A remote-controlled bomb exploded in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing six members of a family, including four children, authorities and relatives said.

Legislators irked for months over Gov. Mark Sanford’s summertime vanishing act and his tearful revelation that he was in Argentina for a rendezvous with his lover plan to start debating a measure Tuesday that ultimately would remove him from office.

Global warming cannot be reversed unless the United States and China commit to meaningful cuts in their greenhouse gas emissions, the EU said Tuesday.

The beheaded bodies of a police officer and a bailiff have been found in a volatile province in Russia’s North Caucasus, officials said Tuesday.

Solidarity founder Lech Walesa is suing Polish President Lech Kaczynski for damages in a Warsaw court for having called Walesa a communist-era agent.

Iran is ready to exchange its low-enriched uranium with a higher enriched material, but only on its own soil, to guarantee the West follows through with promises to give the fuel, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.

World stock markets fell Tuesday following big gains on Monday, with China’s main index posting its biggest drop in three months after the country’s central bank warned commercial banks to control their lending.

Virginia is buying back 359 commercial crab licenses to ease pressure on the Chesapeake Bay’s blue crab population.

Richmond police today are investigating the robbery of a West Broad Street insurance agency.

Rob Bironas kicked a 53-yard field goal with less than a minute remaining and the Tennessee Titans beat the Houston Texans 20-17 Monday night for their fourth straight victory after an 0-6 start.

A 32-year-old Richmond, Va., man has been arrested after authorities said he enticed a 12-year-old girl to run away and planned to sexually assault her and post nude pictures on the Internet. Daniel O’Brien of pleaded not guilty today to attempted kidnapping and child endangerment. He was ordered held on $50,000 cash bail. Prosecutors say the girl’s parents became suspicious Friday when she filled her backpack with extra clothes and money. A check of their computer revealed the suspect had offered to help the girl run away while chatting with her through a wish-maker’s Web site.

Richmond City Council tonight approved a revised plan that breaks a two-year stalemate over school construction and sets the stage for a new Huguenot High School—the city’s first new high school in more than 40 years. Mayor Dwight C. Jones requested the council’s expedited vote, even though the plan is $26 million more expensive than the nearly $150 million allocated.

Richmond City Council voted 8-1 tonight to designate Union Hill as an Old and Historic District. Councilwoman Cynthia I. Newbille, who represents the city’s East End, recommended the designation even though speakers at a public hearing were divided over the proposal. Newbille said the designation is an important tool to help protect historic neighborhoods.

The results stayed the same but the turnout grew after a certification of the Nov. 3 elections by the State Board of Elections yesterday. A total of 2,168,574 Virginians voted, or 43.76 percent of the registered voters. Early reports showed the turnout at only about 40 percent. The turnout was slightly less than the 45 percent in 2005, but, because more people are registered, about 168,000 more people voted than four years ago.

A Chesterfield County judge today set a Feb. 23 hearing for defense arguments on why former gang member Detavis J. King should get a new trial in the 2007 slaying of Chesterfield teenager Ryan Matko. Circuit Judge Frederick G. Rockwell III granted defense attorney Greg Sheldon’s request that King’s sentencing hearing, scheduled for today, be continued at least until the February hearing, and probably longer.