BAUCHI, Nigeria (AP) — A suicide car bomber drove into a church compound in northern Nigeria Sunday and detonated his explosives as worshippers left an early morning service, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens more, officials and witnesse…

CAIRO (AP) — Tied to a bed, Nasr al-Sayed Hassan Nasr was tortured for days with electric shocks during his 2010 detention for membership in the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood — one of tens of thousands of political prisoners under Hosni Mubarak’s 29-…

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A commercial airliner crashed into a densely populated neighborhood in Nigeria’s largest city on Sunday, killing all 153 people on board and others on the ground in the worst air disaster in nearly two decades for the troubled n…

A look at recent major airline crashes in Nigeria:
—June 3: A Dana Air flight from Abuja to Lagos crashes killing all 153 people on board and an unknown number of people on the ground. Investigators have begun looking into the cau…

HOLLYWOOD, California (AP) — The gym had been cleared, and the wait for Manny Pacquiao had begun. He would spar six rounds this day to prepare for his fight with Timothy Bradley, and there was security at the door of the Wild Card to make sure no one…

DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) — Tiger Woods picked the right place to match Jack Nicklaus for career PGA Tour wins, and with a shot that even left Nicklaus amazed.
Two shots behind with three holes to play, his ball in an impossible spot behi…

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Only Jay Haas knows what it’s like to take the biggest lead in Principal Charity Classic history into the final round.
Haas handled the pressure of an equally large cushion just fine five years ago, so…