The White House is getting ready for the big holiday barbecue and fireworks show at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

There's a new building in town, and it isn't a military barracks or a hospital. It's a Tourist Information Center.

It was still dark outside when a spidery man in his underwear answered the knock at the factory door, releasing a wave of heat and gritty smoke from the noisy room behind him.

On a rocky hillside in central Afghanistan, men in visored helmets and protective blue smocks gently scratch the earth for land mines _ or shards of pottery from the sixth century.

A Yemeni aviation committee says pieces of wreckage from the passenger jet that crashed off the Comoros islands have been recovered.

The head of an Irish humanitarian aid agency appealed Saturday for the release of two of its employees kidnapped in Darfur.

Police on Saturday identified five of the six people killed when fire swept through a London high-rise, as investigators try to find out what started the blaze and whether the building's design contributed to the tragedy.

In dueling holiday addresses, President Barack Obama appealed for public support of his domestic programs and Sen. John McCain said Americans should side with Iranian election protesters.

Congress returns for its midsummer session Monday with a Senate supermajority not super enough for President Barack Obama's top priorities to pass without Republican support.

Protesters have clashed with police at a demonstration against the planned expansion of an airport and U.S. military base in the northern city of Vicenza.