Mattel takes the blame for recalls
BEIJING — U.S.-based toy giant Mattel issued an extraordinary apology to China today over the recall of Chinese-made toys, taking the b...
SOROTI, Uganda — Fish swam alongside the dugout canoes residents were using to flee their flooded homes, riding the water gushing through the streets of this town in eas...
WASHINGTON — The fog of war keeps getting thicker.
The Iraqi government's decision to temporarily ban the security company Blackwater USA after a fatal shooting of civil...
Territory declared an enemy entity
JERUSALEM — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said today the United States "will not abandon the innocent Palestinians in Gaza," shor...
MRSA offensive also targets sleeves
LONDON — British hospitals are banning neckties, long sleeves and jewelry for doctors — and their traditional white coats — in an effo...
89 killed in Sunday wreck
PHUKET, Thailand — Authorities today found the two flight data recorders from a plane that crashed and killed 89 people — mostly foreigners — on...
Firm accused in shooting
BAGHDAD — The Iraqi government said today that it was pulling the license of an American security firm allegedly involved in the fatal shooting o...
Iraqi children read the Quran on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan, Friday, in the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf, south of Baghdad. Violence continues to plague Iraq...
N. Korea agents were in country
ROME — A senior U.S. nuclear official said Friday that North Koreans were in Syria and that Damascus may have had contacts with "secret su...
Pakistan's ruling party backs leader
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan's ruling party has enough votes to re-elect President Gen. Pervez Musharraf to a new five-year term, a...
