TOKYO — Cat and mouse may never be the same.
Japanese scientists say they've used genetic engineering to create mice that show no fear of felines, a development that may...
ALGIERS, Algeria — Emergency workers searched for bodies and survivors today after twin truck bombings by an affiliate of al-Qaida targeted U.N. offices and a government...
MOSCOW — Dmitry Medvedev, the hand-picked candidate to succeed President Vladimir Putin, called today for Putin become prime minister after the March 2 election.
Putin i...
BERLIN — Karlheinz Stockhausen, one of the most important and controversial postwar composers who helped shape a new understanding of sound through electronic compositio...
MOSUL, Iraq — Defense Secretary Robert Gates is using his latest unannounced trip to Iraq to assess whether the downturn in violence in parts of the country can be susta...
LONDON — A British teacher jailed in Sudan for letting her students name a teddy bear Muhammad as part of a writing project arrived home today after being pardoned and s...
U.S.: Weapons effort halted
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's foreign minister today welcomed the U.S. decision to "correct" its claim that Tehran has an active nuclear weapons progr...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Opposition leader Nawaz Sharif risks disqualification from Pakistan's crucial parliamentary elections after an official rejected his nomination pap...
Opponents calling votes unfair, dirty
MOSCOW — European election monitors said today that Russia's parliamentary ballot was unfair, hours after President Vladimir Putin's...
Venezuelan voters nix socialist plan
CARACAS, Venezuela — Humbled by his first electoral defeat, President Hugo Chavez said today he may have been too ambitious in asking...
