PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti Doctors and aid groups are rushing to set up cholera treatment centers across Haiti’s capital as officials warn that the disease’s encroachment int...
NEW DELHI President Barack Obama backed India for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council today, a dramatic diplomatic gesture to his hosts as he wrapped...
MOUNT MERAPI, Indonesia — Frightened residents abandoned their homes in a bustling city of 400,000 at the foot of Indonesia's rumbling volcano today, cramming onto train...
MOUNT MERAPI, Indonesia Searing gas avalanched down an Indonesian volcano with a thunderous roar, torching houses and trees and incinerating villagers as they fled Mount...
MOUNT MERAPI, Indonesia — Indonesia's most dangerous volcano forced international airlines to cancel flights to nearby airports today, as fiery lava lit the rumbling mou...
BAGHDAD — Iraqi security forces stormed a Baghdad church where militants had taken an entire congregation hostage for four hours, leaving at least 52 people dead, includ...
Troops force people to flee
MOUNT MERAPI, Indonesia — Indonesia's military forced villagers off the slopes of the country's most volatile volcano Saturday, carrying some ...
SAO PAULO, Brazil — A Brazilian court has ruled that McDonald's must pay a former franchise manager $17,500 because he gained 65 pounds while working there for a dozen y...
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...
