1 soldier, 2 Afghan civilians wounded
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A suspected suicide bomber detonated explosives in a car near a U.S. military convoy today in the southern A...
He claims they expelled Jews
TEHRAN, Iran — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's hard-line president who has said the Holocaust was a myth, now has charged that European countries...
Price dispute affects Europe
MOSCOW — Russia's natural gas monopoly halted sales to Ukraine in a price dispute Sunday and began reducing pressure in transmission lines th...
Fuel crisis sparks long lines in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Two more U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq as the year wound down Friday, putting the American military death toll a...
PALU, Indonesia — A bomb ripped through an Indonesian meat market crowded with people shopping for New Year's celebrations Saturday, killing at least eight people and wo...
Officials say he's lucky to be alive
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Maybe it was the time the taxi dumped him at the Iraq-Kuwait border, leaving him alone in the middle of the desert. O...
3 countries face drought
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Drought has triggered extreme food shortages in three East African countries, putting millions of people at risk of famin...
CAIRO, Egypt — Egyptian police turned water cannons on Sudanese war refugees and beat them with sticks today, brutally clearing out a squatters camp in a city park. At l...
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea's leading university said today that researcher Hwang Woo-suk did not produce stem cells individually tailored to patients as he claimed...
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Sunni Arab and secular groups refused today to open discussions with the Shiite religious bloc leading in Iraq's parliamentary elections until a full rev...