Remember Newt Gingrich calling Mitt Romney a liar? Michele Bachmann saying Romney's unelectable? Rick Santorum calling Romney "the worst Republican in the country" to run against Obama?

The idled San Onofre nuclear power plant is facing new scrutiny from Congress as the utility that operates it moves closer to proposing a fix to get the twin reactors back in service.

First came complaints that the winner of the Miss World Fiji pageant looked too Western to represent her country. Then her age came under scrutiny. And now, with the 16-year-old's crown lost, one of the judges says the contest was rigged from the start.

In the middle of the night, Tonya Thomas' neighbors awoke to the sound of a gunshot and moments later heard a knock on their door.

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic, 70, appeared on Wednesday for his genocide trial looking confident, flashing a thumbs-up and clapping his hands as he entered the courtroom. He is charged with commanding the 1995 massacre of up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica and could be imprisoned for life if found guilty by judges at the U.N. tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. (Reporting By Anthony Deutsch and Ivana Sekularac)

After an improbable Nebraska primary victory, state Sen. Deb Fischer has emerged from relative obscurity to take the mantle as one of the GOP's best hopes for picking up a U.S. Senate seat — though she'll have to beat a famous Democratic politician to do it — popular former Sen. Bob Kerrey.

Debt-stricken Greece on Wednesday faced the prospect of a second election in less than two months after failing to form a government, stoking the eurozone crisis even as France and Germany pledged support and perhaps help for growth.

After an improbable Nebraska primary victory, state Sen. Deb Fischer has emerged from relative obscurity to take the mantle as one of the GOP's best hopes for picking up a U.S. Senate seat — though she'll have to beat a famous Democratic politician to do it — popular former Sen. Bob Kerrey.