ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — President Gen. Pervez Musharraf faces a potent challenge with the return from exile of the religiously conservative elected leader he overthrew eig...
Oil prices rose to near $99 a barrel today with temperatures falling in the United States and Europe and continued weakness for the U.S. dollar.
The Thanksgiving holiday...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Militants struck at the heart of Pakistan's security establishment Saturday, killing up to 35 people in suicide attacks on a checkpoint outside arm...
Ship flounders in the Antarctic
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — A Canadian cruise ship struck ice off Antarctica and began taking on water, but all 100 passengers and crew took...
DHAKA, Bangladesh — The U.S. Navy prepared today to deliver much-needed food and medical supplies to hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshis stricken by Cyclone Sidr, a to...
CAMP SPEICHER, Iraq — Five years ago, Vincent Lobo was working as a tobacco salesman in his native India, and had no idea what Thanksgiving was.
Now Lobo is spending a f...
LONDON — A French magistrate denied Tuesday that she authorized the embalming of Princess Diana's body, or that anyone from the British Embassy in Paris had discussed em...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — More than 3,000 people jailed under emergency rule have been released, the Interior Ministry said today, the latest sign that President Gen. Pervez...
BAGHDAD — Three members of Iraq's Olympic soccer team and their assistant coach left the team during a trip to Australia and are seeking asylum in the country, Iraq's so...
BARGUNA, Bangladesh — Dhalan Mridha and his family had ignored the high cyclone alert issued by authorities until just before midnight, when he says "the winds came like...
