BEIRUT — Arab League observers were due to arrive today in Syria in an attempt to ensure the government’s compliance with demands to end a nine-month crackdown on dissen...
Power grows in N. Korea
PYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korea identified Kim Jong Il’s son as head of a top ruling party body today, a post that gives him authority over p...
PARIS — France took a costly and unprecedented leap Friday in offering to pay for 30,000 women to have their breast implants removed because of mounting fears the produc...
LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II’s husband has undergone surgery for a blocked coronary artery, British royal officials said Friday.
Buckingham Palace said Prince Philip, 90,...
North Korea is behind Kim Jong Un
PYONGYANG, North Korea — Even as millions of North Koreans mourned Kim Jong Il in towns, villages and cities across the country today, a...
At least 40 die in blasts
DAMASCUS, Syria — Twin suicide car bomb blasts ripped through an upscale Damascus district today, targeting heavily guarded intelligence buildin...
KABUL, Afghanistan — An investigation into a NATO attack that killed 24 Pakistani troops last month near the Afghan border has concluded that a combination of mistrust a...
ILIGAN, Philippines — A southern Philippine area devastated by flash floods that killed more than 1,000 people looks like it was hit by a tsunami, a U.N. official said t...
ILIGAN, Philippines — The government shipped more than 400 coffins to two flood-stricken cities in the southern Philippines today as the death toll neared 1,000 and Pres...
World wary about future
PYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korea announced the death of supreme leader Kim Jong Il and urged its people to rally behind his young son and heir...
