JERUSALEM — Israeli, female, and looking to dodge the draft? Don't get caught kissing.
With more 18-year-old females claiming religious modesty as grounds for exemption ...
Millions there live in poverty
LUANDA, Angola — Pope Benedict XVI headed today to the southern African country of Angola, where most of the people — including more than 8...
MOSCOW — Some of the biggest names in U.S. foreign policy of the past decades met with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev today in an effort to improve frosty relations t...
Ex-president to write book
CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Former President George W. Bush, making his first public speech since leaving office in January, says he wants Barack O...
MANILA, Philippines — A Filipino woman whose accusations of rape led to the conviction of a U.S. Marine has altered her testimony and emigrated to the United States, say...
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE — Pope Benedict XVI said on his way to Africa today that condoms were not the answer in the continent’s fight against HIV, his first explicit stat...
KABUL — U.S.-led coalition troops killed seven militants and detained three others during a raid on a bomb-making cell in southern Afghanistan, where insurgents earlier ...
MINGORA, Pakistan — Judges trained in Islamic law began reviewing cases today in a northwest Pakistani region where the government has alarmed the West by agreeing to im...
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is close to announcing a redrawn strategy for a war in Afghanistan that the president says the United States is not winning, focusi...
Actions may have saved lives
WINNENDEN, Germany — The composed principal of a German high school was able to warn teachers with a pre-arranged code over the public addres...
