KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan authorities this week shut down two private security companies and said more than 10 others — including some suspected of murder and robbery ...
40 wounded in rare attack
BAGHDAD — A series of rockets or mortar rounds struck Camp Victory, killing two members of the U.S.-led coalition and wounding 40 other people o...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — British writer Doris Lessing has won the 2007 Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Academy said today, citing her "skepticism, fire and visionary p...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Gerhard Ertl of Germany won the 2007 Nobel Prize in chemistry today for studies of chemical reactions on solid surfaces, which are key to understandi...
Unveiling held on Beatle's birthday
REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Yoko Ono urged the world to give peace a chance with the unveiling today of the Imagine Peace Tower on Videy isla...
BAGHDAD — An official Iraqi investigation into a deadly shooting involving Blackwater USA security guards raised the number of Iraqis killed to 17 and found the gunfire ...
PARIS — A decade after Princess Diana and her boyfriend Dodi Fayed were killed in a Paris car crash, a British coroner's jury comes to the French capital this week to re...
Gene manipulation benefits research
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — U.S. citizens Mario R. Capecchi and Oliver Smithies and Sir Martin J. Evans of Britain won the 2007 Nobel Prize in...
Few studies done on cause
PARIS — Who is to blame for the killing of 1.4 million Jews in Nazi-occupied Ukraine? And what can be done now to dispel age-old anti-Semitism i...
KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide car bomber attacked an American military convoy on the road to Kabul's airport on Saturday, killing a U.S. soldier and a four Afghan civil...
