Fighting leaves hundreds dead
TBILISI, Georgia — Georgia's President Mikhail Saakashvili proposed Saturday to declare a cease-fire in the breakaway province of South Osse...
Fireworks light up the sky over the National Stadium in Beijing during the opening ceremony for the 2008 Beijing Olympics on Saturday. Taped coverage of the opening cere...
Psychiatrists will evaluate man
TORONTO — A man accused of stabbing and beheading another passenger on a Greyhound bus in Canada pleaded Tuesday in court for someone to "...
Italian criticizes expedition
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The last survivor of the deadliest mountaineering disaster ever to hit the world's second-highest peak was rescued by ...
Torch to tour Beijing before opening games
BEIJING — The Olympic flame approached the final destination of its long and sometimes contentious global tour today, greeted b...
Russian president attends service
MOSCOW — Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning author whose books exposed the horrors of Soviet slave labor camps, was buried ...
Human rights issues overlooked
PARIS — To go or not to go — world leaders invited to the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics faced a choice riddled with risks.
The g...
Dissidents are rounded up
BANGKOK, Thailand — The same day of his arrival in Beijing for the Olympics, President Bush plans to pointedly express "deep concerns" about the...
Tribute is paid to Solzhenitsyn
MOSCOW — Hundreds of Russians lined up in the pelting rain today to pay tribute to Alexander Solzhenitsyn as the author, dissident and pat...
BEIJING — Two men rammed a truck into a clutch of jogging policemen and tossed explosives, killing 16 officers today, state media said, in an attack in a restive provinc...
