Al-Qaida-linked group suspected in 2 blasts
KAMPALA, Uganda— An al-Qaida-linked Somali militant group suspected in twin bombings in Uganda's capital that killed 64 people...
BERN, Switzerland — The Swiss government declared renowned film director Roman Polanski a free man today after rejecting a U.S. request to extradite him on a charge of h...
Taliban admits elders targeted
YAKAGHUND, Pakistan — The men and women wailed, stood stunned or wearily sifted through the rubble Saturday for bodies, survivors and answe...
CAIRO — Egyptian smokers saw prices surge today by as much as 100 percent as the government slapped new taxes on tobacco products in a bid to curb smoking and raise mone...
MANILA, Philippines — Benigno Aquino III was sworn in today as the Philippines' 15th president, leading a Southeast Asian nation his late parents helped liberate from di...
U.S., Russia have remained active
MOSCOW — A rock in a Moscow square allegedly concealing electronic spy equipment. A Jaguar-driving double agent contacting handlers by l...
HANOI, Vietnam — The United Nations has launched a $5 million project to clean up Agent Orange contamination at a former U.S military air base in Vietnam, the world body...
TBILISI, Georgia — Authorities in Georgia on Sunday tore down another monument to Soviet dictator and native son Josef Stalin.
The monument in the town of Tkibuli in wes...
Dozens in sport may be suspended
TOKYO — The venerable sport of sumo wrestling — already reeling from a series of drug and bad-conduct scandals — said today it may suspen...
BEIJING — Wu Guanzhong, known as one of the fathers of modern Chinese art for combining western and Chinese elements in black and white oil paintings, has died. He was 9...
