A man brings a child wounded in a twin car bomb attack to al-Kindi hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday. Two car bombs in quick succession struck a market in a mainly Shi...
$10.6B sought from Congress
BRUSSELS, Belgium — The Bush administration plans to ask Congress for $10.6 billion for Afghanistan, a major increase aimed at rebuilding the ...
Al-Maliki says more planned
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's prime minister told parliament today Iraqi security sweep in the capital would not be the last battle against militants...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Emiliano Mercado del Toro was born when Puerto Rico was still a Spanish colony and trained as a soldier the year World War I ended.
On Wednesday,...
Climate change partly to blame
BANGKOK, Thailand — Nearly half of the world's waterbird species are in decline, mostly due to rapid economic development and the effects o...
They were shot in head
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Four of the five Americans killed when a U.S. security company's helicopter crashed in a dangerous Sunni neighborhood in central Ba...
Museum depicts difficulty of life
HANOI, Vietnam — A bowl of noodle soup for breakfast was beyond the dreams of most people back in the days before Vietnam's economic ref...
President faces rape charges
JERUSALEM — Israeli President Moshe Katsav asked parliament today to temporarily remove him from office after Israel's attorney general recom...
BAGHDAD — The U.S. military in Baghdad said today it was investigating what appeared to be the crash of a civilian aircraft after reports a helicopter was shot down over...
Violence in Iraq escalates
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Five people were killed when two bombs struck separate Shiite targets in Baghdad today, a day after a double car bombing tore t...
