The Labor Department says productivity dropped 0.3 percent in the
April-June quarter, following a decline of 0.6 percent in the first
three months of the year.

The parents of California teenager Abby Sunderland, who was stranded at sea, say she has been rescued by a French fishing crew.

Four of the six jurors from the murder trial of neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman are distancing themselves from statements another juror made in a televised interview.

A Colorado man who wrote a how-to guide for pedophiles is on his way to a jail in central Florida.

A pro-democracy group in Swaziland says four activists have been arrested ahead of planned protests.

President Barack Obama's campaign is releasing a documentary that portrays the president as a determined figure who confronted the economic downturn and handled a series of problems with tough decisions.

Scientists from several universities have reported plumes of what appears to be oil suspended in clouds that stretched for miles.

Researchers found that people who took the drugs had about a 1 percent higher risk of getting cancer than people who weren't on the drugs. But there was no difference in the rate of cancer deaths.

There around 27,000 abandoned wells in the Gulf, and an Associated Press investigation showed this month that they're not checked for leaks.

Norfolk Southern Corporation to help preserve land in South Carolina.

Klimenko urged the world not to consider the act barbaric.

The overnight outburst underlined a growing inclination for radical actions.