PHOENIX AZ - A 9-year-old boy looking for help after his mother crashed their van in the southern Arizona desert was rescued by a man entering the U.S. illegally, who stayed with him until help arrived the next day, an official said.

NEW YORK (CNN) -- President Bush is building his legacy,adding another unfortunate line of hollow bravado to his rhetoricalrepertoire. To "Mission accomplished," "Bring it on," "Wanted: Dead oralive," and of course, "I earned ... political capital,...

"KAYAR, Senegal Ale Nodye, the son and grandson of fishermen in this northern Senegalese village, said that for the past six years he netted barely enough fish to buy fuel for his boat. So he jumped at the chance for a new beginning. He volunteered to ...

Many are concerned about "illegals" lately. Me too. Drivers who nudge the posted speed up, sometimes close to three digits, are by no means a minority. How about people who rip pages from directories at public telephones, scam the vulnerable elderly, or...

The world's tiger population may have halved in the past quarter of a century, conservationists warn.

The new film Paraiso Travel from Colombia shows the painful journeys of undocumented aliens with haunting authenticity

All the toxins, less addictive: "I'm convinced that there's very little we can do on the toxicant side," Zeller said. "But imagine a world, however many decades from now, in which the cigarette remains as deadly and toxic as it...

The UK's treatment of asylum seekers falls seriously below the standards of a civilised country, says a report.

Story: Researchers have mapped out 650,000 common, single-letter genetic variations in 938 individuals from 51 populations. They then used that information to trace the migration of the first modern humans -- lending support to the theory that the first ...

A midwife has beaten one-in-200-million odds by giving birth to identical triplets.