WUFU, China — The rubble-strewn streets of Wufu are lined with wreaths. White flowers made of folded paper hang from bushes. And among the symbols of grief, roiling ange...
Saint Laurent, 71, had brain cancer
PARIS — Yves Saint Laurent, one of the most influential and enduring designers of the 20th century, will be remembered for empowering ...
PARIS — Americans are shell-shocked at $4-a-gallon gas. But consider France, where a gallon of petrol runs nearly $10. Or Turkey, where it's more than $11.
Drivers aroun...
Chinese troops draining water
MIANYANG, China — Chinese authorities had evacuated nearly 200,000 people by early Saturday and warned more than 1 million others to be read...
KATMANDU, Nepal — The main palace in Nepal's capital lowered the flag of the country's royal family today, a day after lawmakers, led by former communist insurgents, abo...
KABUL, Afghanistan — A roadside bomb hit a bus today in western Afghanistan, killing eight civilians, while another roadside bomb south of the capital left four Afghan p...
Military attempts to drain lake
MIANYANG, China — Chinese officials rushed today to evacuate another 80,000 people in the path of potential floodwaters building up behind...
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — A Dutch shipping company negotiated with Somali pirates today, seeking the release of nine crew members on a freighter that was hijacked in the ...
BAGHDAD — An al-Qaida in Iraq front group warned today that insurgents were waiting for the right moment to retaliate against a U.S.-Iraqi security crackdown in the nort...
YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar's military junta extended opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's detention by one year today, ignoring worldwide appeals to free the Nobel laurea...
