| |Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
BRUSSELS — Two officials say Britain has launched a bid to formally have the European Union declare the Lebanese party Hezbollah's military wing a terrorist organization.
| |Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
NEW YORK — Target Corp. reported a 26 percent drop in first-quarter profit as cool temperatures and financial pressures limited customers' appetite for spending.
|Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
ROME — A judge in Italy has ordered the captain of the Costa Concordia to stand trial in the shipwreck of the cruise liner, which struck a reef off Tuscany last year, killing 32 people.
|Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
WASHINGTON — The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency says U.S. officials are "going neighborhood to neighborhood" to make sure Oklahoma gets the help it needs.
|Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
GOMA, Congo — A spokesman for the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Congo says that a mortar landed in a neighborhood of Goma, a major city in eastern Congo, which last year was briefly overrun by a rebel group. The explosion comes as U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Congo's distant capital for a two-day visit that is expected to take him to Goma.
|Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
WARSAW, Poland — Doctors in Poland say they have performed an urgent total face transplant on a 33-year-old man whose face was torn off in an accident which also crushed his jaws.
|Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
BERLIN — Germany says it supports adding the military wing of the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah to the European Union's list of terrorist groups.
| |Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
NEW YORK — Lowe's Cos. said Wednesday that its first-quarter net income rose nearly 3 percent, but results fell short of expectations as rainy weather hurt spring gardening sales.
| |Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
NEW YORK — Anthony Weiner's run for a renaissance is officially on.
| |Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
ATLANTA — The Minnesota Twins were one out away from ending their longest losing streak of the season.