Call it udder shock. A South Carolina woman who heard a giant splash in her backyard discovered a 650-pound cow had fallen into her swimming pool.

Seismologists said Tuesday an earthquake struck off Canada's Pacific coast province of British Columbia.

Seattle police say a man who thought he was a ninja was impaled on a metal fence when he tried to leap over it.

The aunt of a 5-year-old girl whose body was found off a rural North Carolina road said Tuesday that she had a hard time letting the girl live temporarily at her mother's house because she believed the woman neglected her children.

Leaders of the European Union and Russia were holding a summit Wednesday on energy security, climate change, trade and human rights — with both sides hoping the talks would help patch up battered relations.

Honduran lawmakers will not decide whether to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya until after upcoming presidential elections, the congressional leader said Tuesday, a decision that could undermine international support for the vote.

U.S. President Barack Obama urged a reluctant China on Thursday to let its yuan currency rise in value at a summit where strains over trade between the two giants crept into proclamations of goodwill.

A CNN correspondent said Monday she was detained by Chinese security guards in Shanghai for two hours for displaying a T-shirt on camera depicting U.S. President Barack Obama as Mao Zedong.

A Russian icebreaker carrying over 100 tourists, scientists and journalists on a cruise around Antarctica was struggling to free itself from sea ice but was not in any danger, a shipping company said Tuesday.

Rockets slammed into a market northeast of Kabul on Monday, killing 12 civilians but missing their presumed target: a meeting between France's top general in Afghanistan and dozens of tribal elders and senior local officials.