Tighter financial rules also sought
LONDON Global leaders made headway today on tackling the world's worst financial crisis since the 1930s, with possible deals to give ...
He meets with S. Korean leader
SEOUL, South Korea With North Korea's announced plan to launch a rocket as early as this weekend, the 16-year-old nuclear crisis on the Ko...
Gursharan Kaur, left, wife of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh; Michelle Obama, wife of U.S. President Barack Obama; and Kim Yoon-ok, first lady of Korea, today visi...
Obama working to repair relations
LONDON — The United States and Russia, striving to ease strained relations, announced jointly today they will try to put a new nuclear a...
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama left for Europe today, packing a weighty agenda as he heads for critical economic and political talks in his first journey across the...
Country will get more aid
KABUL — Afghanistan's president offered support Saturday for the new U.S. strategy for the growing conflict in his country, praising increased c...
Tragedy leaves at least 77 dead
CIRENDEU, Indonesia — Soldiers and police dug through piles of mud and debris Saturday in a desperate search for survivors after a flood f...
TOKYO — A 93-year-old Japanese man became the first person certified as a survivor of both U.S. atomic bombings at the end of World War II, officials said today.
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BEIJING — China is calling for a new global currency controlled by the International Monetary Fund, stepping up pressure ahead of a London summit of global leaders for c...
JERUSALEM — Israeli, female, and looking to dodge the draft? Don't get caught kissing.
With more 18-year-old females claiming religious modesty as grounds for exemption ...
