A small airplane slammed into a sheer cliff in the mile-high mountains east of Phoenix and exploded, killing the six people onboard, including the pilot and his three young children who were to spend the Thanksgiving holiday weekend with him, authorities said.
She performed live in front of a television audience of millions week in and week out on Season 10 of "American Idol," but at the Detroit Lions/Green Bay Packers game on Thanksgiving, Lauren Alaina's nerves got the best of her as she flubbed the National Anthem.
The body of an alleged Mafia boss, who U.S. authorities said once led New York's notorious Bonanno crime family, was fished out from a river north of Montreal on Thursday.
Mexico's archaeology institute downplays theories that the ancient Mayas predicted some sort of apocalypse would occur in 2012, but on Thursday it acknowledged that a second reference to the date exists on a carved fragment found at a southern Mexico ruin site.
CIA officers are asking people to mark the 10th anniversary of the death of the first American killed in the Afghan war by donating to help the children of their fellow fallen.
Friends and acquaintances are lending support to an Arizona mother who lost her three children and her ex-husband in a plane crash in the Superstition Mountains.
Gunmen burst into a restaurant in Mali's most famous city of Timbuktu on Friday, grabbed four tourists dining there and executed one when he refused to climb into their truck, said a witness and an official who inspected the body.
Egypt's new prime minister says the military has given him greater powers than his predecessor.
The Syrian armed forces say in a rare televised statement that six elite military pilots have been killed in an ambush.
Utah authorities say they rescued a 25-year-old man who was stuck in a pool of quicksand for eight hours.
