CANBERRA, Australia — Organizers claimed victory Thursday after torchbearers skirted pockets of protesters under a sky where a plane had spelled out "Free Tibet" to carr...
U.S., Iran remain icy to each other
KUWAIT CITY — The United States and Iran, the two nations with the most at stake in Iraq, pointedly ignored each other Tuesday as Iraq...
BAGHDAD — Civilian casualties mounted today as clashes between Shiite gunmen and U.S. and Iraqi troops spread to Baghdad's outskirts. Police said two women were among se...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Hamas is prepared to agree to a cease-fire with Israel that would begin only in the Gaza Strip, a senior representative of the militant group sai...
ACCRA, Ghana — The U.N. chief warned Sunday that the world must urgently increase food production to ease skyrocketing prices and pledged to set up a task force on a cri...
Father, stepmom facing charges
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — The father and stepmother of a 5-year-old girl allegedly thrown from a sixth-floor apartment window were arrested ...
BAGHDAD — An unmanned U.S. drone fired two Hellfire missiles at militants attacking Iraqi soldiers in a Shiite militia stronghold in the southern city of Basra today, ki...
Talks are first in many decades
BOAO, China — Chinese President Hu Jintao met with Taiwan's vice president-elect today on improving economic relations, the highest-level ...
Violence follows cleric's peace ploy
BAGHDAD — Shiite militants fought U.S. and Iraqi forces around Baghdad's Shiite district of Sadr City early Saturday despite a call f...
SYDNEY, Australia — Five teenagers brandishing baseball bats and machetes rampaged through a suburban Sydney school Monday and hit a teacher over the head, police said. ...
