Pope Benedict XVI blesses the faithful during an open-air Mass to celebrate Palm Sunday in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. Jerusalem and is that start of the church'...
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Friends and relatives of Shiite Muslims killed in a mosque attack carried their coffins through the streets of several Baghdad neighborhoods today, chant...
He testifies in Saddam case
BAGHDAD, Iraq — A former judge who sentenced 148 Shiites to death under Saddam Hussein's rule in the 1980s told prosecutors in the Saddam tria...
BAGHDAD, Iraq — A car bomb exploded today in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, killing at least 10 people and threatening to heighten sectarian tensions. Shiite politicians...
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela has seized control of oil fields from France's Total SA and Italy's Eni SPA in a show of force against those resisting President Hugo Ch...
He's accused of more genocide
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Saddam Hussein was cross-examined for the first time in his six-month-old trial today, saying he approved death sentences ag...
10 troops die in deadly day
BAGHDAD, Iraq — A bomb exploded outside a Baghdad home early today, killing a woman and two of her young sons. North of the capital, a car bom...
LONDON — Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline PLC reported positive results from the trial of its breast cancer drug Tykerb on Monday and said it will file for regulat...
CANCUN, Mexico — President Bush, closing a three-nation summit Friday, defended requiring secure documents from border-crossing Canadians and pushed Mexico to prevent mo...
RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany — Smiling broadly, journalist Jill Carroll arrived Saturday under U.S. military protection in Germany, the first stop on her return to the Uni...
