DHARMSALA, India – The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, was suffering from exhaustion and has canceled two planned international trips to undergo medical tests, his office said Wednesday. The 73-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner had been “experiencing some discomfort in the past couple of days,” a statement from his …

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. – Authorities in Colorado confirm that wreckage spotted by a hiker in the Rocky Mountains was that of a plane carrying a Texas family that never returned home. Summit County sheriff’s officials say Thomas Paul Jacomini Jr. was piloting the four-seater Cessna 182 when it left Steamboat …

NEW YORK – The Empire State Building is shining with Olympic spirit: Each of its top four sides are being lit with the different colors of 66 competing countries. The Empire State Building’s manager says it is the first time the iconic building has split the tower’s sides with four …

A South African teenager has endured his third potentially lethal snake bite and is recovering in a hospital, according to the Independent Online. Bokamosho Nthelang, 15, who was bitten by a deadly Cape cobra this time, has been bitten twice before, once by a cobra and once by a puffadder, …

An American pastor who was sentenced to more than three years in Russian prison on Monday for smuggling hunting ammunition into Russia is confident that “what’s happening to him is part of God’s plan,” his lawyer told FOXNews.com. Phillip Miles, pastor of the Christ Community Church in Conway, S.C., was …

WASHINGTON – Louisiana Sen. David Vitter may be called to testify in the upcoming trial of a woman accused of running a high-end Washington prostitution ring. The Republican senator was identified Monday as one of several possible witnesses as jury selection began in the racketeering and money laundering case against …

JERUSALEM – Former President Jimmy Carter brokered the first Israeli-Arab peace deal, but he’s getting a cool reception in Israel during his latest visit to the Mideast. Israeli leaders are shunning the globe-trotting peacemaker for planning to meet with Khaled Mashaal, the head of Israel’s archenemy Hamas, and comparing the …

WASHINGTON – Democratic efforts to let bankruptcy judges rewrite mortgages for strapped borrowers won’t make it through Congress this year, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee said Tuesday. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., told The Associated Press in an interview that the only thing lawmakers can do to get …

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A rocket carrying telecommunications equipment has launched into space. An Atlas 5 rocket carrying the equipment lifted off at 4:12 p.m. Monday and was the heaviest payload ever launched aboard an Atlas 5 rocket. The equipment will help with the operation of cell phones and other …

ATLANTA – Olympic swimmer Eric Shanteau is heading to Beijing with a startling diagnosis: He has cancer. In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, Shanteau said he learned just a week before the Olympic trials in Omaha, Neb., that he has testicular cancer. His doctors cleared him to compete …