The head of Iran's soccer federation issued a public apology and a member of his staff resigned after the federation mistakenly sent a New Year's greeting to its counterpart in Israel, Iranian officials announced Sunday.Kaffashian said Iran's soccer league routinely sends New Year's greetings to all members of FIFA, the sport's global federation, except for Israel. Iran does not recognize Israel, which it dismisses as the "Zionist entity," and the two countries' teams do not meet in international competitions

American officials put a warning on the embassy's website quoting the Indonesian island's governor as saying: "There is an indication of an attack to Bali tonight."The alert comes six months after twin suicide blasts killed seven people at luxury hotels in the capital Jakarta.
In a message distributed by the local tourist board, Bali Governor's I Made Mangku Pastika called on people to be alert, but gave no details about the nature of any attack.
"There is an indication of an attack to Bali tonight, but please don't panic, but put your security system to full alert," he warned.

The FBI released files it collected over the past 17 years on Michael Jackson on Tuesday, most of them from the federal agency's support of the California investigations of child molestation allegations against the entertainer.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano conceded Monday that airline security failed in allowing a Nigerian on a terror watch list and allegedly armed with explosives onto a Detroit-bound flight, a turnaround from her declaration a day day earlier that "the system worked."

WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Some 125 pilot whales died in New Zealand after stranding on the beach over the weekend -- but vacationers and conservation workers Sunday managed to coax 43 others back out to sea.

At least 10 Afghan civilians, including eight schoolchildren, have been killed by Western forces in the country, President Hamid Karzai has said. Mr Karzai said the deaths occurred during an air strike in the eastern Kunar province two days ago.

This year children will have a range of hi-tech options when it comes to following the progress of Santa on Christmas Eve.The North American Aerospace Defense Command (Norad) has been tracking Santa for over 50 years.

Yessica Maher of Los Angeles, California, feels let down. She had wanted to get the H1N1 vaccine for herself and her children, but that's proving to be difficult.

Two Americans and an Israeli were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for painstakingly mapping out the thousands of atoms that make up the ribosome -- work that paves the way for new antibiotics.

A suicide attack at the offices of the World Food Program in Islamabad killed five employees and wounded several others Monday, an agency official said.Four Pakistani women and an Iraqi national died at the U.N. humanitarian agency, according to authorities.

One day after announcing it was 99.9 percent certain to shut its Chinese search engine, Google.cn, search giant Google may have pulled the plug on censorship in the country.