A woman covers herself with a plastic poncho while walking in heavy rainsTuesday in Sabancuy, Mexico, in the Yucatan Peninsula, as Hurricane Dean passes through. Dean cl...
DAMASCUS, Syria — Iraq's prime minister lashed out today at U.S. criticism, saying no one has the right to impose timetables on his elected government and that his count...
U.S. soldiers were on night mission
BAGHDAD — A helicopter went down in northern Iraq today, killing all 14 U.S. soldiers aboard, the military said.
The military said ini...
NAHA, Japan — Taiwan grounded its fleet of Boeing 737-800 jetliners after a China Airlines plane exploded in a fireball Monday on the tarmac in Okinawa, and officials sa...
Mexico takes hit from Category 5
TULUM, Mexico — Hurricane Dean crashed into the Caribbean coast of Mexico today as a roaring Category 5 hurricane, the most intense Atlan...
MONTEBELLO, Quebec — President Bush's summit with the leaders of Canada and Mexico is likely to produce additional assurances of what unites them — and clear signs of wh...
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands — Frantic vacationers lined up at ticket counters and slept on the airport floor, rushing to leave the Cayman Islands ahead of an expected br...
PISCO, Peru — President Alan Garcia called for the orderly distribution of emergency supplies as desperate victims of a magnitude-8 earthquake on Peru's southern coast l...
ANKARA, Turkey — Two men who hijacked a Turkish passenger plane in an apparent protest against the U.S. surrendered to authorities Saturday after holding some crew membe...
Rescue crews search rubble
PISCO, Peru — Rescuers searched intensely through the night into morning today, combing rubble for any survivors after a powerful earthquake de...
