CAIRO — A storehouse of 30 Egyptian mummies was unearthed inside a 2,600-year-old tomb in a new round of excavations at the vast necropolis of Saqqara outside Cairo, arc...
Chinese soldiers use washbasins to help irrigate crops in a field at Hejie village in Xuchang in China's Henan province today. The People's Liberation Army deployed more...
JERUSALEM — Palestinian militants detonated a bomb next to an Israeli army patrol along the border with Gaza today, killing one soldier and wounding three in the first s...
CAIRO, Egypt — President Barack Obama today chose an Arabic satellite TV network for his first formal television interview as president, delivering a message to the Musl...
2 helicopters go down in N. Iraq
BAGHDAD — Two U.S. helicopters crashed today in northern Iraq, killing four American troops, the U.S. military said.
The military said th...
LONDON — Iceland's prime minister says the island nation's coalition government has collapsed amid a deepening financial crisis.
Prime Minister Geir Haarde says talks be...
ROME — Premier Silvio Berlusconi sparked outrage Sunday for suggesting that Italy's women were so beautiful they needed military escorts to avoid being raped.
Berlusconi...
BEIJING — China greeted the arrival today of the Year of the Ox with fireworks and celebrations, bidding farewell to a tumultuous 2008 marked by a massive earthquake, th...
280 children died in fight
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Tens of thousands of children wearing uniforms and carrying satchels flocked back to schools in the Gaza Strip on Satur...
