JERUSALEM — Ariel Sharon, the hard-charging Israeli general and prime minister who was admired and hated for his battlefield exploits and ambitions to reshape the Middle...
Tourists snap pictures Wednesday of this ice palace at the Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival in Harbin, China. The festival started Sunday and runs fo...
PYONGYANG, North Korea — Dennis Rodman apologized today for comments he made in North Korea about a detained American missionary, saying he had been drinking and was und...
PYONGYANG, North Korea — Dennis Rodman sang “Happy Birthday” to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un before leading a squad of former NBA stars in a game at a Pyongyang stadi...
BEIJING — China will allow the creation of up to five privately financed banks this year to support economic growth by gradually opening the state-run industry, the coun...
LONDON — Honor, She Got.
Hollywood star Angela Lansbury, best known as the clue-collecting supersleuth in the television series “Murder, She Wrote,” has been made a Dame...
They had been on loan in U.S. for 2 decades
WARSAW, Poland — Half of a historic Auschwitz-Birkenau barracks that was on loan to the U.S. has been returned to Poland after...
Blasts kill more than 30
MOSCOW — A suicide bomber killed 14 people aboard an electric bus in the southern Russian city of Volgograd during the morning rush hour today, a...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The U.S. Coast Guard was searching Sunday for a Canadian passenger who jumped off a Royal Caribbean Cruises ship as it motored off a remote Puert...
BEIJING — More than 8 million acres of China’s farmland is too polluted with heavy metals and other chemicals to use for growing food, a Cabinet official said today, hig...
