A Rancho Santa Margarita man was charged today with killing his wife of 39 years by allegedly beating her over the head with a small statue during an argument.

The 33 miners trapped in a collapsed Chilean mine settled in Tuesday for a lonely, months-long waiting game as a giant drill slowly bored through the earth to reach them.

The White House on Tuesday urged Iraq to move with ""a sense of urgency"" in forming a new government after months of delay, as the United States prepared to formally end combat operations.

A former member of a United Nations probe into massacres in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the mid-1990s said Tuesday that a fresh investigation must lead to the killers being brought to justice.

New York voters overwhelmingly do not want a mosque to be built near the New York City site of the September 11, 2011 terrorist strikes, according to a new poll out Tuesday.

Police killed a suspected rebel in Chechnya Tuesday after he opened fire on them and took three people hostage, Interior Minister Ruslan Alkhanov said.

A Taste of Persia pavilion will among the several dozen tasty selections for those with tickets to the highly-anticipated 9.