Kevin West

An asteroid large enough to wipe out France hurtled past the Earth at a distance of a half-million miles just days after scientists spotted it.

A passenger holding a shoe punched a flight attendant and opened the rear door of a Southwest Airlines jet as it was about to take off for Las Vegas, authorities said.

Ozzie Smith, regarded as the finest-fielding shortstop in history, was elected to baseball's Hall of Fame by an overwhelming margin Tuesday in his first year of eligibility.

Mike Shanahan decided Tuesday to stay with the Denver Broncos, turning down a possible move to succeed Steve Spurrier as Florida football coach.

U.S. forces in Afghanistan captured two senior al-Qaida terrorists and seized laptop computers, cell phones and training documents near a huge cave complex filled with tanks and weapons that has been heavily bombed in recent days, Pentagon officials said

The terrorist attacks and the slipping economy combined to cause the biggest drop in mail volume in more than 30 years, the Postal Service reported Tuesday.

Pakistan has agreed to allow U.S. troops in Afghanistan to cross the border in pursuit of fugitive al-Qaida or Taliban leaders, the American commander of the war says.

Michael Jordan's wife has filed for divorce, citing "irreconcilable differences" with the basketball superstar after 12 years of marriage. They have three children.

Dave Thomas, the portly pitchman whose homespun ads built Wendy's Old-Fashioned Hamburgers into one of the world's most successful fast-food enterprises, has died. He was 69.

An airplane passenger holding a shoe struck a flight attendant and opened the plane's rear door, disrupting a Southwest Airlines flight about to take off for Las Vegas, authorities said.