CAIRO — The Arab League voted Saturday to suspend Syria in four days and warned it could face sanctions if it does not end its bloody crackdown against anti-government p...
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican said Thursday that Pope Benedict XVI is looking into visiting Cuba and Mexico next spring, traveling to a region where about half of the world...
ROME — With markets tumbling around the globe, Italy’s president promised emphatically Wednesday that Silvio Berlusconi will step down soon as premier and lavished honor...
Journalists, aid workers trapped
VAN, Turkey — Rescue workers with pickaxes and earth-movers searched today for survivors of an earthquake that leveled a downtown hotel i...
Caution used on painkillers
LONDON — In Britain, the popular U.S. painkiller OxyContin is considered similar to morphine and used sparingly. Vicodin isn’t even licensed. ...
BANGKOK — Floodwaters from Thailand’s flood-ravaged central heartland pushed farther into Bangkok today, as residents of long-submerged provinces north of the capital st...
A worker stands on one of the supporting columns for the Jiaxing-Shaoxing bridge in eastern China. Builders claim it will be the world’s longest bridge of its type with ...
Rujm al-Hiri debate revived
RUJM AL-HIRI, Golan Heights — A newly proposed solution to an ancient enigma is reviving debate about the nature of a mysterious prehistoric s...
He drank rain to stay alive
ERCIS, Turkey — A 13-year-old boy was pulled from a collapsed building without injury today, five days after Turkey’s powerful earthquake stru...
Debt pact gives boost to markets
BRUSSELS — European leaders clinched a deal today they hope will mark a turning point in their two-year debt crisis, agreeing after a nig...
