MEXICO CITY — A top Mexican medical officer accused the World Health Organization of being slow to respond to the country's warning about a health crisis that turned int...
BAGHDAD — Three U.S. troops have been killed in fighting west of Baghdad, the military said today, making April the deadliest month for American forces in Iraq since Sep...
WHO mulls alert level
BERLIN - Germany and Austria confirmed cases of swine flu today, becoming the third and fourth European countries hit by the disease. As the United ...
PARIS - The threat of a swine flu pandemic kept global businesses and investors on edge today, disrupting travel plans and sending stock markets down on fears the outbre...
L'AQUILA, Italy - Pope Benedict XVI visited the earthquake-ravaged area of central Italy today to comfort survivors and give them hope to rebuild, visiting tent camps an...
Body found; no suspects ID'd
SYDNEY - Australian police appealed to the public Friday for help in solving the gruesome killing of a Chinese man who was shot 34 times in t...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Taliban militants completed their pullback from a district just 60 miles from the Pakistani capital, and troops fanned out in their wake, a senior o...
BAGHDAD - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday assured Iraq that the Obama administration would not abandon the country even as it presses ahead wi...
KINGSTON, Jamaica A gunman described as "mentally challenged" hijacked a Canadian jet on the tarmac near the resort city of Montego Bay and was holding six members of t...
LONDON Author J.G. Ballard, a survivor of a Japanese prison camp whose vision was so dark and distinctive it was labeled "Ballardian" and who reached a wide audience wi...
