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Police say a suicide bomber targeting an army vehicle struck the city of Lahore with many casualties feared.

Talking to the Taliban leader in Afghanistan may help bring peace to the country, according to a former Pakistan spy chief once referred to as the "father of the Taliban."

The four-vehicle crash leaves Landra Reid, 69, with a broken back, neck and nose, and Lana Reid Barringer with less serious injuries. The Senate majority leader is able to visit them in the hospital.

The wife and daughter of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid were seriously injured in a car wreck Thursday when their vehicle was rear-ended by a tractor-trailer on a Washington-area interstate, a spokesman said.

Claudia Cabrera and Josue Luna face at least three years in prison in the 2009 crash near campus that left Adrianna Bachan, 18, dead and her friend Marcus Garfinkle seriously hurt.

A husband and wife pleaded no contest Thursday in connection with a hit-and-run crash that killed a USC student and severely injured another as they walked home last year from a fraternity party near campus.

The president is encouraged, but healthcare politics could jeopardize the proposal.

A pair of influential senators presented President Obama with a three-page blueprint for a bipartisan agreement to overhaul the nation's immigration system, but the proposal's viability is threatened by politics surrounding the healthcare debate.

Congressional leaders discuss key issues but admit they might miss a voting deadline.

Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill worked throughout the day Thursday seeking intraparty agreements over abortion, federal insurance subsidies and other issues in a healthcare package they hope to send President Obama before the end of the month.

A Democrat, the mayor of San Francisco is expected to make the announcement Friday. He has been lining up support and collecting donations for the statewide run.

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom will announce Friday that he is running for California lieutenant governor, according to people who were contacted by him.

Several couples wed at the Municipal Palace in Mexico City, which legalized same-sex marriage in December. The law has been challenged by the federal government.

The mayor was there. So were the protesters. Judith Vazquez wore an ivory wedding dress. So did her bride.

Medical care and food supplies arrived quickly, heading off the potential for widespread unrest, officials say. Progress on sanitation and shelter has been slower, posing the threat of a new crisis.

The numbers were apocalyptic: More than 220,000 people killed and 300,000 injured. Over 1 million people displaced from homes. About 280,000 houses either obliterated or damaged. An estimated 25 million cubic yards of rubble to be cleared, much of it from the narrow, congested streets of Port-au-Prince.

The term that evokes images of cups and saucers is now heavily associated with a political movement, muddling the identity of true tea enthusiasts.

During a trip to China in 2006, Tony Gebely fell in love with tea, both the drink and the ceremony of enjoying a calm cup.

So far results appear to be on sectarian lines, with the main Shiite bloc doing well in the south, and the Iraqiya group showing well in Sunni areas. But allegations of fraud could mar the results.

As the first, incomplete results from Iraq's weekend elections trickled in Thursday, a prominent opposition group supported mostly by Sunni Arabs made fraud allegations that could taint the legitimacy of the outcome.

Olsen was one-quarter of the Los Angeles Rams' Fearsome Foursome as well as a familiar face from 'Little House on the Prairie.' He also served for 15 seasons as football analyst for NBC and CBS.

Merlin Olsen, a Hall of Fame defensive lineman with the Los Angeles Rams who was a charter member of the team's famed Fearsome Foursome, then made a remarkably smooth transition into careers in broadcasting and acting, has died. He was 69.

Sen. Christopher J. Dodd's vow to move ahead with a measure without Republican support could deal a devastating blow to Congress' efforts to pass a sweeping overhaul.

Congressional attempts to pass the most sweeping overhaul of financial regulations since the Great Depression suffered a potentially devastating blow Thursday as the lead senator working on the legislation vowed to move forward next week without Republican support.

His troubled Mideast trip approaches its end with a Palestinian threat to pull out of planned peace negotiations.

Vice President Joe Biden, winding up a disconcerting trip to the Middle East, struggled Thursday to keep hopes alive for new peace talks amid Palestinian anger over Israeli plans for new housing construction in a disputed Jerusalem neighborhood.

Thailand mobilizes security forces ahead of anti-government demonstrations by "red shirt" supporters of ousted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

Fighting between Afghan subtribes raises questions about using tribes as part of a counterinsurgency strategy.

“The Demons,” a 12-hour production of a grim Dostoyevsky novel that will be performed only twice, may be the must-see show of the New York theater season.

Lobbyists and military contractors dependent on lucrative no-bid contracts were looking for ways to get around the new House ban involving commercial companies.

Japanese authorities arrested an activist from New Zealand on Friday for illegal trespassing after he boarded a whaling ship last month in waters off the Antarctic.

With little fanfare or resistance, Arizona’s streak of 25 consecutive N.C.A.A. appearances came to an end.