NAIROBI, Kenya — Sister Leonella, a nun who devoted her life to helping the sick in Africa, used to joke there was a bullet with her name engraved on it in Somalia. When...
Al-Qaida warns war will go on
CAIRO, Egypt — al-Qaida in Iraq warned Pope Benedict XVI on Monday that its war against Christianity and the West will go on until Islam tak...
WASHINGTON — The spotlight returns to Iraq and other problem areas of the Middle East as President Bush heads to the United Nations to address a host of global issues fa...
Benedict says he is 'sorry'
VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI said Sunday that he is "deeply sorry" his remarks on Islam and violence offended Muslims, but the unusual exp...
PARIS — Al-Qaida has, for the first time, announced a union with an Algerian insurgent group that has designated France as an enemy, saying they will act together agains...
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey's ruling Islamic-rooted party joined a wave of criticism of Pope Benedict XVI today, accusing him of trying to revive the spirit of the Crusades ...
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Car bombs and drive-by shootings today killed at least 17 people — including two U.S. soldiers — in a series of attacks around central Iraq, officials sa...
MONTREAL — A young man in a black trench coat and a mohawk haircut opened fire Wednesday at a Montreal college, slaying a woman and wounding at least 19 other people bef...
Police evacuate students Wednesday during a shooting at Dawson College in Montreal. Kimveer Gill, 25, of Laval, near Montreal, opened fire in the college's cafeteria, ki...
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Police found the bodies of 65 men who had been tortured, shot and dumped, most around Baghdad, while car bombs, mortar attacks and shootings killed at le...
