STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Two Americans and a U.S.-based Japanese scientist won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their discovery and development of a protein that literally il...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Two Japanese citizens and an American won the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics for discoveries that help explain the behavior of the smallest particles of...
Crisis fears hit Asia, Europe
LONDON — Asian and European stock markets plunged Monday as government bank bailouts in the U.S. and Europe failed to alleviate fears that t...
Financial crisis slows demand
SINGAPORE — Oil prices fell to an eight-month low below $90 a barrel on speculation that the spreading financial crisis will exacerbate a gl...
$6.5 billion arms deal approved
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou welcomed Saturday a U.S. decision to sell the island up to $6.5 billion in advanced weapo...
Lethal bombings blamed on leader
BAGHDAD — The U.S. military said Saturday it has killed an al-Qaida in Iraq leader suspected of masterminding one of the deadliest attack...
Attack targeted Taliban militants
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Militants on Saturday buried the bodies of Arab comrades who were among at least 20 people killed when susp...
SYDNEY, Australia — A 7-year-old boy broke into a popular Outback zoo, fed a string of animals to the resident crocodile and bashed several lizards to death with a rock,...
MONTERREY, Mexico — The world's most obese man is getting hitched.
Manuel Uribe said he will wed longtime girlfriend Claudia Solis on Oct. 26 in Monterrey, Mexico. The t...
SEOUL, South Korea — The first military talks between North and South Korea in eight months ended in just an hour and a half today, an official said, casting doubts over...
