Disaster killed 230,000 people
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — Crying onlookers took part in beachside memorials and religious services across Asia today to mark the 10th anniver...
Strict rules enforced
BEIRUT — The gunmen came to the all-girls’ elementary school in the Iraqi city of Fallujah at midday with a special delivery: piles of long black ro...
Service restored after about 10 hours
SEOUL, South Korea — Key North Korean websites were back online today after a nearly 10-hour shutdown that followed a U.S. vow to re...
MANAMA, Bahrain — The U.S. Navy says one of its helicopters crash-landed during training at Camp Buehring in Kuwait and that the six-member crew survived, with some sust...
Pope lists 15 Curia ailments
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis issued a blistering critique today of the Vatican bureaucracy that serves him, denouncing how some people lust fo...
Seven siblings, one niece slain
SYDNEY — An Australian woman was arrested in the killings of eight children, seven of whom are believed to be her own, police said Saturda...
Pakistan shows zero-tolerance
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan executed two convicted terrorists Friday, the first of 400 militants headed to the hangman’s noose amid a government cr...
ISLAMABAD — Pakistani warplanes and ground forces killed at least 77 militants in a northwestern tribal region near the Afghan border, officials said today, days after T...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — The Taliban massacre that killed 148 people, mostly children, at a military-run school in northwestern Pakistan left a scene of heart-wrenching deva...
Most victims were students
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Taliban gunmen stormed a military-run school in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar today, killing at least 126 pe...
