LONDON — Prime Minister Tony Blair, President Bush's closest ally, was likely to announce plans today to resign in the next year, forced by intense pressure within his ...
LONDON — A new, deadly strain of tuberculosis has killed 52 of 53 people infected in the last year in South Africa, the World Health Organization said, calling for impro...
Dad: He's an ordinary guy
BEERWAH, Australia — "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin, killed in a freak stingray attack this week, would not have wanted a state funeral because ...
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Parliament voted today to extend a state of emergency for a month, and Britain's foreign secretary emphasized the importance of transferring control of s...
Expanding the security in works
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki met with Iraq's most influential Shiite cleric Saturday to discuss the country's deteriorat...
TEHRAN, Iran — A landing Iranian passenger plane skidded off the runway and raked its wing along the ground, sparking a fire that killed 29 of the 148 people on board Fr...
TYRE, Lebanon — Italian soldiers poured into Lebanon on Saturday, part of the first large contingent of international troops dispatched to boost the U.N. force keeping t...
MANOPPELLO, Italy (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI on Friday prayed at a sanctuary in this tiny village in central Italy that is home to a shroud some believe was used to wipe t...
Leader vows to never give it up
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran underlined its disregard today for the U.N. deadline to halt uranium enrichment — now expired — when its president vow...
Shiites were likely targets
BAGHDAD, Iraq — A barrage of coordinated bomb and rocket attacks on eastern Baghdad neighborhoods killed at least 47 people and wounded more t...
