on Saturday.

At a time of fiscal austerity, critics are pointing to the cost of a helicopter part made by a company whose owners are donors to Representative Harold Rogers, a Kentucky Republican.

The Costa Concordia, the cruise ship that ran aground in January, will be lifted onto a platform beginning next week and then towed away to be demolished

The House beat back an unusual coalition of liberal and conservative lawmakers and approved a contentious $642 billion Pentagon policy bill.

At the end of his career, Dr. Robert L. Spitzer has reached a painful conclusion: “I believe,” he wrote in a letter, “I owe the gay community an apology.”

As American negotiators prepare for nuclear talks next week in Baghdad, they say recent statements from Iran and pressure from sanctions have raised the chances of compromise.

François Hollande, in his first meeting with President Obama as France’s president, restated his pledge to withdraw combat forces from Afghanistan by the end of the year.

The brother of Mary Richardson Kennedy, who killed herself this week in Westchester County, went to court to challenge her husband, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., over control of her body.

Kobe Bryant didn't miss on 18 free throws and scored 14 of his 36 points in the fourth quarter, and the Los Angeles Lakers rallied late for a 99-96 victory over Oklahoma City in Game 3 on Friday night.

In a sworn interview with a prosecutor, a girl who was speaking on the phone with Trayvon Martin before he was killed tells of Mr. Martin’s growing fear as he was followed.

Justin Verlander came within two outs of his third career no-hitter, allowing only Josh Harrison's ninth-inning single in the Detroit Tigers' 6-0 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Friday night.

Andre Iguodala snapped a tie game with five straight points in the final 90 seconds to help the Philadelphia 76ers storm back from 15 points down and stun the Boston Celtics 92-83 on Friday night in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinals.

Texas Rangers president and CEO Nolan Ryan said Friday afternoon he expects the club won't provide slugger Josh Hamilton with a new contract during the season.

The Chicago Cubs' Kerry Wood retired on Friday after his final strikeout.