Embattled lawmaker Charlie Rangel, who is embroiled in an ethics investigation, celebrated his 80th birthday Wednesday with a lavish party at New York's Plaza Hotel.

David Beckham's glittering international career has apparently been brought to an end after England coach Fabio Capello announced his fate in a pre-match television interview.

No one knows yet whether former Sen. Ted Stevens and four others killed in an Alaskan plane crash initially survived but died awaiting rescue, the NTSB says.

A woman sentenced to death told Iranian TV she knew of a plot to kill her husband but thought it was a joke. One of her lawyers said the remarks were coerced.

One of about every 12 babies born in the United States in 2008 was the offspring of unauthorized immigrants, a Pew Hispanic Center study released Wednesday concluded.

For 34 years, she has obsessed about food, relationships, work, and her mother -- but now Cathy the comic-strip character is about to say goodbye.

Zsa Zsa Gabor is back in her Bel Air, California, mansion three weeks after getting a new hip to replace the one broken in a fall last month.

Two fugitives who were believed to have been heading for the northwestern U.S. or Canada may have been spotted in Arkansas, the U.S. Marshals Service said.

Fantasia Barrino left the Charlotte, North Carolina, hospital Wednesday where she was admitted Monday after overdosing on "aspirin and a sleep aid," her manager said.

A military jury at the U.S. facility in Guantanamo Bay recommended a 14-year prison term for a Sudanese man who served as cook and driver for Osama bin Laden.

A JetBlue flight attendant who grabbed a couple of beers and slid off a plane through the escape chute has been released on bail.

The start of the Muslim holy month coincided in Pakistan with the nation's worst natural disaster, the scope of human suffering revealing itself in wretched ways.

A suspected serial bank robber dubbed the "Granddad Bandit" was arrested in Louisiana on Wednesday afternoon, authorities said.

A federal jury weighing the fate of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich in his corruption trial telegraphed Wednesday it may be deadlocked on some counts of the indictment.

Former Illinois congressman Dan Rostenkowski, who rose through the ranks of Chicago's rough-and-tumble political scene to become one of the most powerful men on Capitol Hill, has died, according to the office of Chicago Alderman Richard Mell.

Strong thunderstorms and gusty winds could move over the site of BP's crippled well in the Gulf of Mexico starting Wednesday.

The body of a retired restaurateur who's been missing for two years has been found in a freezer in the French city of Lyon, police there told CNN Wednesday.

It took rescuers hours to reach the site of the plane crash that killed former Sen. Ted Stevens and four others. Ex-NASA boss Sean O'Keefe and three others survived.

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