Iraqi capital hit by rash of attacks
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Nearly 40 people died in a rash of car bombings in Iraq's capital over a 12-hour span, including two coordinated blas...
KABUL, Afghanistan - American warplanes pounded a suspected Taliban safe haven in southern Afghanistan in an assault that left about 60 insurgents and five policeman dea...
MOSCOW - A joint Russian-U.S. project to launch a solar sail space vehicle crashed back to Earth when the booster rocket's engine failed less than two minutes after take...
New pontiff is prolific author
ROME - Pope Benedict XVI rails against Europe in his first book published since becoming pope, chastising a culture that he says excludes G...
Mzoudi was acquitted in Germany
AGADIR, Morocco - Abdelghani Mzoudi fell into the arms of his sobbing mother as he emerged into the airport's arrival terminal Tuesday, se...
BRUSSELS, Belgium - The new Iraqi government must improve security, open up its economy and "open political space for all members of Iraqi society who reject violence," ...
Disc jockey held in Aruba
ORANJESTAD, Aruba - A disc jockey on a party boat who was the fourth person detained in the disappearance of an Alabama teenager appeared before...
MANILA, Philippines - Cardinal Jaime Sin, one of Asia's most prominent religious leaders and a key figure in the "people power" revolts that ousted two Philippine presid...
100 are wounded in Kurdish city
IRBIL, Iraq - A suicide car bomber killed 20 traffic policemen and wounded 100 today outside the unit's headquarters in this northern Kurd...
KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan intelligence officials have thwarted a plot to assassinate U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad and arrested three Pakistanis, two senior governm...
