Japan retaliates for American levies
TOKYO - Japan will slap 15 percent levies on U.S. steel imports starting Sept. 1 in retaliation for American steel industry protectio...
Deadline for charter Aug. 15
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Bowing to intense U.S. pressure, the head of the commission writing Iraq's new constitution agreed today to stick to the Aug....
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia's King Fahd, who moved his country closer to the United States but ruled the world's largest oil producing nation in name only since ...
VATICAN CITY - For someone who joked that becoming pope was like having a guillotine fall on him, Benedict XVI has plunged enthusiastically into the job, reaching out to...
SINGAPORE - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has beaten 99 female heads of state, chief executives and celebrities to top Forbes magazine's list of the world's most p...
BOMBAY, India - The discovery of more bodies pushed the death toll from this week's monsoon floods in Bombay to more than 850 on Saturday, with officials warning it will...
But some in Belfast skeptical
BELFAST, Northern Ireland - For Robert Smith, a carpet salesman in one of Belfast's roughest Protestant neighborhoods, the latest peace pled...
British officials ask Italians to extradite man jailed in Rome
LONDON - British police were questioning suspects Saturday in hopes of learning who recruited and supported...
Political calm not the answer
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Six months after Iraq's historic election, the country is on the verge of another political breakthrough, the successful wri...
Doll linked disease to cigarette smoke
LONDON - Sir Richard Doll, the British scientist who first established a link between smoking and lung cancer, died Sunday. He was ...
