U.S. naval base issue costs him
TOKYO — Embattled Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama resigned today to improve his party's chances in an election next month, after hi...
ANKARA, Turkey — Israel has agreed to release all Turks involved in the Gaza aid flotilla, Turkish officials announced today as they prepared to host a joyous welcome ho...
U.S. says missile kills him, family
WASHINGTON — Al-Qaida announced Monday its No. 3 official, Mustafa al-Yazid, had been killed along with members of his family — perhap...
TOKYO — Ambassador John Roos welcomed last week's U.S.-Japan accord to move a key Marine base to a less crowded part of Okinawa, but said there was still plenty of work ...
MONTREAL — Chris Haney, a co-creator of the popular Trivial Pursuit board game, died Monday at the age of 59.
Scott Abbott, who created Trivial Pursuit with Haney, said ...
Unregulated trade raises safety issues
BAGHDAD — A dozen fluffy white kittens with piercing blue eyes frolic in a wire cage, perched perilously atop a pen containing two ...
SEOUL, South Korea — China told South Korea today that it will not defend whoever it determines was responsible for the sinking of a South Korean warship that killed 46 ...
430 killed with Obama in office
KABUL, Afghanistan — The American military death toll in Afghanistan reached 1,000 at a time when President Barack Obama's strategy to tur...
Section of tracks may have been cut
SARDIHA, India — Suspected Maoist rebels derailed an overnight passenger train today in eastern India, triggering a crash with an onco...
KATMANDU, Nepal — The 13-year-old American boy who became the youngest person to climb Mount Everest announced plans today for an ascent later this year of Mount Cho Oyu...
