TOKYO — For decades, the faded photograph of a baby Japanese girl and a child's colorful drawing hung on a wall in the home of Franklin Hobbs III in America.
As a 21-yea...
Rescuers search for survivors
MENTAWAI ISLANDS, Indonesia — Rescuers searching islands ravaged by a tsunami off western Indonesia raised the death toll to 343 today as mo...
ST. MARC, Haiti — At least 135 people have died in a suspected cholera outbreak, and aid groups are rushing in medicine and other supplies today to combat Haiti's deadli...
PARIS (AP) — Protesters blockaded Marseille's airport, Lady Gaga canceled concerts in Paris and rioting youths attacked police in Lyon on Thursday ahead of a tense Senat...
VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI named 24 new cardinals Wednesday, putting his mark on the body that will elect his successor and giving a boost to Italian hopes to rega...
COPIAPO, Chile — Chilean officials are trying to decide what to do with the three rescue capsules built specially to bring out the 33 miners who were trapped a half-mile...
Rescued miners return to living impoverished lives
COPIAPO, Chile — Carlos Bugueno is out of the collapsed mine but still lives in close quarters, sharing his small wood-...
YUZHOU, China — Hopes were fading today for the remaining seven Chinese miners still missing after a deadly gas leak over the weekend that left 30 dead.
The State Admini...
BEIJING — Rescuers battled dangerous levels of gas and the risk of falling coal as they worked to free 17 miners after an explosion at a coal mine in central China early...
Its use for rail travel still a few years off
GENEVA — A massive drilling machine called Sissi today was to chew through the last few inches of rock in the way of the cre...
