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...
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Stepped-up attacks by insurgents over the last two days have killed at least 44 Iraqis, including 12 laborers — five of them brothers — who were gunned d...
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's interim government said Saturday it will step up security for defense lawyers in Saddam Hussein's trial, after one was abducted and killed by gunm...
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's supreme leader, long a critic of the United States, praised the U.S.-backed constitutional referendum in Iraq as "blessed" Friday and urged Iraqis ...
2 weeks pass without relief
GHANOOL, Pakistan — About 200 desperate people pushed and fought each other for milk, bread and biscuits brought in by mule train today — the ...
Prime minister killed in Feb.
UNITED NATIONS — Top Syrian intelligence officials approved the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and their Leban...
U.S. GIs accused of burning Taliban
KABUL, Afghanistan — The U.S. military and the Afghan government said today they will investigate a TV report that claimed U.S. soldie...
BALAKOT, Pakistan - The death toll soared to 79,000 Wednesday from South Asia's mammoth earthquake, following a survey of one of the two hardest-hit Pakistani regions - ...
MOSCOW — Alexander Yakovlev, who spearheaded former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's political reforms of openness known as glasnost and boldly exposed Communist cri...
Saddam is still hero to some
CAIRO, Egypt - To some, he is a wrongly accused Arab hero. To others, he is the embodiment of evil at last facing justice. As Saddam stood in...
