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The former commander of Yemen's air force has refused to step down after he was fired as part of a major military shakeup, two defense ministry officials said Saturday.

Three people missing after a Navy fighter hit apartment buildings in Virginia Beach have been accounted for. Officials are still checking under wreckage to make sure there are no casualties.

Thomas Kinkade, one of the most popular artists in America, has died at his California home, his family said.

Congressional investigators are accusing the General Services Administration of violating its employee gift limit with rewards of iPods, digital cameras and other electronics, just as a video emerged of a lavish conference that shows employees drinking and making jokes about wasteful spending.

More than 100 soldiers are trapped after an avalanche in the Siachen glacier, a Pakistani military official said Saturday.

Three people were killed and two were injured Friday in four shootings in north Tulsa, Oklahoma and police are searching for a lone suspected gunman, they said.

Mali state television announced late Friday that the leader of Mali's coup, Captain Amadou Sanogo, and the Economic Community of West African States have agreed to a plan under which the coup leaders will hand over power to the civilian government in exchange for the end of trade and diplomatic sanctions.

A large Southern California nuclear plant is out of commission indefinitely, and will remain so until there is a clear understanding of the causes of problems at two of its generators as well as an effective plan to address them, the nation's top nuclear regulator said Friday.

Ilyse Hogue says a consumer campaign caused the soda corporation to back out of a group that has pushed controversial voter-ID and "stand your ground" laws. In a post-Citizens United world it's a preview

The holder of one of three winning tickets in last week's record $656 million Mega Millions drawing has come forward to claim a share, a Kansas Lottery official said Friday.

Police said Friday that they believe they've found a gun that matches the serial number of a weapon purchased by One Goh, the man charged with fatally shooting seven people at Oikos University, a small school in Oakland, California.

Five people in southern China have been charged with intentional injury after illegally buying one of the kidneys of a teenage boy, who used the money at least in part for an iPhone and an iPad, according to state media.

The pilot of an F/A-18 dumped fuel moments before his plane slammed into an apartment complex in Virginia Beach on Friday -- then apologized to residents. There are no reports of deaths.

Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika, once hailed as a positive steward for the southern African country, has died after a heart attack, government officials said Friday.

A Marine Corps board has recommended that a politically active Marine sergeant who questioned President Barack Obama's authority be dismissed from service with an "other than honorable" discharge.

The Turkish government reported a record number of refugees fleeing Syrian military offensives across the border, just days before the Syrian government pledged to withdraw military forces from population centers.

Lisa Knepper says critics fearing Supreme Court will upend health care law demonstrate how a charge of "judicial activism" has become code for "decisions I don't like."

The same week that a report documented massive overspending at the General Services Administration, a video emerged Thursday showing an agency employee joking about the excess spending and saying he would never be investigated for it.

Fierce fighting is reported between men loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and rebels, raising questions about the potency of a U.N.-brokered peace plan.