After months of criticism that it hasn't done enough to prevent foreclosures, the Obama administration has a plan to cut the amount some troubled borrowers owe on their home loans.
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa won a resounding re-election victory Wednesday, beating back a challenge from his former army chief, who rejected the official results and said he feared arrest as troops surrounded his hotel.
Two people were killed and 21 injured when a tour bus ran off a southern Minnesota interstate and rolled over in a ditch, a state official says.
Taliban militants wearing suicide vests storm a guest house used by U.N. staff in the heart of the Afghan capital.
The Obama administration's "pay czar" who reduced pay for executives at seven major corporations does not want broader powers over the rest of the U.S. financial sector.
A car bomb tore through a busy market in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least 100 people as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visited the country.
