GENEVA — U.N. health agencies recommended today that heterosexual men undergo circumcision because of "compelling" evidence that it can reduce their chances of contracti...
Armed standoff lasts for 10 hours
MANILA, Philippines — A day-care center owner armed with grenades and guns held more than 30 youngsters and teachers hostage on a bus We...
BAGHDAD — Shiite militants and police enraged by massive truck bombings in the northwestern town of Tal Afar went on a revenge spree against Sunni residents there today,...
Sunday quake killed at least 1
KANAZAWA, Japan — Aftershocks shook a rural area of coastal central Japan today, a day after a powerful earthquake killed at least one pers...
LONDON — Iran warned that 15 British sailors and marines could face charges for allegedly entering Iranian waters and rejected British requests to meet with the servicem...
Knut, a polar bear cub, has his first public appearance in the Berlin Zoo today. Television crews and photographers jockeyed with hundreds of excited children at the zoo...
BAGHDAD — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon held talks in Baghdad today with Iraq's prime minister just as his government disclosed that it had been in indirect talks w...
2 missing after blast kills 108
NOVOKUZNETSK, Russia — Flooded caverns and flammable gas hampered the search Wednesday for two workers missing after an explosion at a Sib...
Japan faces calls to pull troops
TOKYO — Japan's defense minister, who recently called the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq a "mistake," said today he would like to visit the co...
Car bombs kill at least 6 in Baghdad
BAGHDAD — Saddam Hussein's former deputy was hanged before dawn today, the fourth man to be executed in the killings of 148 Shiites f...
