THE BELL: Strictly speaking, the name "Big Ben" applies only to the bell, although nearly everyone it to describe the clock tower that houses it. The origins of the ...
LONDON — Defiantly low-tech yet accurate to the second, Big Ben is having its 150th birthday Sunday, its Victorian chimes carrying the sound of Britain into the 21st cen...
BEIJING — Instead of toiling in an office cubicle as she did two years ago, Ma Yanyan spent Thursday's Dragon Boat Festival as befits tradition: rowing in sync to a thun...
Homeland is now part of Pakistan
ISLAMABAD — His family once ruled the Swat Valley. Now he can only watch as his beautiful ancestral homeland is torn apart by clashes bet...
LONDON — Special stockings commonly given to stroke patients to prevent blood clots don't work, a new study reported Wednesday.
Doctors often prescribe the tight, thigh-...
MELBOURNE, Australia — A doctor in rural Australia used a handyman's power drill to bore a hole into the skull of a boy with a severe head injury, saving his life.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The U.N. is turning to Bill Clinton as its emissary to chronically unstable Haiti, where the former president is popular but not the peacekeepers...
U.S. missile hits Taliban camp
ISLAMABAD — A car bomb destroyed an Internet cafe and tore through a bus carrying handicapped children in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday...
NAZARETH, Israel — Pope Benedict XVI greeted tens of thousands of adoring followers in Jesus' childhood hometown with a message of reconciliation today, urging Christian...
Experts say supply needed in case of swine flu mutation
MEXICO CITY — With swine flu still spreading, the U.N. health agency is warning countries to limit their use of an...
