Militants take control of Gaza
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — On its first day of full rule in Gaza, the Islamic militant Hamas today granted amnesty to Fatah leaders, signaling...
Shells fired at Green Zone
BAGHDAD — Five U.S. soldiers died in Iraq, the U.S. military announced today, a day after extremists fired shells into Baghdad's Green Zone dur...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Hamas fighters overran one of the rival Fatah movement's most important security installations in the Gaza Strip today, and witnesses said the vi...
Counterattacks are now feared
BAGHDAD — Saboteur bombers destroyed the two minarets of a revered Shiite shrine in Samarra early today, in a repeat of the 2006 attack that...
Tainted items had hit market
BEIJING — China's problems with food safety are not major and should not be overblown, an official said today in the latest push to alleviate...
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan police mistakenly thought U.S. troops on a nighttime mission were Taliban fighters and opened fire on them, prompting U.S. forces to return f...
Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin is show at work at the international space station. NASA managers decided Monday to extend the mission of the space shuttle Atlantis ...
SOFIA, Bulgaria — President Bush, turning from adulation in the Balkans to difficulties back home, said today that his stalled immigration overhaul would be revived and ...
ROME — President Bush, in his first meeting with Pope Benedict XVI, defended his humanitarian record around the globe, telling the papal leader on Saturday about U.S. ef...
Storm sets sights on Persian Gulf nations
MUSCAT, Oman — Oman evacuated tens of thousands of people Wednesday, suspended oil exports, and closed the major port of Sohar a...
