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...
Ex-leader denounces judge, trial
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Saddam Hussein pleaded innocent to charges of murder and torture as his long-awaited trial began today with the one-time ...
System will aid U.S. scientists
SEOUL, South Korea - A bank that will create and supply new lines of embryonic stem cells for research opened today in Seoul as part of a ...
2 U.S. troops among dead
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents killed eight Iraqis and two coalition soldiers - one American and one British today, in attacks that included a gun ba...
TOKYO - A strong earthquake rocked eastern Japan late today, shaking buildings in Tokyo and nearby areas, but there was no immediate report of injuries or damage.
The ea...
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Saddam Hussein and seven senior members of his 23-year regime go on trial Wednesday to face charges they ordered the 1982 killings of nearly 150 people f...
