Taliban claims responsibility
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai's half brother, the most powerful man in southern Afghanistan and a lightning rod for critici...
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s decision to suspend $800 million in aid to Pakistan’s military signals a tougher U.S. line with a critical, but sometimes unrelia...
Action pushed to stop attacks
BAGHDAD — The U.S. will not “walk away” from the challenge of Iran’s stepped-up arming of Iraqi insurgents who are targeting and killing Ame...
BEIJING — The United States is spending too much on its military in light of its recent economic troubles, China’s top general said today while playing down his country’...
BEIJING — China today dismissed as rumor reports that retired President Jiang Zemin, who led the country through massive changes after the crushing of the 1989 Tiananmen...
Man survives 2 shots to chest
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A young couple who took a dip in a river in a remote part of Papua New Guinea are recovering from a harrowing atta...
Conservatives face discontent
LONDON — British teachers and public service workers swapped classrooms and offices for picket lines today as hundreds of thousands walked o...
She prepares for challenges
PARIS — Christine Lagarde has traveled tirelessly to save the euro and blazed a trail for women from Chicago to Paris in halls of power long d...
BEIJING — China has opened the world's longest cross-sea bridge.
The Jiaozhou Bay bridge is 26 miles long and links China's eastern port city of Qingdao to an offshore i...
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican, whose communications problems are no secret, is taking a leap into the world of new media next week with the launch of a news information por...
