See Videos »
Dear valued AOL News reader: Sphere.com is now the place for top news from the AOL News team, with original reporting, analysis and commentary from our ever-growing cast of top-notch journalists. Get Sphere News Now
Navies of 2 Koreas Clash on Border
posted: 38 DAYS 9 HOURS AGOcomments: 0
filed under: North Korea, World News
After 50 Years, Korean Families Reunite
posted: 83 DAYS 1 HOUR AGOcomments: 0
filed under: North Korea, World News
South Korea Leader, Nobel Winner Buried
posted: 117 DAYS 7 HOURS AGOcomments: 0
filed under: North Korea, World News
Details Emerge on Journalists' Ordeal
posted: 134 DAYS AGOcomments: 0
filed under: North Korea, World News
Journalists Make Emotional Return to US
posted: 135 DAYS 1 HOUR AGOcomments: 0
filed under: North Korea, World News
N. Korea Says It's Open to Nuke Talks
posted: 144 DAYS 10 HOURS AGOcomments: 0
filed under: North Korea, World News
More World News
Thieves stole the notorious sign bearing the cynical Nazi slogan "Work Sets You Free" from the entrance to the former Auschwitz death camp on Friday, cutting through rows of barbed wire and metal bars before making their escape through the snow. Read More
Dr. Mark Weinberger had a one-size-fits all practice, lawyers say. Read More
COPENHAGEN (AP) _ President Barack Obama said the United States, China and several other countries reached an "unprecedented breakthrough" Friday to curb greenhouse gas emissions _ including a mechanism to verify compliance _ after a frenzied day of diplomacy at the U.N. climate talks. The agreement, which also includes the developing nations of India, South Africa and Brazil, requires each country to list the actions they will take to cut global warming pollution by specific amounts, a senior Obama administration official said. The official described the deal on the condition of anonymity because specific details had not been announced. Read More
Surgeons have successfully removed four sewing needles that were inside the lung and close to the heart of a Brazilian toddler. They were allegedly put there by his stepfather during a series of bizarre rituals. Read More
Iranian forces crossed into Iraq and seized an oil well just over the two countries' disputed border, Iraq's government said Friday, prompting a protest from Baghdad and providing a dramatic display of the sometimes tenuous relations between the wary allies. Read More
President Barack Obama declared Friday a "meaningful and unprecedented breakthrough" had been reached among the U.S., China and three other countries on a global effort to curb climate change but said much work was still be needed to reach a legally binding treaty. Read More
Surgeons have removed 4 needles from inside a Brazilian boy; operation called a success. Read More
A New Jersey man made an emotional plea Friday for Brazilian authorities to let him take his son home in a custody fight that is expanding into a political tussle and testing the limits of an international child abduction treaty. Read More
Police found six bullet-ridden, decomposing bodies Friday near a highway leading to a Mexican resort on the Gulf of California. Read More
The top U.S. military officer quizzed Iraqi leaders Friday about the influence and motives of next-door Iran as national elections approach, but made no promises when his hosts asked for surveillance equipment and other help to keep an eye on their neighbors. Read More
Facing huge pressure to reform, President Hamid Karzai is submitting a Cabinet lineup to Parliament on Saturday that keeps U.S. favorites in several posts critical to the war and reconstruction _ a nod to American demands for trusted hands to help manage the conflict. Read More
A suicide attacker set off a powerful bomb outside a mosque in northwestern Pakistan just after police officers had finished their Friday prayers, killing 10 people. The attack was the second against a mosque used by security forces in two weeks. Read More
The United States and four other countries, including China, have reached a climate agreement that includes a way to verify reductions of heat-trapping gases. A senior administration official says the agreement between the countries also requires each country to list the actions they will take to cut global warming pollution by specific amounts. The deal reiterates a goal set earlier this year on long-term emissions cuts and provides a mechanism to be help poor countries prepare for climate change. Read More
After decades of military rule, coups and strong-armed elections, Africa's most populous nation now finds itself with a seriously ill, and absent, president. Read More
The Copenhagen climate conference "failed" long before it even opened. It may not "succeed" until long after it ends. For the moment, then, negotiators must satisfy themselves with something in between, an "outcome," one whose shape Thursday was in the hands of the United States and China. Read More
Sonia Sotomayor said Friday that she is touched by the outpouring of public support as the first Hispanic justice on the U.S. Supreme Court but disappointed with the commercialization of her image and, at times, startled by her own celebrity. Read More
Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offered to swap Israeli territory near the Gaza Strip and West Bank in exchange for settlement blocs in the West Bank, the Haaretz newspaper reported Thursday, in the most detailed account of the former Israeli leader's proposed peace offer to the Palestinians. Read More
Rescue workers searched the stormy waters off Lebanon on Friday after a cargo ship sank, killing at least 11 people and leaving dozens missing. Read More
Dominica's Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, who has led his small Caribbean country into an alliance with Hugo Chavez, is betting that Friday's early general elections will keep his Labor Party in power for another five years. Read More
Tiger Woods is in no way linked to the drug-related criminal charges brought against a Canadian sports doctor who treated the superstar golfer, the doctor's lawyer said Friday. Read More
Sports
- Tag Heuer to drop Tiger Woods from US campaigns
- Woods wins PGA Tour player of the year
- Ryder Cup captain Pavin sees strong Woods return
- Phelps helps Americans dominate at Duel in Pool
- NFL fines Incognito $50,000
Money
- Tech stocks pull market out of 3-day slide
- Jury awards BP workers $100 million in lawsuit
- GM to end Saab brand after talks with buyer fail
- Mullaly says Ford plans to speed up debt repayment
- Google fined $14,300 a day in France over books
Technology
- 'Let's Enhance' Computer Zoom Mashup, Worst Web Security Failures of 2009
- NFL Player's Death Eerily Predicted Hours Before By Fake Twitter Account
- Google, NASA Bring New Monitoring Methods to Climate Change Debate
- Tracking U.S. Enemies? There's an App for That, Says Raytheon
- Celery Makes Twitter Nice and Digestible, Especially For Grandma
Health
- New CDC estimate: 1 in 110 children have autism
- WHO to send swine flu vaccine to poor countries
- Swine flu vaccine now plentiful in half the states
- Weak H1N1 Vaccine for Kids Recalled
- Patients Meet Donors From Kidney Swap
Entertainment
- Gisele Bundchen Names Baby Boy
- 'Dance Crew' Judge Shane Sparks Arrested for Child Molestation
- Gaffes, Awkwardness Rule TV This Week
- Gosselin Divorce Final ... Finally
- Jude Law Says He Has 3 Kids. Really?
Politics Daily
More News
- Obama: First-step deal on climate reached
- Storm emergency declared in Virginia
- FBI: Arrest in case of missing pilot
- 'Imprudent spending' at Postal Service
- NASA pic shows liquid on Saturn moon
- More Stories
- Major Storm Bears Down on Mid-Atlantic
- Obama Hails Climate Deal "Breakthrough"
- Pesky Frogs Hide in Alaska Christmas Trees
- Needle-Ridden Brazilian Boy in Surgery
- Gallery: Year in Politics
- More Stories





