OKCULAR, Turkey — Homes in eastern areas of Turkey prone to earthquakes must be better built to withstand jolts like the magnitude 6 temblor that toppled village houses ...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — The rare spirits that went under the gavel at a recent online auction in New Zealand weren't aged brandies or hard-to-find liqueurs.
Instead, t...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A U.S. missionary held for more than a month in Haiti on kidnapping charges flew back to the United States after being released from prison, whil...
BAGHDAD — The top U.S. general for Iraq said the country's national election was a milestone on the way to a full pullout of U.S. combat troops by Sept. 1 as planned.
Ge...
CONCEPCION, Chile — Huge piles of wreckage and tons of rotting fish and other debris blanketing the ground are turning the coastal towns shattered by Chile's earthquake ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Two U.S. missionaries are spending another weekend in a Haitian jail.
A judge had said earlier he was likely to release the women soon. But that ...
REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Amid allegations of bullying and profiteering by bigger nations, angry Icelanders are expected to deliver a resounding slap down this weekend to pla...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The world's bill for the Haitian earthquake is large and growing — now $2.2 billion — and so is the criticism about how the money is being spent....
DICHATO, Chile — Chile's president says it will take three years to rebuild the region wracked by an earthquake and tsunami, something all too clear to the people cleani...
VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI will make a two-day visit to Spain in November, with a stop in Barcelona to consecrate the famed Sagrada Familia church, the Vatican's s...
