The police officer in charge of Mexico City's anti-kidnapping department was shot and killed Friday morning as he left his home in the capital city, authorities said.
Emergency crews in North Carolina plan to assess damage Friday morning after a reported tornado killed one person and injured three others in the central part of the state.
Aid agencies are furious over the Myanmar's government's refusal to allow them to distribute food and supplies flown in for cyclone disaster victims.
Teenagers who use marijuana put themselves at higher risks for serious mental health problems, including worsening depression, schizophrenia, anxiety and suicide, according to a new White House report.
Sen. Barack Obama on Friday closed in on Sen. Hillary Clinton's lead among superdelegates, the Democratic officials who hold the balance of power in determining the party's presidential nominee.
CNN's Ted Rowlands investigates whether cult leader Charles Manson may have killed more people than once believed.
Supermodel Heidi Klum sends a greeting to thank troops for serving.
A new children's book is stirring controversy for the way it portrays marijuana use. KATU reports.
Lawrence O'Donnell talks about a possible exit strategy for Hillary Clinton.
Folk-rock singer Josh Ritter talks to CNN's Shanon Cook about his songwriting approach.
There isn't anything metropolitan about this tiny unincorporated town in southwest Wyoming, where a few single-family homes and a volunteer fire station stand against a skyline of snowcapped mountains.
Hundreds of thousands of displaced Iraqis may have to go without food or health care unless foreign aid increases, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday.
From Mississippi to Maryland, storms toppled trees and destroyed homes. Tony Harris reports.
Some people call Wilmington, North Carolina, "Hollywood East" because of all the movies and TV shows filmed here. In the last three decades, more than 400 feature films, documentaries and television series have been shot and edited around town, drawing notable actors from Andy Griffith to Richard Gere.
A Maryland high school baseball coach saves a player's life on the field. WBAL reports.
A pro-government television station burns as clashes continue in Beirut.
CNN's Alessio Vinci reports that the European Commission is taking Italy to court over the waste crisis in Naples.
The government says mortgage repossession orders in England and Wales were up 17 percent in the first quarter of the year compared to the same period in 2007.
She's not just fast. She's very fast.
A gunman in Kenya shot and killed the head of a World Food Program office that provides relief for neighboring southern Sudan, the WFP said on Friday.
Hezbollah militias took control of western Beirut on Friday, dealing a major blow to the U.S.-backed government in the worst sectarian violence since the end of Lebanon's civil war in 1990.
The city of Mostar lies at a crossroads of cultures: just inland from the Adriatic coast, in the southern part of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Mostar -- where Orthodox Serbs, Catholic Croats and Muslim Bosniaks had lived in seeming harmony before the war, then suffered horribly when its warring neighborhoods turned the city into a killing zone -- provided me with one of the richest experiences of my travel year.
An Austrian judge ruled Friday that a man suspected of keeping his daughter captive in a dungeon for more than two decades should remain in custody, an official said.
The suspected leader of a drug trafficking ring was among seven students who pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges stemming from an undercover operation at San Diego State University that netted more than 100 arrests.
Married couples with joint incomes of up to $1.5 million from their farm operation could still qualify for crop subsidies under a five-year, $300 billion farm bill compromise that would boost the Agriculture Department's food and farm programs.
Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will announce on Saturday whether he will take part in a presidential runoff, a spokesman for his party said Friday.
CNN's Candy Crowley reports on the latest Superdelegates making their way out to support Barack Obama.
A man suspected of killing several women in this city over several terrifying weeks was convicted Thursday of two of the slayings and of attacking a third woman who survived.
A storm tears through North Carolina destroying homes, toppling trees and upsetting planes.
Viewers compete with 360 staff to come up with the best caption for a photo in the news today.
CNN's Cal Perry reports Hezbollah forces seized control of half of Beirut.
A former New Jersey governor reaches a child custody agreement with his estranged wife. News 12 reports.
CNN's Lola Martinez has your Friday morning forecast in the international weather update.
Three teenagers were arrested after two of them told police they dug up a secluded grave north of Houston, removed the skull from the coffin and converted it into a marijuana bong.
Ehud Olmert's political opponents demanded his resignation Friday, saying new allegations that the Israeli prime minister illegally accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars from a U.S. citizen render him unfit for the country's top job.
Motorists honked horns and screamed at each other as lines lengthened to fill their tanks cheap.
Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz hate on each other with dynamite verve in "What Happens in Vegas."
"Speed Racer," the Wachowski Brothers' first film as writer-directors since "The Matrix Reloaded" five years ago, is a dizzying pop-art confection.
French cosmetics giant Lancome and Uma Thurman are wrangling over the use of her name and image in an advertising campaign.
"We were a normal red-blooded American family," recalls Rudy Aguilar. "And ... it took [one day] to wipe us out."
Shiite gunman seize several Beirut neighborhoods.
Protestors in Minye, Lebanon burn tires and carry posters of Rafik and Saad Hariri.
Some superdelegates abandon Hillary Clinton, while others offer to sell their votes to her.
Celebrities speak out on calls to boycott the Olympics. Kareen Wynter reports.
If a stay-at-home mom could be compensated in dollars rather than personal satisfaction and unconditional love, she'd rake in a nifty sum of nearly $117,000 a year.
Elaine Quijano reports on President Bush as he prepares to walk his daughter down the aisle.
Visiting a particle accelerator is like a religious experience, at least for Nima Arkani-Hamed.
A journalism think tank studying "The Daily Show" doesn't believe many people get their news from Jon Stewart -- because otherwise they wouldn't get the jokes.
In the words of Vice President John Nance Garner, the vice presidency "isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss."
In honor of Mother's Day, iReporters pick the one word that best describes their moms.
Slovenia's foreign minister says the European Union will send a delegation to Georgia in the upcoming days to try to prevent an escalation in tensions in the former Soviet state's relations with Russia.
"It came out of nowhere."
Barbara Aldrich can hardly remember a time when she wasn't a little overweight.
Coyotes are on the attack in southern California, zeroing in on kids. Dan Simon reports.
U.S. Army Sgt. Jacque Keeslar lost both legs in Iraq nearly two years ago. To get around, he relies on a wheelchair and a pair of artificial legs, which help him walk in short bursts.
In the current desperate real estate market, it's important to do everything you can to make your house attractive to prospective buyers.
Teens were arrested after they told police they dug up a grave, removed a skull and made it a bong.
CNN's Dan Rivers continues his exclusive reports on the destruction and human terror caused by the cyclone that hit Myanmar.
The U.S. military in Iraq denied widespread reports Friday that trumpeted the capture of a top Iraqi insurgent leader.
CNN's Dan Rivers talks to the World Food Program's Tony Banbury who makes a plea for aid to be allowed into Myanmar.
The Charles Manson murder spree of 1969 ended in a remote Death Valley, California, cabin called Barker Ranch. It's where Manson and members of his cult "family" hid after the seven murders, dubbed the "Helter Skelter" killings that terrified the country.
A funnel cloud was spotted in Dayton, Ohio.
Africa's food production could double in a matter of years and help stabilize spiraling food prices if wealthy nations help small farmers with simple agricultural reforms, a top U.S. economist said Thursday.
Authors Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark discuss their latest books.
The U.S. Navy begins to ship out to Myanmar, bringing with them much needed aid.
Ljuban Panic, a 23-year-old business studies student from Novi Sad, Serbia's second city, has walked 80 kilometers through the Fruska Gora mountains to attend the Democratic Party's final rally in Belgrade ahead of Sunday's crucial parliamentary elections.
From his prison cell, accused rapist Josef Fritzl speaks to magazines. CNN's Diana Magnay reports.
A gorilla recognized as the world's oldest in captivity celebrated her 55th birthday by munching down a four-layer frozen fruit cake and banana leaf wrapped treats.
Gun fire broke out in downtown Beirut on Thursday after Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said recent government actions amount to "a declaration of open war."
Japanese photographer Naoki Honjo is known for his cute representations of familiar places, shot to look like miniature models of the real thing. He achieves this effect by using the tilt-shift technique, which creates a very narrow line of focus. As he writes in the afterword of his book "Small Planet" published in 2006: "Small changes in point of view can lead to big changes of consciousness. I think this is the role of photography."
Hezbollah forces assume control of western Beirut. CNN's Brent Sadler reports.
Rev. Al Sharpton comments on the Democratic presidential campaign and says Sen. Clinton should drop out.
CNN's Larry King talks with a spokesman for the mothers of the children seized in the FLDS polygamist compound raid.
AJ Hammer talks with his panel about Star Jones' public criticism of Barbara Walters' memoir of her past exploits.
A construction company owner who lost two homes in Hurricane Katrina claimed a $97 million Powerball prize, a jackpot won off a ticket he bought at a convenience store where he stopped to buy his wife a gallon of milk.
North Koreans are dying because of food shortages in rural areas, and a massive famine is just a matter of time, a South Korean aid group said Friday.
Abu Ayyub al-Masri, the head of al Qaeda in Iraq, has not been captured, a senior U.S. military official told CNN on Friday.
The Haq trial continues as both the defense and prosecution examine and cross-examine psychopharmacologist Robert Julien.
Missiles, tanks and other heavy weaponry rolled through Moscow's Red Square in the annual Victory Day parade Friday, reviving a tradition of the Soviet era and demonstrating Russia's growing military confidence.
Russian president Dmitry Medvedev and newly appointed prime minister Vladimir Putin attend a parade in Moscow.
Sounds of gunfire still rang through the air in Beirut Friday morning, after raging gun battles a day earlier.
A portrait of Hollywood star Heath Ledger painted weeks before his death has won an Australian art award.
Monks and government workers were seen clearing the streets of trees and other debris in Yangon on Friday.
A 'Victory Day' parade in Moscow's Red Square is a full-scale display of military muscle.
Despite overwhelming odds, Hillary Clinton is still in it to win it. CNN's Jessica Yellin reports.
iReporter and detective Scott Floyd sent in video of a tornado in Tupelo, Mississippi, that overturned a semi-truck.
iReporter David Perish went to Papa Johns Thursday in Cleveland and pizza only cost .23 cents in honor of NBA star.
CNN's Matthew Chance sits down with former Soviet president, Mikhail Gorbachev, to discuss Russia's future new leadership.
The death toll from China's outbreak of hand-foot-mouth disease has risen to 32 -- all of them children -- the state-run Xinhua news agency reported Friday, citing provincial health officials.
"CSI" co-star Gary Dourdan has been charged with felony possession of heroin, cocaine and ecstasy stemming from his arrest last month, prosecutors said.
CNN's Don Riddell asks Brian Agland of CARE Myanmar what efforts are taking place so far in Myanmar.
Mariah Carey really did get married to Nick Cannon in the Bahamas last week -- and they have the tattoos to prove it.
The United States is considering air-dropping aid to victims of the cyclone in Myanmar even without permission from the military government, a U.S. official said Thursday.
Is it still possible for Clinton to win the nomination? She says she'll fight till WV votes.
A U.S. Marine accused of raping a 19-year-old Japanese woman last year was found guilty Thursday of "committing wrongful sexual contact and indecent acts," the U.S. military said, but he was acquitted of rape.
Our favorite dancing prisoners from the Philippines are back with some new moves.
Throughout her life a woman should keep up with important medical tests as CNN's Judy Fortin reports in this Health Minute.
Russian military parades give the U.S. little insight into future intentions. CNN's Barbara Starr reports.
UK aid agencies and the government are working to get aid into Myanmar. CNN's Paula Hancocks reports.
London's newly elected mayor has a history of gaffes to overcome, Robin Oakley reports.
CNN's Thelma Gutierrez asks Thomas Tighe about his worries that aid won't reach those in need in Myanmar.
CNN's Charles Hodson speaks with Robert Greifeld of Nasdaq OMX about his company's rise in earnings.
The videotaped beatings of three restrained men by several members of the Philadelphia police force were inexcusable but had nothing to do with race, the city's mayor and police commissioner said Thursday.
Three Florida teens were arrested Thursday on charges they sexually assaulted a female classmate aboard a school bus parked at the high school they attend.
An oil rig hits a pocket of gas, resulting in an explosion that injures five workers.
CNN's Jason Carroll takes to the Philadelphia community following a police beating caught on tape.
Bolivian President Evo Morales said Thursday he supports a congressional decision to hold a referendum on whether he and his administration should remain in power amid a move for autonomy that he opposes.
We explore global headlines, two entrepreneurs work to engage young voters, and a Texas town sets up for a significant wedding.
Mexico's federal police chief was shot to death early Thursday in a northwestern Mexico City neighborhood, the country's public safety department said.
Nancy Grace reports on an American Idol contestant who was arrested for allegedly sending racy messages to young boys.
Carrie Lee reports on the sale of U.S. crime control technologies to Communist China.
The sentencing of a Wisconsin gun owner has been delayed. Bill Tucker reports.
A computer file called "Thai--Luv," seized in Norway and packed with child pornography, had frustrated Interpol investigators for more than two years.
The United States has signed off on a European plan that would offer increased incentives for Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment program, senior State Department officials said Thursday.
The apparent assassination of a Mexican police leader is the tenth federal killing in three weeks. Casey Wian reports.
A cyclone with winds up to 120 mph (190 kph). A low-lying, densely populated delta region, stripped of its protective trees.
CNN's Brian Todd reports on the relief effort under way for victims of the Myanmar cyclone.
Militias are alive and fighting in Lebanon, despite U.N. resolutions. CNN's Richard Roth explains.
CNN's Ted Rowlands reports from the Barker ranch, where a local detective is searching for victims of the Manson family.
Geologists said a 260-foot-deep sinkhole that grew to the length of three football fields over just two days seemed to be slowing down Thursday, but it could take months before it's clear whether surrounding areas are stable.
As the US economy slows, Best Buy becomes the latest retailer to move into Europe. CNN's Jim Boulden reports.
Sen. Hillary Clinton touts her Catholic support and helps someone who fainted in the audience by offering water.
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A lottery winner was found stabbed to death. Prime News investigates how some people have a hard time with easy money.
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A bill that would allow the government to guarantee new mortgages for homeowners facing foreclosure passed the House on Thursday, but it faces a veto threat from the White House and an uncertain fate in the Senate.
The classic animated story "Speed Racer" zooms on to the big screen.
The Myanmar government is allowing some aid to come in, but officials say supplies are too little too late.
CNN Headline News' Eric Lanford has this weekly report for us from the world of amateur news enthusiasts.
Sen. Barack Obama said Thursday that the most important thing he could achieve as president would be to deal with Iraq and the threat of al Qaeda in Afghanistan while improving "our influence around the world."
Nearly a week after a volcano erupted in Chaiten, Chile, disgorging its contents across a wide area of the Andes Mountains, authorities finished evacuating the area most affected.
A criminal investigation should be opened into whether the operators of Utah's Crandall Canyon mine purposely misled safety officials about mine conditions before the deadly 2007 collapse, the chairman of a House investigation committee said Thursday.
Sen. Barack Obama said he has the judgment to be commander-in-chief and responds to John McCain's comment that Hamas would be happy if he become president.
CNN's Mark Preston talks about Sen. Barack Obama's interview with Wolf Blitizer.
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon speaks with CNN's Fredricka Whitfield about the crisis in Myanmar.
A tornado swept through parts of Tupelo, Mississippi, on Thursday, damaging trees, power lines and overturning a 18-wheel truck, a law enforcement official said.
Elizabeth Edwards and Lance Armstrong testify about the challenges faced by Cancer patients.
CNN's Sara Sidner reports from Bangkok on international aid waiting to help cyclone victims in Myanmar.
Tech enthusiast Chris Pirillo tells us what technology must hit the road with you when you travel.
A teen is charged with driving through school athletic fields, causing people to flee for their lives, police said. WCVB reports.
An Ethiopian immigrant, a high-tech CEO and an Israeli soldier are among the diverse voices that make up Israel. Atika Shubert reports.
A clash between Arab protesters and police, and a paratrooper's crash-landing during a ceremonial jump marred Israel's 60th independence day festivities Thursday.
CNN's Phil Black reports on growing impatience with Myanmar's reluctance to accept foreign aid for cyclone victims.
Airplanes have started doing aerial drops of supplies to people in Myanmar.
WVLT's Mike McCarthy reports on crop circles found in a Monroe County, Tennessee backyard.
Jack asks: Should Obama offer Clinton the number two spot on the ticket as a way of getting her to quit the race now?
CNN's Stephanie Elam has the latest business news in the evening CNN.com Business Bulletin.
The leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, was arrested in the northern city of Mosul, the Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman said Thursday.
Sen. Barack Obama takes questions from iReporters as he talks with Wolf Blitzer in CNN's 'Situation Room.'
Shiite supporters of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah and Sunnis backing Lebanon's U.S.-allied government are fighting.
Two journalists and the lawyer for a third have been arrested in Zimbabwe in recent days, their spokesmen said Thursday, amid signs that the Zimbabwean government is intensifying a post-election crackdown.
Police are investigating whether Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert received money illegally while he was mayor of Jerusalem and the nation's minister of industry, trade and labor.
Shiites and Sunnis battle in the streets of Beirut following a speech by a Hezbollah leader.
Fighting continues between Shiite supporters of Iranian-backed Hezbollah and Sunnis backing Lebanon's U.S.-allied govt.
CNN's Jaime McIntyre discusses Associated Press reports that the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq has been arrested.
A family in Beirut, Lebanon is pinned down by gunfire as fighting continues in the streets.
In Session's Beth Karas has the latest on the trial of Naveed Haq, accused of killing one and wounding five others at a shooting at a Jewish center nearly two years ago.
In a 2006 report CNN's Barbara Starr looks at the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri. (June 14, 2006)
Senators Clinton and Obama have words for Sen. McCain. Sen. McCain delivers pizza to a New York firehouse.
Some wounded and disabled vets are using segways to get around.
Endangered scarlet macaws born in captivity are reproducing in the wild for the first time on Costa Rica's southern Pacific coast.
Sen. Barack Obama was greeted enthusiastically on the floor of the House of Representatives on Thursday, where the Democratic presidential candidate spent about half an hour chatting with members.
They drive hybrid cars, if they drive at all; shop at local stores, if they shop at all; and pay off their credit cards every month, if they use them at all.
A pedophile suspect who became the subject of an international manhunt this week after an appeal from Interpol has been detained in the United States.
Sen. Barack Obama is in the Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer for his first interview since his North Carolina win.
A boy who was hit by a hybrid car says he never heard it coming.
(CNN Student News) -- Record the CNN Special Investigations Unit Classroom Edition: Busted! Mortgage Meltdown when it airs commercial-free on Monday, May 12, 2008, from 4:00 -- 5:00 a.m. ET on CNN. (A short feature begins at 4:00 a.m. and precedes the program.)
Facebook, the world's second-largest social networking Web site, will add more than 40 safeguards to protect young users from sexual predators and cyberbullies, attorneys general from several states said Thursday.
The man accused of imprisoning his daughter for 24 years and fathering her seven children said that he knew his actions were wrong and that he "must have been crazy," according to comments published Thursday.
A court in Tunisia convicted 14 young Islamic militants Thursday of trying to build a hydrogen bomb and sentenced them to up to 14 years in prison, a lawyer said.
CNN's Sandra Endo is listening to Washington voters in this week's "Election Express Yourself."
There's a courthouse adage: A person who represents himself has a fool for a client.
CNN's Octavia Nasr discusses the latest developments in Beirut, and explains what the Arab Broadcast Forum is.
Deptu Political Director Paul Steinhauser talks about the campaign.trail.
The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday approved sending $15 billion to states to buy and fix up foreclosed property.
About 12 seconds was all it took for two bailiffs to gun down a man who shot at them in a courthouse lobby, and authorities said the swift response helped prevent anyone else from being seriously hurt.
On a nonstop flight to Las Vegas, Spirit Airlines loses Michael Germano's checked luggage. He files a missing luggage report and a lost luggage claim, but the airline is ignoring his requests for compensation. What's going on, and how can Germano get Spirit to respond?
The Sony NWZ-A720 Walkman series is a subtle evolution of the NWZ-A810 series we enjoyed in 2007. This year, Sony is treating us with a larger screen and a more assertive design, offered in 4GB ($149), 8GB ($199), and 16GB ($299).
Early on in the new "Sex and the City" film -- and don't worry, we're not spoiling the plot here -- Carrie and longtime love Mr. Big are in bed together.
Eddy Arnold, whose mellow baritone on songs like "Make the World Go Away" made him one of the most successful country singers in history, died Thursday morning, days short of his 90th birthday.
Islamist insurgents attacked two Ethiopian troop convoys, and the soldiers responded by turning on civilians and killing at least 17 of them in rural Somalia, witnesses said Thursday.
In Session's Jami Floyd has the Last Word on whether people should get married.
A beauty queen wants to join Britain's Parliament. CNN's Linzie Janis reports.
Police charged 13-year-old Calverton Middle School students with attempted rape, robbery, burglary, and trespassing.
Police and soldiers are forcefully removing some 130 people who have refused to leave the area around the erupting Chaiten volcano in southern Chile.
Russia has ordered two American military attachés at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow to leave the country following the expulsion of a pair of Russian diplomats from Washington, U.S officials said Thursday.
A top official in Baghdad said the capital's biggest stadium is one of three locations being prepared for residents fleeing Baghdad's Sadr City, where Iraqi and U.S. forces have been fighting Shiite militants for weeks.
A Buddhist pagoda was flattened by Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar but the statue of Buddha only had minor damage.
The police officer in charge of Mexico City's anti-kidnapping department was shot and killed Friday morning as he left his home in the capital city, authorities said.
Emergency crews in North Carolina plan to assess damage Friday morning after a reported tornado killed one person and injured three others in the central part of the state.
Aid agencies are furious over the Myanmar's government's refusal to allow them to distribute food and supplies flown in for cyclone disaster victims.
Teenagers who use marijuana put themselves at higher risks for serious mental health problems, including worsening depression, schizophrenia, anxiety and suicide, according to a new White House report.
Sen. Barack Obama on Friday closed in on Sen. Hillary Clinton's lead among superdelegates, the Democratic officials who hold the balance of power in determining the party's presidential nominee.
There isn't anything metropolitan about this tiny unincorporated town in southwest Wyoming, where a few single-family homes and a volunteer fire station stand against a skyline of snowcapped mountains.
Hundreds of thousands of displaced Iraqis may have to go without food or health care unless foreign aid increases, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday.
Some people call Wilmington, North Carolina, "Hollywood East" because of all the movies and TV shows filmed here. In the last three decades, more than 400 feature films, documentaries and television series have been shot and edited around town, drawing notable actors from Andy Griffith to Richard Gere.
The government says mortgage repossession orders in England and Wales were up 17 percent in the first quarter of the year compared to the same period in 2007.
She's not just fast. She's very fast.
A gunman in Kenya shot and killed the head of a World Food Program office that provides relief for neighborin