2,200 firms paid Saddam
UNITED NATIONS — About half of the 4,500 companies in the U.N. oil-for-food program paid $1.8 billion in kickbacks and illicit surcharges to Sadd...
Catholic officials at heart of sex scandal
DUBLIN, Ireland — Former bishops, police and state agencies did far too little to prevent the alleged sexual abuse of more than...
Tourists pour out of Cancun
CANCUN, Mexico — By bus and charter flights, thousands of tourists streamed out of this Caribbean resort city that was pounded by Hurricane Wi...
TOKYO — The United States accepted a Japanese proposal for the relocation of a U.S. air station on Okinawa today, resolving a dispute that had blocked progress on milita...
Explosives found in Afghan capital
KABUL, Afghanistan — Militants attacked security forces on two sides of Kabul, killing seven people in some of the deadliest attacks ne...
LISSA, Nigeria — Nigeria said Monday it had requested help from the United States to determine what caused an airliner to slam into the ground, killing all 117 people ab...
Sunnis fail to block passage
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's landmark constitution was adopted fairly by a majority of voters during the country's Oct. 15 referendum, as Sunni Ara...
U.S. death toll reaches 1,999
SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq — A suicide car bomb exploded near a regional government ministry in a predominantly Kurdish province of Sulaimaniyah on ...
LISSA, Nigeria — Investigators searched the still-smoldering wreckage of a jetliner that slammed into the Nigerian bush, seeking flight-data recorders and other clues Mo...
Deadly virus has spread to Europe
LONDON — Britain confirmed its first case of bird flu since 1992, saying the virus that killed a parrot in quarantine is the same deadly...
