LONDON — Troops, teachers and students are getting free tickets to fill prime seats that weren’t filled at some Olympic venues on the first full day of competition Satur...
Music, history pay tribute to island nation, athletes
LONDON — Britain opened its Olympics with a royal entrance like no other.
London greeted the world in a celebration ...
Pair credited with toppling communism
GDANSK, Poland — Polish officials unveiled a statue of former President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II on Saturday, honoring tw...
BEIRUT — A suicide bomber struck the National Security building in the Syrian capital today, killing the defense minister and President Bashar Assad’s brother-in-law — t...
Violent strain has killed hundreds
HANOI, Vietnam — Tran Minh Giang has spent more than a third of his young life in a Hanoi hospital, and it could be many months more be...
BEIJING — China's auto sales rose 9 percent in June despite a slowing economy as buyers rushed to beat possible limits on car registrations aimed at curbing traffic.
Aut...
PARIS — An armed man who took hostages this morning at a school complex south of Paris released them all unhurt and was taken into police custody, authorities said.
The ...
PAMPLONA, Spain — A Red Cross spokesman says at least two people have been gored as thousands of daredevil runners charged ahead of six fighting bulls through the street...
Move boosts defense ties
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Obama administration on Saturday declared Afghanistan the United States’ newest “major non-NATO ally,” an action designe...
TRIPOLI, Libya — Jubilant Libyan voters marked a major step toward democracy after decades of erratic one-man rule, casting their ballots Saturday in the first parliamen...
