Climate change influence sought
BEIJING — Japan urged China to use its growing influence to make an impact on key global issues such as climate change during summit talks...
Pair of kidnap suspects held
BAGHDAD — U.S. troops killed 11 members of a Mahdi Army splinter group early today, American officials said. The military also announced that...
Man kills opposition leader, 20 others
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated today in a suicide attack that also killed at lea...
TEHRAN, Iran — Russia is preparing to equip Iran with a powerful new air defense system that would dramatically increase its ability to repel an attack, Iran's defense m...
At least 78 dead in Indonesia
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Rescuers dug for survivors today after landslides and floods triggered by days of torrential rain killed dozens of peop...
Residents survey a house destroyed by a landslide in Tawangmangu, Indonesia, today. Days of torrential rain triggered landslides that killed up to 78 people in western I...
Sparse violence brings tourists
BETHLEHEM, West Bank — Gloom was banished from Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem for the first time in years today as Christian pilgrims...
KABUL, Afghanistan — As the choir of Army soldiers sang a spirited "Frosty the Snowman" under a light snowfall Sunday evening, Lt. Com. Lynne O'Neil bobbed in time and t...
LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II became Britain's oldest-ever monarch Thursday, reaching a new milestone in a job she has held for more than a half century — one that comes w...
ORANJESTAD, Aruba — Prosecutors today plan to divulge evidence they gathered over the last eight months against three young men who will not be charged in the disappeara...
