TEL AVIV, Israel - Former Israeli President Ezer Weizman, a political moderate who pioneered contacts with Palestinian leaders and helped bring about the Jewish state's ...
Trip comes amid war talk
NANJING, China - Taiwan's opposition leader arrived in China today for the highest-level visit by a Taiwanese political figure since the two side...
2 were raised in anti-Nazi household
REGENSBURG, Germany - After 81 years, the Rev. Georg Ratzinger thought he had lived through as much as a man could in a lifetime. He ...
Military had been in place since 1976
MASNAA, Lebanon - Syria's 29-year military presence in Lebanon ended today when Syrian soldiers flashing victory signs crossed back ...
AMAGASAKI, Japan - Rescuers pulled two survivors from the gnarled wreckage of Japan's worst train crash in decades today, and investigators raided the rail operator's of...
Politicians still squabbling
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi politicians tried again today to end a nearly three-month deadlock over forming a new transitional government, and the ...
BRASILIA, Brazil - Ecuador's former president began a life in exile in Brazil with his countrymen still arguing over whether his ouster was legal and a close ally predic...
AMAGASAKI, Japan - A packed commuter train jumped the tracks in western Japan today and rammed into an apartment complex, crumpling passenger cars into twisted metal. At...
Wants to build new friendship
VATICAN CITY - A day after reaching out to other Christians and to Jews in his installation Mass, Pope Benedict XVI met today with members o...
China welcomes former opponent
TAIPEI, Taiwan - The leader of Taiwan's biggest opposition party would have once been jailed or executed for what he plans to do Tuesday: f...
