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...
ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia — A fire swept through a nursing home in southern Russia today and killed 62 people, a toll authorities said was inflated by safety violations, neg...
Several wounded by blast in Kabul
KABUL, Afghanistan — A car bomb exploded near a three-vehicle U.S. Embassy convoy on a busy road in Kabul today, wounding several people...
