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WASILLA, Alaska - Even for a nonconformist, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has defied political logic with her sudden, stunning announcement to leave office more than a year early.

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea fired seven ballistic missiles off its eastern coast Saturday, South Korea said, a violation of U.N. resolutions and an apparent message of defiance to the United States on its Independence Day.

Although her stated reasons are hard to pin down, insiders say the Alaska governor's decision is unlikely to lead to a presidential run in 2012

LOS ANGELES - Questions about Michael Jackson's use of prescription drugs are intensifying after a powerful sedative was found inside his home.

Reports of 'swine flu parties' have British health officials warning parents of "seriously flawed thinking", even as the country shifts its policy on treating the pandemic in the face of the virus' rapid spread

Back in 1978, Proposition 13 was a boon to property to owners but it was a slow but sure carcinogen to the body politic. Now the patient is in dire straits

KABUL - Taliban militants fired rockets and mortars at a U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing two American troops and wounding several more in a two-hour battle, officials said.

SYDNEY (AFP) - Australian scientists hailed the country's most significant dinosaur discovery in decades on Friday after three new species were unearthed in a Queensland billabong.

TEHRAN, Iran - A top aide to Iran's supreme leader called the country's main opposition figure a U.S. agent and said in an editorial Saturday that he should be tried for committing crimes against the nation.

CHICAGO - When carpenter Greg Douglas crashed his pickup truck, his toolbox hit him and smashed his ribs and collarbone. After a month in the hospital, the medical bills hit him even harder, totaling $165,000.

GAFFNEY, S.C. - A terrified rural South Carolina community hunkered down over the Fourth of July after the sheriff said a serial killer was on the loose, and longtime residents were reminded of a murderer who terrorized the town in the 1960s.

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea fired seven ballistic missiles off its eastern coast Saturday, South Korea said, a violation of U.N. resolutions and an apparent message of defiance to the United States on its Independence Day.

WASILLA, Alaska - Even for a nonconformist, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has defied political logic with her sudden, stunning announcement to leave office more than a year early.

Although her stated reasons are hard to pin down, insiders say the Alaska governor's decision is unlikely to lead to a presidential run in 2012

MCKEES ROCKS, Pa. - References to television pitchman Bill Mays' trademark image were everywhere at his funeral Friday near Pittsburgh.

LOS ANGELES - Questions about Michael Jackson's use of prescription drugs are intensifying after a powerful sedative was found inside his home.

TEHRAN, Iran - A top aide to Iran's supreme leader called the country's main opposition figure a U.S. agent and said in an editorial Saturday that he should be tried for committing crimes against the nation.

KABUL - Taliban militants fired rockets and mortars at a U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing two American troops and wounding several more in a two-hour battle, officials said.

Back in 1978, Proposition 13 was a boon to property to owners but it was a slow but sure carcinogen to the body politic. Now the patient is in dire straits

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Sarah Palin, the brash, deeply conservative governor of Alaska who crashed onto the U.S. national political scene last year as the Republican candidate for U.S. vice president, announced abruptly on Friday she was resigning as governor.