VATICAN CITY — A U.S. judge in Texas dismissed Pope Benedict XVI from a civil lawsuit accusing him of conspiracy to cover up the sexual abuse of minors by a seminarian, ...
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean researcher Hwang Woo-suk resigned from his position as a university professor today after his school said he had damaged the scientific...
About 7,000 might return
FALLUJAH, Iraq — Just days after Iraq's elections, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld today announced the first of what is likely to be a series o...
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Saddam Hussein insisted again today that he had been beaten by his American captors, denouncing Washington's denials as "lies" and mocking President Bush...
KHABAROVSK, Russia — A toxic spill from China reached Khabarovsk today, and the region's governor appealed for calm in the Far Eastern Russian city, where residents have...
CHAKLALA AIR BASE, Pakistan — Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said he doubts that Osama bin Laden is in position to assert full command over the al-Qaida terror networ...
Saddam much calmer today
BAGHDAD, Iraq — A noticeably calmer Saddam Hussein sat quietly in his defendant's chair at the resumption of his trial today, two weeks after he ...
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Sunni Arabs today challenged partial returns from Iraq's parliamentary elections, calling them a "falsification of the will of the people" and saying evi...
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan inaugurated its first popularly elected parliament in more than three decades today, a major step toward democracy following the ouster ...
CAIRO, Egypt — An extremist group posted a video on a Web site today showing a man being shot in the back of the head, and the group claimed the victim was American advi...
