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...
QAIM, Iraq - About 1,000 U.S. troops, backed by attack helicopters, swarmed into a tiny Iraqi village near the Syrian border Saturday in an offensive aimed at rooting ou...
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Riot police fired tear gas today at thousands of rock-throwing students demonstrating on the eve of drastic fuel price increases, which Indonesia's ...
Thursday toll climbs to 99
BAGHDAD - Elsewhere, in the southern city of Basra, an Iraqi police convoy was ambushed late Thursday, killing four policemen and wounding one,...
'Sea monster' had eluded past observations
TOKYO - When a nearly 20-foot long tentacle was hauled aboard his research ship, Tsunemi Kubodera knew he had something big. Th...
