TOYAKO, Japan — President Bush and new Russian President Dmitry Medvedev stood united Monday on issues like Iran and North Korea. But for all their handshakes and smiles...
BEIJING — The gold, silver and bronze medals that will hang around the necks of athletes at next month's Olympics were formally handed over Thursday to the organizers of...
Stunning buildings alter stodgy image
BEIJING — This ancient capital city, long known for the architectural splendor of its centuries-old palaces and temples, is getting ...
FARC rebels duped into releasing them
BOGOTA, Colombia — Ingrid Betancourt woke up, as always, at 4 a.m., for another numbing day in her seventh year of rebel captivity d...
Size of U.S. stockpile, Iran fuel volatility
Oil prices neared $146 a barrel today for the first time ever on reports of declining U.S. stockpiles and the threat of confl...
BAGHDAD — Iraqi security forces arrested two locally prominent supporters of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr today as part of their crackdown against Shiite militi...
Social Security numbers listed
WASHINGTON — When it comes to the risks of identity theft, the U.S. government isn't taking its own advice.
The nation's Medicare agency an...
13 have died, including Cranberry woman's son
PITTSBURGH — Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, says 13 Americans were electrocuted in Iraq since Septembe...
Afghan fighting intense in south
KABUL, Afghanistan — Helicopters and a bomber attacked insurgents massing in eastern Afghanistan under cover of darkness, killing an esti...
Rescue workers search for survivors today after a building collapsed in northern Tehran. State television says 19 people were killed. The television quotes Tehran Prosec...
