PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide bomber killed 30 people attending prayers at a mosque, the latest violence to rock Pakistan's northwest just as the army says it is beatin...
BEIJING — China aggressively deterred dissent in the capital on today's 20th anniversary of the crackdown on democracy activists in Tiananmen Square. But thousands turne...
West Bank settlers upset
JERUSALEM — Israel, the country most on edge about Barack Obama's outreach to Muslims, had decidedly mixed reactions today to the U.S. president'...
Jet broke apart over Atlantic
FERNANDO DE NORONHA, Brazil — Air France told families of passengers on Flight 447 that the jetliner broke apart and they must abandon hope ...
CAIRO — Quoting from the Quran for emphasis, President Barack Obama called for a "new beginning between the United States and Muslims" today and said together, they coul...
Improving Muslim relations his goal
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — President Barack Obama began his latest bid to open a dialogue with the Muslim world by paying a call today on ...
SEOUL, South Korea — Kim Jong Il's youngest son — a 26-year-old who reportedly enjoys skiing and studied English, German and French at a Swiss boarding school — was name...
RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian media are reporting that search planes may have spotted some signs of debris from the Air France jetliner missing in the Atlantic Ocean. But t...
SAO PAULO, Brazil — An Air France jet carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro to Paris hit strong turbulence and lost contact with air traffic controllers over the Atlan...
LONDON — Millvina Dean was the youngest passenger on RMS Titanic, just nine weeks old when she when she was wrapped in a sack and lowered from the sinking ship into a li...
