FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- Arkansas didn't believe it could win a year ago, the last time it faced Alabama. That was confession from Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino.

The contest to be part of Ed Miliband's shadow cabinet begins in earnest today as nominations open for Labour MPs eager to serve the new party leader.

AP Texas News © 2010 AP HOUSTON - Houston-area residents have turned over more than 3000 pounds of expired, unused and unwanted prescription medications to federal authorities.

HONG KONG - Tensions between China and Japan over the arrest of a Chinese trawler captain took another turn for the worse Sunday as Prime Minister Naoto Kan of Japan rejected China's repeated demand that Tokyo ...

When Oliver Stone and the stars of "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" needed a first-hand look at the Financial District's shark tanks, they turned to a 35-year-old son of Greek immigrants who left college to seek a fortune trading ...

BEIJING—China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd. said its supply of Apple Inc.'s iPhone 4 handsets is insufficient to meet user demand but that it will increase its supply as quickly as possible.

KOBE, Japan (MarketWatch) -- Bank of Japan Gov. Masaaki Shirakawa said on Sunday that the central bank is ready to take further measures to help keep the Japanese economy on track, but he repeated his opposition to drastic policy ...

Texas is in the postseason for the first time since 1999; the NL races remain wild. The Texas Rangers ended the franchise's decade-long playoff drought Saturday, beating the Oakland Athletics 4-3 to clinch the American League West.

NEWARK, NJ - New Jersey has already thrown enough money at its largest school district to make it among the nation's best-funded, yet it remains in the pits.

NEW YORK - Now that he's here, on the brink of becoming the Red Sox [team stats]' first left-hander to win 20 games in 57 years, Jon Lester [stats] finally will allow himself to think about it.

Instead of looking forward to more talks with a new leader, why not try to topple a weak regime? By CHRISTIAN WHITON North Korea's leaders tomorrow will hold a rare gathering of the ruling Korean Workers' Party.

Workers fix a poster advertising the Commonwealth Games on a roadside in New Delhi September 26, 2010. By Amlan Chakraborty and Sudipto Ganguly NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Workers painted walls, drained out rain water and removed a snake at the Commonwealth ...

CARACAS -- Long lines began forming in the predawn hours in parts of Venezuela Sunday as the nation of 27 million turned out to elect all 165 members of its National Parliament, where both President Hugo Chávez and his rivals are vying for ...

San Francisco Giants catcher Buster Posey, left, taks with starting pitcher Barry Zito after he gave up two runs to the Colorado Rockies in the first inning of a baseball game at Coors Field in Denver on Saturday, Sept.

Lindsay Lohan might have to worry about being sent back to jail next month, but one thing she doesn't have to fret over ... her next movie.

Canadian police are investigating whether a telephone threat to a Pakistani jet which forced a diversion to Sweden was a hoax. The Canadian authorities were contacted by a woman on Saturday claiming that a passenger was carrying explosives.

Gov. Paterson appeared on "Saturday Night Live" last night to poke fun at the show's portrayal of him as a bumbling blind man.

NEW ORLEANS - The administrator of the fund for gulf oil spill victims said people should start getting bigger payments faster. Kenneth Feinberg, Gulf Coast Claims Facility administrator, said he was responding to criticism.