Little changes in 10 years under China
HONG KONG — Many were gloomy about Hong Kong's future 10 years ago when the British colony of dazzling skyscrapers and gung-ho capi...
Iraqi orphans moved to better facilities
BAGHDAD — The 24 boys found severely malnourished in a Baghdad orphanage have been moved to a different building in the same fac...
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Closing ranks against Hamas, Egypt's president invited Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian leaders to a peace summit, officials said today, the bigg...
5 die in attack on convoy in Baghdad
BAGHDAD — The U.S. military announced the deaths of 14 American troops, including five killed today in a single roadside bombing that...
Famous island Iwo To again
TOKYO — Japan has returned to using the prewar name for the island of Iwo Jima — site of one of World War II's most horrific battles — at the u...
Advice given to motorists
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican on Tuesday issued a "Ten Commandments" for motorists to keep them on the road to salvation, warning drivers against t...
2 mosques damaged; no one is hurt
BAGHDAD — Gunmen blew up two Sunni mosques today south of Baghdad, causing heavy damage but no casualties, police said, in an apparent r...
EREZ CROSSING, Gaza Strip — Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak ordered the army today to allow into Israel any of the hundreds of Gazans holed up at a fetid crossing wh...
LONDON — A team of international investigators infiltrated an Internet chat room used by pedophiles, rescuing 31 children and identifying more than 700 suspects worldwid...
U.S. offensive continues
BAGHDAD — A truck bomb struck a Shiite mosque today in central Baghdad, killing 75 people and wounding more than 200, even as about 10,000 U.S. s...
