SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Emiliano Mercado del Toro was born when Puerto Rico was still a Spanish colony and trained as a soldier the year World War I ended.
On Wednesday,...
Climate change partly to blame
BANGKOK, Thailand — Nearly half of the world's waterbird species are in decline, mostly due to rapid economic development and the effects o...
They were shot in head
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Four of the five Americans killed when a U.S. security company's helicopter crashed in a dangerous Sunni neighborhood in central Ba...
Museum depicts difficulty of life
HANOI, Vietnam — A bowl of noodle soup for breakfast was beyond the dreams of most people back in the days before Vietnam's economic ref...
President faces rape charges
JERUSALEM — Israeli President Moshe Katsav asked parliament today to temporarily remove him from office after Israel's attorney general recom...
BAGHDAD — The U.S. military in Baghdad said today it was investigating what appeared to be the crash of a civilian aircraft after reports a helicopter was shot down over...
Violence in Iraq escalates
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Five people were killed when two bombs struck separate Shiite targets in Baghdad today, a day after a double car bombing tore t...
BAGHDAD, Iraq— At least 78 people were killed and more than 150 wounded today after two nearly simultaneous bombs struck a predominantly Shiite commercial area in centra...
MONTREAL — Julie Winnifred Bertrand, the world's oldest woman at 115, died in her sleep in a Montreal nursing home, according to Canadian media reports Friday.
Bertrand,...
BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S. and Iraqi forces arrested one of Muqtada al-Sadr's top aides today in Baghdad, his office said, as pressure increased on the radical Shiite cleric's...
