BAGHDAD — A suicide car bomber tore through a busy market in the Shiite holy city of Kufa this morning, killing at least 16 people and wounding 70 in an attack sure to f...
JERUSALEM — An Israeli archaeologist has found the tomb of King Herod, the legendary builder of ancient Jerusalem and the Holy Land, Hebrew University said late Monday.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil — Pope Benedict XVI is heading to the world's most populous Roman Catholic country at a time when evangelical Christians are packing cavernous churches...
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Protestant leader Ian Paisley, who spent decades refusing to cooperate with Northern Ireland's Catholic minority, was elected Tuesday to over...
Kenya flight goes down in swamp
MBANGA-PONGO, Cameroon — None of the 114 people aboard a Kenya Airways flight survived its crash into a thick mangrove swamp over the week...
Attacks hurt U.S. efforts
BAGHDAD — Two suicide car bombers attacked a market and a police checkpoint on the outskirts of Ramadi, killing at least 20 people and dealing a...
Sarkozy wins big in president race
PARIS — French president-elect Nicolas Sarkozy plans to waste no time pushing through a weighty package of pro-market, anti-crime refor...
PARIS — The jailed Venezuelan terrorist known as Carlos the Jackal is to face trial for his alleged role in deadly terror bombings in 1982 and 1983 in France, a judicial...
Congress outraged at vacation plans
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers divided over whether to keep U.S. troops in Iraq are finding common ground on at least one topic: They are furi...
SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will meet Syria's foreign minister in the first high-level talks between the countries in years, a U.S. offic...
