TOKYO — Asian markets rose sharply today as investors regained some confidence after a strong overnight showing by Wall Street and the U.S. government's bailout of banki...
HONG KONG — Most Asian stock markets retreated today as worries about Citigroup weighed on financial shares, but pared some losses after the U.S. government unveiled a p...
CORNWALLIS, Canada — With the United States reevaluating strategy in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates is telling allies that additional U.S. forces planned fo...
Crowds oppose security deal
BAGHDAD — Followers of a Shiite cleric today stomped on and burned an effigy of President George W. Bush in the same central Baghdad square wh...
CAIRO, Egypt — Al-Qaida's No. 2 slurred Barack Obama with a demeaning racial term for a black American who does the bidding of whites in a new Web message Wednesday inte...
U.S. troops will stay until 2011
BAGHDAD — The U.S.-Iraqi security pact now before parliament calls for U.S. forces to leave Iraq's cities by June 30 in recognition of an...
WASHINGTON — European and Asian markets today didn't think much of the lengthy action plan world leaders came up with over the weekend to address a sagging global econom...
WASHINGTON — With economic damage piling ever higher, President George W. Bush and other world leaders are gathering to explore options for relief and to work on ways to...
Bone marrow transplants clear virus from man
BERLIN — An American man who suffered from AIDS appears to have been cured of the disease 20 months after receiving a targete...
BAGHDAD — The U.N.'s top Iraq envoy today condemned the killing of two Christian sisters in Mosul, the volatile northern city where Christian residents were starting to ...
