NADAHAN VILLAGE, Afghanistan — A suicide bomb ripped through a wedding party for a family with ties to police in the Taliban's heartland in Afghanistan, killing at least...
KABUL, Afghanistan — Two more American troops were killed in Afghanistan today, the military said, extending a spike of bloodshed into a second day and pushing the NATO ...
LONDON— Jack Harrison, who survived the Great Escape plot by Allied prisoners in a German prison in World War II, has died at age 97, his family said.
Harrison died Frid...
LIMA, Peru — Dutchman Joran Van der Sloot, long the prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of a U.S. teen in Aruba, confessed to killing a young Peruvian woman in his L...
Tensions escalate in Gaza blockade
JERUSALEM — Israeli naval forces shot and killed four men wearing wet suits in the waters off the coast of Gaza today, and a militant g...
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's brother-in-law was promoted and a premier who apologized for a currency debacle was replaced today in a rare parli...
ATHENS, Greece — When it comes to overspending, Greece gets the gold medal.
Governments in the Greek capital of Athens haven't balanced a budget in nearly 40 years, and ...
Taxi driver kills 10 in London
LONDON — A taxi driver killed 10 victims in a single hour during a shooting rampage in rural England in which he murdered 12 people and wou...
CAIRO — The Irish Nobel Peace Prize laureate on an aid ship heading to Gaza says the activists on board will not resist Israeli soldiers if they board the vessel.
Mairea...
U.S. naval base issue costs him
TOKYO — Embattled Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama resigned today to improve his party's chances in an election next month, after hi...
