Blood found at the home of the man accused of murdering missing April Jones in a sexually motivated attack matched that of the five-year-old, a court hears.

Andy Murray expresses disbelief over drugs scandal Operation Puerto, asking if it is the "biggest cover-up in sports history".

Venezuelan lawmakers punched, kicked and shoved one another as a postelection conflict between President Hugo Chavez's heirs and rivals blew up into a brawl on the floor of congress.

T-Mobile USA, the country's fourth-largest cellphone carrier, says it has completed its acquisition of MetroPCS.

The maker of one of the Internet's most popular browsers is taking on one of the world's best-known purveyors of surveillance software, accusing a British company of hijacking the Mozilla brand to camouflage its espionage products.

He's rock royalty and likes to keep it old-school: Keith Richards says he doesn't own an iPod.

Russian police say a bomb has exploded in a busy shopping area in the capital of the restive republic of Dagestan, killing at least two people.

As Jodi Arias' trial wraps up this week after four months of testimony, her fate rests in part on the testimony of expert witnesses who have offered up one clinical diagnosis after another for the small-town waitress and aspiring photographer from California to explain why she killed her lover five years ago.

Economists say the European Central Bank could cut interest rates as soon as Thursday because of fears that the euro area's economy isn't recovering - even though top bank officials themselves caution that a cut won't do much good.

The first gay couple granted a civil union in Colorado said their vows before hundreds of people early Wednesday morning at a downtown Denver municipal building, where eager couples and members of the public gathered to celebrate the first legal unions.

When poison-laced letters were sent to President Barack Obama and two other officials, it didn't take long to track down a suspect based on a phrase in one of the letters often used by a 45-year-old Elvis impersonator named Kevin Curtis: "I am KC and I approve this message."

Adverse reactions to zolpidem, the ingredient in Ambien and other sleep drugs, are rising.

Police released a sketch of a man sought for questioning.

It was hailed as a giant step forward for racial integration in a country that has long been ill at ease with its growing immigrant classes. But Cecile Kyenge's appointment as Italy's first black cabinet minister has instead exposed the nation's ugly race problem, a blight that flares regularly on the football pitch with racist taunts and in the diatribes of xenophobic politicians - but has now raised its head at the center of political life.

Intake has fallen over the past decade, but it's still higher than most experts recommend.

7 Americans were killed after a cargo plane took off from Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan

Wines from the French presidential cellar at the Elysee Palace are going under the hammer in Paris at the end of May, auctioneers Drouot say.

NEW YORK (AP) — More than 50 bands will help keep the party rolling for 24 hours during the O Music Awards.

Seven civilians, six from Michigan, were killed in a cargo plane crash taking off from Bagram Air Field.

Marks of butchery evident on teen's remains discovered at the site.