LONDON — European and Asian stock markets mostly fell today after a two-day rally amid profit-taking and concerns that the global efforts to restore confidence in the ba...
DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria's president issued a decree establishing diplomatic relations with Lebanon, and a foreign ministry official said the country will have an embassy...
BAGHDAD — Cars and trucks were loaded with suitcases, mattresses and passengers and lined up at checkpoints Monday to flee Mosul, a day after the 10th killing of an Iraq...
KOROLYOV, Russia — A Russian Soyuz craft docked with the international space station today, delivering an American computer game designer and two crew mates to the orbit...
OTTAWA — Canada's Conservative prime minister appeared poised to retain his job as polls opened today's national election but he faced a greater challenge in winning a p...
HELSINKI, Finland — Once you have won the Nobel Peace Prize, what do you do next?
Martti Ahtisaari, the 2008 winner, says it's time to tackle youth unemployment — "perha...
Heroin trade funds Afghan insurgents
BUDAPEST, Hungary — NATO defense ministers today authorized troops in Afghanistan to attack drug barons blamed for pumping up to $100...
TOKYO — A massive sell-off on Wall Street and escalating fears of a global recession sent Asian stocks plunging today, with Japan's benchmark index plunging more than 10...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — France's Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio won the 2008 Nobel Prize in literature today for works characterized by "poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy."...
BEIJING — More than 10,000 children remained hospitalized after being sickened in China's tainted milk scandal, eight of whom were in serious condition, officials said.
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