Kevin West

A 3-year-old boy accidentally hanged himself on a rope swing while playing in a tree, police said.

Three flights were delayed Sunday at the Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport when a long-pronged metal fork was found in a shopping bag.

The Embry-Riddle baseball team scored six runs in the sixth inning to soar past North Georgia College and State, Sunday at University Ballpark.

Rescue workers pulled hundreds of bodies from a canal Monday after a series of explosions at a munitions depot shook Nigeria's commercial capital, destroying homes and businesses over a wide area, witnesses and rescue workers said.

Toys R Us Inc. plans to cut 1,900 jobs and to close 27 Toys R Us stores and 37 Kids R Us stores in a drive to cut costs and boost its operating profits.

Xerox Corp. reported Monday it lost $4 million in the fourth quarter, citing weak economic conditions that contributed to a 13 percent decline in revenue.

A Wall Street Journal reporter has apparently been taken hostage in Pakistan by a group seeking repatriation of detained Pakistani fighters in Cuba and the release of Afghanistan's former ambassador to Pakistan.

A U.S. Navy submarine and an amphibious transport ship collided off the coast of Oman on Sunday as they were attempting to get into position to transfer two sailors going home on emergency leave. No one was injured.

Israeli police were hesitant to call her a suicide bomber, saying it wasn't clear if the woman intended to kill herself or if the bomb exploded prematurely as she walked along Jaffa Street, the main commercial strip in west Jerusalem.

Beginning Feb. 19, those applying for citizenship will have to pay $310, a $60 increase from the previous year. It is the second increase in three years, and some immigration advocates have expressed frustration at the rising costs.