Engineers were able to force heavy mud down into the well, which looks like it has successfully stopped the crude from flowing.

Tuesday's killings follow the assassination of a member of the country's ruling Muttahida Qaumi Movement party on Monday.

Medical teams were sent to northwest Pakistan on Monday to be on hand for a possible cholera epidemic triggered by the district's heavy monsoon rains. The floods have killed some 1,200 people and displaced 2 million from their homes.

A passenger jet plane crashed in Pakistan on Wednesday, killing all 152 people on board.

WikiLeaks.org released some 91,000 classified documents about the war in Afghanistan on Sunday.

Closing arguments in the Blagojevich case heated up on Tuesday when the defense attorney, Sam Adam, Jr., delivered his closing argument to jurors in the case of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his brother, Robert Blagojevich.

U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton held two hearings today on the implementation date of Arizona's new immigration law, which is scheduled to go into effect next Thursday.

Georgia's former U.S.D.A. employee says she is considering a new job at the agriculture department.

Crew members aboard dozens of ships in the Gulf of Mexico are ready to evacuate in the face of a tropical rainstorm brewing.