ANKARA, Turkey — Iraq's Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi arrived in Ankara today in an apparent attempt to convince Turkey not to stage a cross-border offensive to fight ...
They developed market theory
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Americans Leonid Hurwicz, Eric S. Maskin and Roger B. Myerson won the Nobel prize in economics today for developing a the...
Palestinians, Israelis differ
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice heard from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas today about his detailed expectatio...
WIESBADEN, Germany — Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted today that he would travel to Iran despite reports about a possible assassination attempt, saying if he pa...
HAVANA — Fidel Castro made his first live appearance on Cuban airwaves since falling ill 14 months ago, sounding lucid and in good humor as he exchanged praise and jokes...
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan authorities this week shut down two private security companies and said more than 10 others — including some suspected of murder and robbery ...
40 wounded in rare attack
BAGHDAD — A series of rockets or mortar rounds struck Camp Victory, killing two members of the U.S.-led coalition and wounding 40 other people o...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — British writer Doris Lessing has won the 2007 Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Academy said today, citing her "skepticism, fire and visionary p...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Gerhard Ertl of Germany won the 2007 Nobel Prize in chemistry today for studies of chemical reactions on solid surfaces, which are key to understandi...
Unveiling held on Beatle's birthday
REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Yoko Ono urged the world to give peace a chance with the unveiling today of the Imagine Peace Tower on Videy isla...
