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...
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Tearful friends and relatives, some cheering or waving flags, welcomed 429 Palestinian prisoners after their early release by Israel today in a ges...
BAGHDAD — A mass grave containing the remains of 12 people, including a paramedic who disappeared more than a year ago, was unearthed in central Iraq in an area long con...
BAGHDAD — Dozens of suspected al-Qaida militants stormed a Shiite village north of Baghdad on Saturday, killing at least 13 people and torching homes, police said.
The a...
