Thanks to the growth of smartphone adoption, about half of U.S. mobile phone owners use their devices while watching TV, a new study suggests.

An elderly man suspected of Nazi war crimes has been arrested in Hungary, prosecutors said Wednesday, after a worldwide Jewish rights organization discovered him living in Budapest.

Laszlo Csizsik-Csatary tops the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of most-wanted Nazis. Center says he participated in sending 15,700 Jews to Auschwitz in spring 1944.

The South African leader's family celebrates his birthday with a champagne toast. The frail anti-apartheid icon has not appeared in public for years. However, he is celebrated worldwide especially on his birthday.

An island of ice twice the size of Manhattan broke off this week from a Greenland glacier, a University of Delaware researcher reports.

Two civil rights groups are suing the CIA director, the defense secretary and two military commanders over two covert U.S. strikes that killed three Americans in Yemen last year.

Some foreign students who enroll and graduate from U.S. flight schools are in the U.S. illegally, despite extensive post-9/11 efforts to vet student pilots, congressional investigators said Wednesday.

Hans Kristian Rausing was charged Tuesday with preventing the lawful and decent burial of his wife.. "Her tragic death highlights the scourge of drugs" for rich and poor, a family statement says.

Investigators still don't know what led to the gunfire in Toronto. The two people killed were 14 and 23 years old. About 100 people were at the party when the shooting broke out.

Dutch authorities say six needles have been found. A military police spokesman in the Netherlands says a criminal investigation is under way.

North Korea said Tuesday that it had promoted a little-known general to a key military rank, a day after it announced that it had relieved its army chief of all his government posts.

Dutch authorities have joined the FBI in conducting criminal investigations into the discovery of needles in six sandwiches aboard four Delta Air Lines flights from Amsterdam to the United States, a military police spokesman in the Netherlands said Tuesday.

United Arab Emirates report the dead and wounded were Indian fisherman. One person appears to have been killed, U.S. officials say. The boat approached too near the USNS Rappahannock, officials say. The shots were intended to disable the boat, they say.

A worldwide Jewish rights organization is pushing Hungarian authorities to prosecute a man it claims is a Nazi war criminal, recently discovered in Budapest, Hungary, who allegedly sent more than 15,000 Jews to Auschwitz in the spring of 1944.

The brutal mauling of a 24-year-old surfer in the waters off Western Australia over the weekend has local officials pondering an end to a ban on killing great whites, according to a report from news.com.au.

Sudanese took to the streets Friday in a fourth week of protests against rising prices and called for the ousting of the government.

At least three people were killed and 14 people were wounded after an explosion at a mosque in Maiduguri, Nigeria, a spokesman for the Red Cross said Friday.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center says it tracked down Ladislaus Csizsik-Csatary. He allegedly participated in sending 15,700 Jews to Auschwitz in spring 1944. Facing deportation, he fled Canada in 1997. The center is urging Hungarian authorities to prosecute him.

Yahoo on Tuesday said it is hiring Google executive Marissa Mayer to be its next CEO.

An American vessel fired on a boat Monday off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, killing one person and injuring three, according to a U.S. consular official in Dubai.

In Greec, the young professional class will help shape their country's future. Together, they must decide if they are willing to live through -- and help alleviate -- Greece's pain.

When a website that claims more than a half-billion monthly visitors gets hacked, users pay attention. So when we wrote Thursday about hackers who published login information for more than 450,000 Yahoo users, readers had plenty to say about it.

A Russian Soyuz craft launched into the morning skies over Kazakhstan on Sunday, carrying three astronauts on their way to the international space station where they will quickly start preparing for a frenzy of incoming traffic.

Having pressed the new Egyptian president, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday sought to mobilize what influence the United States still has with the army chief whose key role in post-Hosni Mubarak Egypt is splitting the country between those who see the military as a threat to democracy and those clinging to it as a guarantor of stability.

The International Committee of the Red Cross said it now considers the conflict in Syria a civil war, meaning international humanitarian law applies throughout the country.