Boycott threat made by Sunnis
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's National Assembly voted today to reverse last-minute changes it had made to rules for next week's referendum on a new...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Americans Robert H. Grubbs and Richard R. Schrock and Yves Chauvin of France won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for discoveries that let indu...
SANGJU, South Korea - Kim Byung-sul was badly injured but all he could think of was his wife. She too had fallen under the crush of 20,000 people scrambling for seats at...
Al-Qaida target of 2nd offensive
HAQLANIYAH, Iraq - Some 2,500 U.S. troops along with Iraqi forces launched their second major offensive in western Iraq in a week today, ...
Optics, laser work earns shared prize
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Americans John L. Hall and Roy J. Glauber and German Theodor W. Haensch have won the 2005 Nobel Prize in physics...
Bacteria found in ulcer study
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Australians Barry Marshall and Robin Warren have won the 2005 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for showing that bac...
KOROLYOV, Russia - A Russian Soyuz spacecraft docked at the international space station today, delivering American millionaire scientist Gregory Olsen and a new Russian-...
3-day sweep kills 36 rebels
QAIM, Iraq - A U.S. offensive aimed at al-Qaida in Iraq insurgents in western Iraq entered its third day today, with airstrikes in a town on t...
Southeast Asia is on terror alert
BALI, Indonesia - Investigators hunting for the masterminds of three suicide bombings on the popular resort island of Bali hoped to quic...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - In a case that shocked South Africa for its brutality, a white farmer was sentenced to life in prison Friday for the murder of one of his bl...
