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A top lieutenant in a Mexican drug cartel has been arrested in northern Mexico, federal police said in a statement Wednesday.

French national police Tuesday detained a couple after the bodies of eight newborn babies were found in northern France, some in a home and others in the garden of another home, the French Interior Ministry said.

An Air Force C-17 cargo plane crashed on a local training mission near the Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska on Wednesday, a captain at the base told CNN.

A legal battle over a tough Arizona immigration law appeared certain after a federal judge Wednesday blocked the most controversial parts of the law.

One hundred days after an oil well operated by BP ruptured in the Gulf of Mexico, the man overseeing the federal response is optimistic that steps planned for the coming days will finally, permanently seal the well.

The Justice Department's office of inspector general has launched an investigation into whether large numbers of FBI agents may have improperly taken a test on guidelines for agents, according to FBI Director Robert Mueller.

A teenage girl "averted a tragedy" by calling 911 from inside a wildly weaving car to report her mother, who ended up being charged with drunken driving, New York State Police said.

Bear attacks on separate campsites in Montana left one person dead and two others injured Wednesday, according to wildlife officials.

Three iPad users claim that because the iPad will shut itself off after remaining in direct sunlight for long enough, it fails to meet the promises Apple made about using the device as an e-book reader.

The whistle-blower website WikiLeaks has published what it says are more than 90,000 United States military and diplomatic reports about Afghanistan filed between 2004 and January of this year.

A man claiming to be the chief of an al Qaeda-linked organization in the north African country of Mauritania claimed in a video Sunday that the terrorist group has executed a 78-year-old French hostage.

The vessel that engineers are using to drill a relief well was back on site near BP's ruptured deepwater well Sunday, But officials said storms could continue to thwart containment and cleanup efforts.

BP Sunday refused to confirm reports that its embattled chief executive Tony Hayward was on the verge of leaving the oil giant. British media reported today that Hayward could be out as soon as Monday.

One of two American service members who were abducted in Afghanistan on Friday has been killed, provincial government officials said Sunday. The other U.S. sailor still is missing.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Sunday said his country will stop exporting oil to the United States if there is a military attack stemming from escalating tensions between Venezuela and Colombia.

At least 200 structures have been destroyed and 1,100 damaged after a dam on an eastern Iowa lake failed, unleashing a torrent of floodwaters, a spokesman for the governor said Sunday.

Lance Armstrong may not make it onto the podium in his last Tour de France ever, but his team will still ride into Paris' Champs-Elysees with pride Sunday, wearing all-black jerseys with the number 28 emblazoned on them.

The death toll from a stampede at a music festival is now 19, police in Duisburg, Germany, said today. At least 400 were injured during Saturday's "Love Parade 2010."

Albert Contador was crowned Tour de France champion for the third time on Sunday as Mark Cavendish won the final stage of cycling's premier event, which was delayed after seven-time winner Lance Armstrong's team were ordered to change their jerseys.

Tropical Storm Bonnie is expected to pass the southern tip of Florida on Friday afternoon before making landfall Sunday between New Orleans and southeastern Texas.