ROME — Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu, the outspoken beauty who served as South Vietnam’s unofficial first lady early in the Vietnam War and earned the nickname “Dragon Lady,” died...
LONDON — New flags went up, cleaning crews scrubbed down, police checked for explosives and a handful of die-hard fans were already camping out. Welcome to Westminster A...
Chernobyl blast was 25 years ago
KIEV, Ukraine — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called on the international community to work out unified guidelines to prevent acciden...
TOKYO — Angry farmers brought two cows to Tokyo, shouting and punching the air today in a protest to demand compensation for products contaminated by radiation spewing f...
BEIRUT — Gunfire reverberated today in the southern Syrian city of Daraa where the dead still lay unclaimed in the streets a day after a brutal government crackdown on t...
TRIPOLI, Libya — NATO airstrikes targeted the center of Moammar Gadhafi’s seat of power early today, destroying a library and office in his compound and badly damaging a...
SINGAPORE — Oil prices rose to near $113 a barrel today in Asia after Libyan rebels said they won’t produce crude for at least a month as they repair fields damaged in f...
Royals now mega-celebrities
LONDON — Poor Kate Middleton. She’s not just marrying a future king. She’s marrying all of us.
Once upon a time, British subjects gazed upon t...
More than 450 set free
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Taliban militants dug a lengthy tunnel underground and into the main jail in Kandahar city and whisked out more than 450 pr...
BEIRUT — Witnesses say the death toll has risen to six as Syrian security forces fire on thousands of people taking part in funeral processions following the deadliest d...
