GUINSAUGON, Philippines — Rescue workers were thwarted today in a last-ditch effort to find an elementary school buried by a devastating landslide when a two-ton drill b...
2 Americans among 15 new selections
VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI named 15 new cardinals today, including John Paul II's longtime private secretary and prelates from B...
Irate Shiites respond with protests, attacks against mosques
SAMARRA, Iraq — A large explosion destroyed the golden dome of one of Iraq's most famous Shiite shrines today...
SAN JUAN DE SABINAS, Mexico — Relatives of 65 Mexican coal miners trapped underground for almost two days by a gas explosion grew increasingly desperate as hopes dimmed ...
Exchange deal part of return
ROME — New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art agreed Monday to return antiquities Italy says were looted in exchange for long-term loans of ot...
Single group can't dominate
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Britain's foreign secretary told Iraqi leaders today they must form a national unity government free of domination by a single...
U.S. Marines dig through mud and rocks during search-and-rescue efforts in the Philippines today. A massive landslide buried the farming village of Guinsaugon Friday. Th...
U.S. won't support sectarian control
BAGHDAD, Iraq — The U.S. ambassador to Iraq warned Iraqi politicians today they risk a loss of American support if they do not establ...
Rescuers dig for survivors
SAN JUAN DE SABINAS, Mexico — Rescue workers were burrowing through debris clogging a Mexican coal mine early today in a desperate effort to re...
Bin Laden says he won't be captured
CAIRO, Egypt — Osama bin Laden promised never to be captured alive and declared the United States had resorted to the same "barbaric" ...
