Wire Nation/World

The Associated Press - Updated: 10:53 pm

Russell Westbrook scored 28 points and Kevin Durant had 19 points to help the Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Utah Jazz 101-87 on Friday night.

Staff at The Sun tabloid arrested in bribe inquiry

By JILL LAWLESS - Updated: 3:08 am

Five staff at Britain's largest selling tabloid The Sun were arrested Saturday along with three other people over alleged bribes paid to police and defense officials, detectives and the newspaper's parent company said.

Jessica Korda leads Women's Australian Open

The Associated Press - Updated: 1:03 am

American teenager Jessica Korda moved into position for a two-sport, father-daughter Australian double, shooting an even-par 73 in windy conditions Saturday to take the Women's Australian Open lead at Royal Melbourne.

Gunmen assassinate army general in Damascus

By BASSEM MROUE - Updated: 3:43 am

Syria's state-run news agency says gunmen have assassinated an army general in the capital Damascus.

Video Report

O'Reilly's OT goal lifts Avs to 4-3 win

By PAT GRAHAM - Updated: 9:09 pm

Ryan O'Reilly scored on a slap shot with 1.2 seconds remaining in overtime and Jean-Sebastien Giguere stopped a season-high 39 shots in the Colorado Avalanche's 4-3 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes on Friday night.

Vahid Salemi / AP Photo

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gestures as he deliver his speech at a rally to mark the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution that toppled the country's pro-Western monarchy and brought Islamic clerics to power, Tehran, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012. Ahmadinejad says Iran will soon reveal "very big new nuclear achievements."
Chris Pizzello / AP Photo

Angelina Jolie, director of the Golden Globe-nominated foreign language film "In the Land of Blood and Honey," poses at the Golden Globe Foreign Language Nominees Seminar, Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012, at the Egyptian Theater in Los Angeles. Jolie says she's nervous and excited about the upcoming premiere in Sarajevo of her Bosnian war movie "In the Land of Blood and Honey." The film, which is showing at the Berlin International Film Festival on Saturday Feb. 11, 2012, is set to make its full debut in the Bosnian capital on Feb. 14, though it already has been shown to some groups there.
Petros Giannakouris / AP Photo

Greek communist party member hang banners in Greek and English against EU policies under the temple of Parthenon at the Athen's Acropolis hill on Saturday Feb. 11, 2012. Lawmakers from two parties backing Greece's coalition government are meeting Saturday to consider support for legislation containing new austerity measures, which Socialist leader George Papandreou has urged his deputies to back, saying the country faces disaster if the new bailout deal falls through.
Petros Giannakouris / AP Photo

Greek communist party banner denounces EU policies under the temple of Parthenon at the Athen's Acropolis hill on Saturday Feb. 11, 2012. Lawmakers from two parties backing Greece's coalition government are meeting Saturday to consider support for legislation containing new austerity measures, which Socialist leader George Papandreou has urged his deputies to back, saying the country faces disaster if the new bailout deal falls through.
STR / AP Photo

In this Friday, Feb. 10, 2012 photo, Syrian doctors treat a wounded rebel who was injured by the Syrian government forces shelling, at a makeshift hospital in the Khaldiyeh neighborhood in Homs province, central Syria.

National News

The nation's weather

By WEATHER UNDERGROUND - Published: 1:58 am

Weather Underground Forecast for Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012.

Police: 3 found dead in Wash. home - 1:38 am
Marine honored for Afghanistan counterattack - 11:23 pm
Woman pleads guilty in NY newborn kidnap case - 7:59 pm
Hotel marketed to gay travelers to open in NYC - 6:08 pm
Coroner in Ohio changes ruling in 1972 death - 7:05 pm
APNewsBreak: Satellite spots tanks in Syrian city - 10:53 pm

World News

Staff at The Sun tabloid arrested in bribe inquiry

By JILL LAWLESS - Updated: 3:08 am

Police: Journalist couple killed in Bangladesh - 2:33 am
US sex abuse lawsuit against Vatican dismissed - 2:33 am
Thousands march against nuclear power in Japan - 1:48 am
Harper says China will lend panda pair to Canada - 3:43 am
Aung San Suu Kyi campaigns for Myanmar parliament - 3:38 am
Car bomb seriously wounds Iraqi police chief - 12:48 am

Political News

Obama urges extension of payroll tax cut

The Associated Press - Published: 3:13 am

President Barack Obama is calling on Congress to extend a payroll tax cut for the remainder of the year as another deadline nears for Congress to act or see taxes go up for millions of working Americans.