KAUHAJOKI, Finland — Police released details today about the victims of a school massacre in western Finland, saying eight women and two men were killed by the 22-year-o...
BEIJING — China said Sunday the number of children sickened by baby formula tainted with the banned industrial chemical melamine has doubled to nearly 12,900 as the gove...
PARIS — It's a forgotten melody, sketched in black ink in a swift but sure hand.
The single manuscript page, long hidden in a provincial French library, was verified as ...
Many treat cigarettes as being off-limits
RAMALLAH, West Bank — It's the fasting month of Ramadan, and fear of God keeps taxi driver Abdel Karim Romaneh from reaching fo...
JERUSALEM — Israel's foreign minister eked out a victory today in a surprisingly tight race to replace Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as the head of the governing party, put...
SAN'A, Yemen — A car bomb targeting the U.S. Embassy hit the front gate of the compound in Yemen's capital today, a U.S. spokesman said. A senior Yemeni security officia...
BAGHDAD — David Petraeus, the American general who presided over Iraq's pullback from the brink of all-out civil war, relinquished his command today to Gen. Ray Odierno ...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan's military ordered its forces to open fire if U.S. troops launch another air or ground raid across the Afghan border, an army spokesman sa...
Deadline met for withdraw
TBILISI, Georgia — Russian forces withdrew from several positions in western Georgia on Saturday, and a Georgian official said Russia met a dead...
BAGHDAD — A bomb concealed in a kiosk used to sell ice killed four people and wounded nine others Saturday at a security checkpoint in Baghdad, Iraqi authorities said.
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