It wants north to cut nukes
SEOUL, South Korea — China, which holds the key to whether tough U.N. sanctions will be imposed, warned North Korea today that its nuclear tes...
World leaders call for harsh U.N. sanctions
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea faced a barrage of global condemnation and calls for harsh sanctions today after it announced...
KABUL, Afghanistan — NATO took over eastern Afghanistan from U.S.-led forces today, assuming control of 12,000 American troops and extending its military role to the ent...
NAIROBI, Kenya — An elephant trampled and killed a British man on his honeymoon in Kenya.
Patrick Smith, 34, was killed in front of his wife, Julie, in the Masai Mara Na...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — American Roger Kornberg, whose father won a Nobel Prize a half-century ago, was awarded the prize in chemistry today for his studies of how cells tak...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Americans John Mather and George Smoot won the 2006 Nobel Prize in physics today for work that helped cement the big-bang theory of the universe and ...
They discover way to 'turn off' genes
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Americans Andrew Fire and Craig Mello won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine today for discovering a way ...
He was blown up in the caves of Tora Bora. He was on dialysis and dying of kidney disease. He was in the hands of Pakistani intelligence and about to be turned over to t...
Cyst floats out of the patient
MERIGNAC, France — A small, pink object floated near the hands of surgeons who were removing a cyst from a man's arm. One of the doctors, s...
BAGHDAD, Iraq — The second ranking U.S. military commander in Iraq said Wednesday that it is imperative to disarm militias, but that the Iraqi government must decide whe...
