5.4 temblor hits country today
ERCIS, Turkey — Rain and snow today compounded difficulties for thousands rendered homeless in the powerful earthquake that hit eastern Tur...
Death toll is still rising in Turkey
ERCIS, Turkey — Two teachers and a university student were rescued from ruined buildings in eastern Turkey today, three days after a ...
A 2-week-old baby girl is pulled alive from the rubble of an apartment building in Ercis, Turkey, today, nearly 48 hours after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake toppled some 2,...
ERCIS, Turkey — Four people were pulled alive from the rubble today when one managed to call for help on his cell phone after a 7.2-magnitude quake leveled buildings and...
BANGKOK — The threat that floodwaters will inundate Thailand’s capital could ease by early November as record-high levels in the river carrying torrents of water downstr...
PARIS — Proud papa Nicolas Sarkozy, the first French president to have a baby in office, says he and wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy feel “a very profound happiness” over the b...
EU launches navigation system
BRUSSELS — A Russian rocket launched the first two satellites of the European Union’s Galileo navigation system today after years of waiting...
BRUSSELS — NATO’s governing body is meeting today to decide when and how to end the seven-month bombing campaign in Libya, a military operation whose success has helped ...
U.N. wants to examine death
TRIPOLI, Libya — The burial of slain leader Moammar Gadhafi has been delayed until the circumstances of his death can be further examined and ...
VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday named an Italian prelate who has served in Vatican diplomatic missions in Iraq, Britain and Nigeria as the new papal ambass...
