Kosovo faces more trouble
MITROVICA, Kosovo — Kosovo’s NATO-led peacekeepers confronted crowds of angry Serbs today as they tried to remove Serb roadblocks in the volatil...
Prisoner deal agreed upon
TEL NOF AIR BASE, Israel — Looking thin, weary and dazed, an Israeli soldier returned home today from more than five years of captivity in the G...
DUBLIN — M’lord, I can see your bald patch.
Hundreds of Ireland’s judges abandoned their wigs for the first time in centuries after the Irish Courts Service ended the ru...
Confusion reigns among residents
BANGKOK — Fear and confusion gripped Bangkok today as residents grappled with mixed messages over whether Thailand’s worst floods in deca...
COLOGNE, Germany — Take a book, leave a book. In the birthplace of the printing press, public bookshelves are popping up across the nation on street corners, city square...
KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S. military investigators have concluded that the Chinook helicopter crash in Afghanistan that killed 30 U.S. troops in August was caused by an in...
BANGKOK — Thailand is counting the multibillion dollar cost of nationwide flooding that has killed nearly 270 people and may yet cause more havoc as waters threaten to e...
CAIRO — Tens of thousands of Egyptians chanted overnight and early today against the ruling military council during a massive funeral procession for 17 Christian protest...
Karman 1st Arab woman to win
OSLO, Norway — Africa’s first democratically elected female president, a Liberian peace activist and a woman who stood up to Yemen’s authorit...
STOCKHOLM — Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman won the 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry today for his discovery of quasicrystals, a mosaiclike chemical structure that resea...
