Inauguration set for Sunday
VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI said Saturday he hoped to continue the openness with the media fostered by his predecessor and thanked journa...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - The second of three giant parts of Ethiopia's 1,700-year-old Axum obelisk looted by Benito Mussolini's troops was welcomed home Friday.
The first...
LONDON - A British judge sentenced a Muslim scholar to 13 years in prison Friday after he admitted conspiring with shoebomber Richard Reid to blow up a trans-Atlantic je...
Speech marked 5th anniversary
HAVANA - Elian Gonzalez, the young Cuban castaway whose international custody battle ended in his dramatic seizure from a Miami home five ye...
Chinese official dismisses remarks
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Japan's prime minister apologized today for his country's World War II aggression in Asia but a Chinese official d...
It caps violent week in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A car bomb exploded today at a Shiite mosque in the capital, killing eight people and wounding 20, police said.
Meanwhile, a ...
Saudi Arabian police inspect burned-out vehicles Thursday following a clash between Islamic militants and Saudi security forces in Mecca, Islam's holiest city. Two milit...
MADRID, Spain - Twenty-four Muslim men went on trial today as suspected members of an al-Qaida cell accused of using Spain as a staging ground to plot the Sept. 11 terro...
A nun peeks out of a window to look at Pope Benedict XVI in Rome. The pontiff left Vatican City for a short time Thursday for a quick visit to his former home just outsi...
No shakeup in Vatican's top officials
VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI confirmed Cardinal Angelo Sodano in the Vatican's No. 2 post today and kept all other top officials...
