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...
MOSCOW — A methane gas explosion in a Siberian coal mine today killed at least nine miners, a Russian emergency official said.
At least two other miners were injured by ...
Heinz closes England plant
LONDON — More than 100 years of British tradition came to an end Friday as the final bottle of HP brown sauce — a popular alternative to ketchu...
FRANKFURT, Germany — It may trail the historic impact of Charles Lindbergh's 1927 solo flight across the Atlantic, but the Spirit of St. Louis also did not have a wingsp...
Armani, an Italian greyhound, yawns while waiting for the start of the St. Patrick's Day parade in Montreal on Sunday. Similar parades were held around the United States...
Problems pile up during trip
MERIDA, Mexico — President Bush's trip to sunny Latin America was no day at the beach. He was buffeted by complaints about immigration laws, ...
