Number climbs at quick rate
LONDON — The number of adults worldwide with diabetes has more than doubled in three decades, jumping to an estimated 347 million, a new study...
BEIRUT — Hundreds of Syrians, some of them with gunshot wounds, streamed into neighboring Lebanon on Saturday in search of a refuge from the increasing violence in their...
Al-Qaida still key in country
ISLAMABAD — As the U.S. looks ahead to its phased withdrawal from Afghanistan, even more attention is being directed toward Pakistan, where ...
PARIS — France will pull its 4,000 troops out of Afghanistan on the same staggered timetable as the U.S. withdrawal, President Nicolas Sarkozy said today, helping pave t...
LONDON — Harry Potter’s adventures are going digital. Author J.K. Rowling announced today that her seven Potter novels will be sold as e-books starting in October — endi...
He welcomes U.S. withdrawal
KABUL, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai said today his nation's youth will stand up and defend the Afghanistan as the U.S. begins to pull ...
MOSCOW — A 9-year-old boy died of his injuries today, bringing the death toll in the crash of a Russian passenger plane that slammed into a highway in heavy fog to 45, o...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Michelle Obama says leadership isn’t limited to age or status in life and that the world is looking to its young people to be the next generation of ...
The wreckage of an airplane belonging to RusAir spans a highway near the city of Petrozavodsk, Russia, today. The passenger jet crashed in heavy fog and burst into flame...
KESENNUMA, Japan — More than a dozen ships heaved inland by Japan’s tsunami in March sit with red bellies and propellers exposed among the demolished houses of this once...
