Dozens killed in reprisals
BAGHDAD, Iraq — A major Sunni Arab bloc today suspended talks with Shiite and Kurdish parties on a new government after scores of Sunni mosques...
Moscow market was snow-covered
MOSCOW — The snow-covered roof of a Moscow market collapsed early today, killing at least 40 people and forcing rescuers to clear away conc...
Officials fear humans at risk
GENEVA — The unprecedented spread of bird flu to 14 more countries in the past three weeks brings the disease closer to millions of people, ...
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Wednesday offered to help finance a Palestinian Authority run by the Hamas militant group, state radio reported.
The secretary of Iran's Supreme N...
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...
