Orange Bowl victory over Cincinnati gives Virginia Tech its first major bowl win since 1995.

The war, in a sense, is over. But while there may not be peace, or victory, citizens ask: What next?

To understand the president-elect, friends and relatives say, one must understand Hawaii.

Senior Hamas leader is killed as military officials prepare for a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip.

Discovery suggests a comet strike 13,000 years ago caused Earth to revert to glacial conditions.

Israel showed no sign of slowing a blistering seven-day offensive against Hamas militants in Gaza, destroying homes of more than a dozen of the group's operatives Friday and bombing one of its mosques.

Australia will likely reject a U.S. request to accept detainees from the Guantanamo Bay detention camp for terror suspects, the acting prime minister said Friday.

Federal commission recommends a 50% increase in taxes on gas, but some say its really a fee to combat climate change

Rocket attacks from Gaza have forced Israelis to flee in ever greater numbers, escalating the belief among Israel's military chiefs that Hamas missiles could threaten the nation's top secret nuclear facility at Dimona.

Intelligence officials and a resident say at least three Pakistani militants have been killed in a suspected US missile attack close to the Afghan border.

Two men are dead after a pair of avalanches at British Columbia's Whistler Blackcomb resort.

Growth rates among corals on the Great Barrier Reef have slumped to their slowest in at least four centuries and growth is expected to cease within 26 years.

The U.S. is preparing to pour at least 20,000 extra troops into south Afghanistan, augmenting 12,500 NATO soldiers who have proved too few to cope with a Taliban insurgency that is fiercer than NATO leaders expected.

Two men and two teens have been arrested on suspicion of gang-raping a woman last month in the San Francisco Bay area while allegedly taunting her for being a lesbian, police said Thursday.

President Raul Castro predicted Cuba's revolution would survive another half-century as the communist government marked the 50th anniversary of its triumph with subdued celebrations amid fears of economic hardship following three devastating hurricanes.

A one-time resident of this city who had been bitter over its transformation into a playground for the rich left four gift-wrapped bombs downtown in a bank-robbery attempt, turning New Year's Eve celebrations into a mass evacuation, police said Thursday.

Authorities are looking for a man they say killed his ex-wife and two others before taking off with his two young children early Thursday.

Southern California made a strong case of its own to be No. 1.

Before donning the Santa Claus suit that would disarm his first victim, Bruce Pardo spent months plotting his Christmas Eve massacre behind a mask of friendliness that fooled his neighbors.