WARSAW, Poland — Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich — a recent convert to Catholicism — is in Poland promoting a documentary he co-produced on Pope John Paul II's r...
NADAHAN VILLAGE, Afghanistan — A suicide bomb ripped through a wedding party for a family with ties to police in the Taliban's heartland in Afghanistan, killing at least...
KABUL, Afghanistan — Two more American troops were killed in Afghanistan today, the military said, extending a spike of bloodshed into a second day and pushing the NATO ...
LONDON— Jack Harrison, who survived the Great Escape plot by Allied prisoners in a German prison in World War II, has died at age 97, his family said.
Harrison died Frid...
LIMA, Peru — Dutchman Joran Van der Sloot, long the prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of a U.S. teen in Aruba, confessed to killing a young Peruvian woman in his L...
Tensions escalate in Gaza blockade
JERUSALEM — Israeli naval forces shot and killed four men wearing wet suits in the waters off the coast of Gaza today, and a militant g...
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's brother-in-law was promoted and a premier who apologized for a currency debacle was replaced today in a rare parli...
ATHENS, Greece — When it comes to overspending, Greece gets the gold medal.
Governments in the Greek capital of Athens haven't balanced a budget in nearly 40 years, and ...
Taxi driver kills 10 in London
LONDON — A taxi driver killed 10 victims in a single hour during a shooting rampage in rural England in which he murdered 12 people and wou...
CAIRO — The Irish Nobel Peace Prize laureate on an aid ship heading to Gaza says the activists on board will not resist Israeli soldiers if they board the vessel.
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