Environmental impact increasing
TAIYUAN, China — It takes five to 10 days for the pollution from China's coal-fired plants to make its way to the United States, like a sl...
She planned to lead protest
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistani police placed opposition leader Benazir Bhutto under house arrest today, uncoiling barbed wire in front of her...
ABOARD A MILITARY PLANE — The longer the political turmoil in Islamabad continues, the greater the risk that it will distract the Pakistani army from battling insurgents...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan's parliamentary elections will he held by mid-February, a month later than planned, the country's military ruler said today, a day after P...
Fabled forest needs massive rescue effort
EDWINSTOWE, England — Robin Hood might have a hard time hiding out in the Sherwood Forest of today.
The forest once covered abou...
Student kills 8, self in school
TUUSULA, Finland — The Finnish teenager who killed eight people in a high school shooting was a bullied social outcast but appears to have...
TBILISI, Georgia — Troops flooded the center of the Georgian capital today to enforce a state of emergency imposed after a violent crackdown on anti-government protester...
HELSINKI, Finland — A teenager opened fire at a high school in southern Finland today, killing one person and wounding three others, a municipal official said.
The incid...
5 killed Monday brings total to 852
BAGHDAD — The U.S. military today announced the deaths of five more soldiers, making 2007 the deadliest year for U.S. troops despite a...
KABUL, Afghanistan — Two bomb blasts targeted a group of lawmakers touring a factory north of Kabul today, killing at least 64 people, including five parliamentarians, t...
