Region votes for president
SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq — Iraqis voting in Saturday's election in the self-ruled Kurdish north expressed hope it would shake up the entrenched regio...
TOKYO — Her uniform looks good, with striped scarf and blue cap in perfect order, but railway employee Mitsue Endo has one thing to do before she faces the masses — pass...
TOKYO, Japan — Millions of Asians turned their eyes skyward today as dawn suddenly turned to darkness across the continent in the longest total solar eclipse of this cen...
PHUKET, Thailand — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived at a key security conference today carrying a no-nonsense message that the United States is rea...
AOSTA, Italy — Pope Benedict XVI waved reassuringly to well-wishers outside a hospital Friday where he underwent surgery to set a fractured right wrist suffered when he ...
AOSTA, Italy — Doctors said Pope Benedict XVI will have to stay in a cast for a month after breaking his right wrist in a fall in his chalet while vacationing in the Ita...
A spokesman for a Taliban commander said a captured U.S. soldier will be executed unless the U.S. military stops operations in two districts of southeastern Afghanistan....
BAGHDAD — Iraqi authorities imposed vehicle bans in two mostly Christian towns and are increasing security around churches in Baghdad after attacks targeted the Christia...
'Harry Potter' film seen as vehicle
TOKYO — Megascreen theater company IMAX is hoping Harry Potter's magic touch will help catapult the company itself into a global smash...
Prosecutors say he was camp guard
MUNICH — German prosecutors formally charged John Demjanjuk today with 27,900 counts of being an accessory to murder at a Nazi death cam...
