Deadliest day since pullout
BAGHDAD — A truck bomb tore through Iraq's Foreign Ministry today, knocking out concrete slabs and windows and leaving a mass of charred cars ...
Presidential vote set in Afghanistan
KABUL — Police stormed a bank in Kabul on today and killed three insurgents who had taken it over, while a wave of attacks killed at ...
SEOUL, South Korea — Kim Dae-jung, the Nobel Peace Prize recipient and former South Korea president who survived assassination attempts and a death sentence, died today....
NAIROBI, Kenya — Relatives say an 89-year-old Kenyan man believed to be the world's oldest primary school pupil has died. Joseph Stephen Kimani Nganga Maruge died Friday...
BAGHDAD — Iraq's prime minister said Saturday that insurgents will likely intensify their attacks in the run-up to January national elections in an attempt to destroy na...
Brazil show often first on grisly scene
SAO PAULO, Brazil — In one murder after another, the "Canal Livre" crime TV show had an uncanny knack for being first on the scene...
CISHAN, Taiwan — Taiwan's military rescued about 300 people today after a mudslide touched off by Typhoon Morakot consumed a village, but scores remained missing. A heli...
TAIPEI, Taiwan — A typhoon-spawned mudslide engulfed a mountain village in southern Taiwan, burying schools and homes and hundreds of people under debris, a police offic...
VIENNA — The King of Pop is to get a royal send-off in Vienna.
Events promoter World Awards Media GmbH confirmed today that members of Michael Jackson's family and a "hi...
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Pakistan's Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud, who led a violent campaign of suicide attacks and assassinations against the Pakistani government...
