Officials say he's lucky to be alive
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Maybe it was the time the taxi dumped him at the Iraq-Kuwait border, leaving him alone in the middle of the desert. O...
3 countries face drought
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Drought has triggered extreme food shortages in three East African countries, putting millions of people at risk of famin...
CAIRO, Egypt — Egyptian police turned water cannons on Sudanese war refugees and beat them with sticks today, brutally clearing out a squatters camp in a city park. At l...
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea's leading university said today that researcher Hwang Woo-suk did not produce stem cells individually tailored to patients as he claimed...
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Sunni Arab and secular groups refused today to open discussions with the Shiite religious bloc leading in Iraq's parliamentary elections until a full rev...
Sunni protesters continue to claim fraud in elections
BAGHDAD, Iraq — An inmate in a Baghdad prison grabbed an assault rifle from a guard today and opened fire, killing e...
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Israeli jets blasted a Palestinian militant group's base a few miles outside the Lebanese capital Beirut today, hours after rockets fired from Lebanon ...
Leaders ready their troops
KIRKUK, Iraq — Kurdish leaders have inserted more than 10,000 of their militia members into Iraqi army divisions in northern Iraq to lay the gr...
MOSCOW — The head of the Russian parliamentary commission investigating last year's Beslan school siege that left 331 dead said today that local law enforcement official...
LONDON — Terrorists tried to attack London eight times between the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States and last July 7, when suicide bombers killed dozens on the city'...
