Referendum vote slated for Saturday
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents determined to derail this weekend's referendum carried out two attacks against Iraq's largest Sunni Arab po...
Survivors unlikely now
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan - Rescuers searching for survivors in the rubble of Pakistan's worst earthquake scaled back operations today, while aid work...
At least 63 people killed in fighting
NALCHIK, Russia - Scores of Islamic militants launched simultaneous attacks on police and government buildings in this city in Russi...
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan - An aftershock jolted parts of Pakistan today, panicking hungry, homeless survivors of last weekend's devastating earthquake and forcing rescuers...
A boy with an open wound on his forehead waits for doctors to attend to him in Balakot, Pakistan, today. With blocked roads, thousands of villagers are arriving daily af...
Playwright wins literature award
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - British playwright Harold Pinter, whose juxtaposition of the brutal and the banal dubbed an adjective that bears his ...
Some Sunnis backing plan
BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. and Iraqi forces stepped up security across Iraq today in an effort to reduce insurgent attacks aimed at wrecking this weeke...
She complains too much, court rules
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - A court has decided enough is enough.
It banned a woman from contacting her daughter's school or teachers bec...
SANTIAGO ATITLAN, Guatemala - Authorities reaching communities previously cut off by floodwaters raised the number of Guatemalans whose homes were damaged, destroyed or ...
Countries help Pakistan victims
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan - Four days after her home crumbled on top of her, rescuers on Wednesday pulled a dust-covered 5-year-old out of th...
