The world knows her as the daring nanny who, clutching a 2-year-old boy, pushed past the havoc in a terrorized Mumbai house and risked her life to keep the toddler safe. But Sandra Samuel sees no heroism in her actions. "Even today, I am thinking I should have sent the baby and done something for the rabbi and his wife," who were killed in the attack, she tells CNN.

A missing envelope containing about 130 ballots has stalled the recount in Minnesota's U.S. Senate race between incumbent Republican Sen. Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken.

The three alleged abusers of a 17-year-old teen, who escaped captivity with a shackle on his ankle, tortured him with a bat, knife and belt, court documents released Thursday contend.

A Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to 45 years in prison in a deadly bank robbery plot -- described by the judge in the case as "incredibly bizarre" -- in which a pizza deliveryman died when a bomb affixed to his neck exploded.

The Pentagon is set to conduct the 13th and most realistic test of its missile shield system to date, officials told CNN.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday that Canada's governor general has allowed him to suspend Parliament.

A cruise ship carrying 122 people was stranded Thursday on the coast of Antarctica after striking ice, officials said, officials said.

Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot, Slobodan Milosevic. They are household names, infamous for masterminding genocide. But who were the foot soldiers who did the dirty work? In many cases they were the friends, neighbors and co-workers of those they raped, slaughtered and buried alive. "The truth is that we all have the possibility for genocidal behavior," says Harvard psychiatrist Robert Lifton.

As Washington gears up for January's presidential inauguration with high-priced tickets to fancy affairs, one businessman is making sure that some of the less fortunate will have a chance to share in the festivities.

Former FBI agent John Connolly, whose fall from mob-buster to paid gangland flunky played out in a South Florida courtroom, broke his long silence today in a packed courtroom. Connolly denied having any role in a 1982 mob hit, telling the family of slain businessman John Callahan: "It's heartbreaking to hear what happened to your father and to your husband. ... My heart is broken when I hear what you say."

Americans back Barack Obama's plan to move U.S. troops from Iraq to Afghanistan, a new national poll indicates.

It was a "genuine crime against humanity," said Richard Holbrooke, who thought that only a U.S.-led military intervention would stop the slaughter. After years of lobbying -- and a massacre of 8,000 men and boys -- he would be proved right.

"I'm angry at having presided over the first genocide of the 21st century," said Mukesh Kapila, a British doctor and former U.N. official. He was referring to what he considers the world's ineffective response to mass atrocities in Darfur, Sudan's western region. "What happened in Darfur would be classified as obscene," he told CNN's Christiane Amanpour. "It's a combination of a horror movie and a snuff movie."

Polls show that Americans overwhelmingly approve of Sen. Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, but will the founding fathers veto this popular addition to Barack Obama's "team of rivals"?

Iraq's presidency council Thursday approved the U.S.-Iraq security agreement -- the final step for the agreement to be ratified by the Iraqi government, a council spokesman said.

A newspaper ad for a Miami car dealership reads more like a coupon for bags of potato chips: "Buy one, get two!" "The first thing people think when they come in is, 'It's a fake ad. It's a normal car dealer ad. It's a gimmick.' But it's not," said Ali Ahmed, sales manager at Rob Lambdin's University Dodge in Miami. The ad speaks to the desperation of dealers as automakers beg for bailout money to survive a huge sales slump.

The estranged brother-in-law of singer and actress Jennifer Hudson killed her relatives in a jealous rage because he thought his wife was seeing another man, a prosecutor said Wednesday at a hearing in which bail was denied.

The Mumbai attacks remind the world that the intertwined problems of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan will be the most extreme foreign policy challenge that President Obama will face as he assumes office.

Brad Pitt has plenty on his plate. The Oscar-nominated actor and producer stars in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons," which opens nationwide on Christmas Day.

The music business is ready to celebrate.