A United States court martial sentenced a marine to four years in prison for sexually abusing a 14-year-old.

China’s main centers for making and storing nuclear arms lie in the earthquake zone, leading Western experts to look for signs of any damage that might allow radioactivity to escape.

Cole Hamels pitched his first career shutout, Ryan Howard homered and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the visiting Atlanta Braves, 5-0, on Thursday night.

Cardinal Gantin, the son of a railway worker, worked closely with Pope John Paul II and Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI.

The defending N.B.A. champion Spurs forced a Game 7 in a series in which the home team has won every game by at least 11 points.

Thousands of civilians fled when former opponents in Sudan’s civil war between north and south clashed in the oil-rich central town of Abyei, officials said.

The Dalai Lama criticized China’s suppression of unrest in Tibet and insisted that the region wanted to live in peace with China under genuine autonomy.

CNN apologized to China after the government strongly complained about remarks made on April 9 by the CNN commentator Jack Cafferty.

An election tribunal in Lahore accepted the nomination papers of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, paving the way for him to run in legislative elections on June 18.

An excavation near Arles has found what is thought to be the only surviving bust made of Julius Caesar during his lifetime, the newspaper Le Monde reported.

A Moscow court sentenced eight members of a nationalist group who took part in the bombing of a Moscow produce market intending to kill immigrant workers to prison terms of from two years to life.

Tendai Biti, the secretary general of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, protested the government’s decision to delay the presidential runoff up to 90 days. By law, the election — pitting Morgan Tsvangirai, of the opposition, against President Robert Mugabe — was supposed to take place by May 23, or 21 days after results were announced for the first round of voting. The delay, he said, allows the government to continue a campaign of violence that the opposition says has claimed at least 32 lives, including, on Tuesday, two founding members of the party’s youth assembly.

Chaitén, the town in the Patagonia region abandoned by residents after a volcano erupted, has been almost entirely flooded by a rain- and mud-swollen river.

A previously unknown variety of ant, with a staggering propensity to reproduce and no known enemies, is flourishing in Texas.

Persistent drought and the threat of tighter water supplies prompts Los Angeles plans to begin using heavily cleansed sewage to increase drinking water supplies.

A judge rejected a request to hold new hearings on a contentious plan to move the Barnes Foundation’s art collection from the suburbs to downtown Philadelphia.

Two military helicopters were vandalized on the production line at a Boeing factory near Philadelphia, the Defense Department said as it offered a reward in the case.

People 60 or older should be vaccinated with Zostavax against shingles, a painful disorder related to chickenpox.

Inadequate training, outdated tactics and aging equipment helped lead to the deaths of nine Charleston firefighters battling a furniture store blaze last year.

Six sea lions caught in traps at a major dam on the Columbia River died of heat exhaustion, not gunshots, as had earlier been suspected.