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...
Goal is to increase public goodwill
BAGHDAD — The roof is like many others in western Baghdad, except for the American soldier hiding behind sandbags, training his rifle ...
BAGHDAD — Gunmen ambushed travelers on a highway leading from Baghdad to Shiite areas to the south today, killing 14 people, while mortar rounds slammed into an area nea...
