Saint Laurent, 71, had brain cancer
PARIS — Yves Saint Laurent, one of the most influential and enduring designers of the 20th century, will be remembered for empowering ...
PARIS — Americans are shell-shocked at $4-a-gallon gas. But consider France, where a gallon of petrol runs nearly $10. Or Turkey, where it's more than $11.
Drivers aroun...
Chinese troops draining water
MIANYANG, China — Chinese authorities had evacuated nearly 200,000 people by early Saturday and warned more than 1 million others to be read...
KATMANDU, Nepal — The main palace in Nepal's capital lowered the flag of the country's royal family today, a day after lawmakers, led by former communist insurgents, abo...
KABUL, Afghanistan — A roadside bomb hit a bus today in western Afghanistan, killing eight civilians, while another roadside bomb south of the capital left four Afghan p...
Military attempts to drain lake
MIANYANG, China — Chinese officials rushed today to evacuate another 80,000 people in the path of potential floodwaters building up behind...
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — A Dutch shipping company negotiated with Somali pirates today, seeking the release of nine crew members on a freighter that was hijacked in the ...
BAGHDAD — An al-Qaida in Iraq front group warned today that insurgents were waiting for the right moment to retaliate against a U.S.-Iraqi security crackdown in the nort...
YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar's military junta extended opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's detention by one year today, ignoring worldwide appeals to free the Nobel laurea...
ACAPULCO, Mexico — A shark killed a surfer Friday off Mexico's Pacific coast — six miles from a beach where an American man was killed in a similar attack last month, au...
