Says group isn't police of world
BRUSSELS - The expanding NATO alliance can be a bulwark for freedom without playing policeman to the world, Secretary of State Condoleezz...
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday that Israel has agreed to remove major roadblocks as part of its withdrawal from five West Bank tow...
U.S. cardinal fills in for ill pontiff
VATICAN CITY - Ailing Pope John Paul II missed out on the Ash Wednesday prayers that ushered in the solemn and sacred Lenten season...
BRUSSELS - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice put Iran on notice today that it cannot use a European diplomatic initiative to delay indefinitely accountability for a su...
Men made to keep it short
SEOUL, South Korea - The order to shaggy-haired North Korean men couldn't be clearer: Get a trim like Kim.
The reclusive communist country is wa...
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - The United Nations said governments have provided little more than a third of the aid they pledged to tsunami-hit nations and warned that it need...
Girl born with legs connected
LIMA, Peru - Milagros Cerron smiles, babbles and fidgets in the arms of her mother like any healthy nine-month-old, but she is no ordinary b...
Resignation still possible
ROME - A top Vatican official responded to a sensitive question that many Roman Catholics have been asking for a while: Would ailing Pope John ...
Insurgents take aim at recruits
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents targeted Iraqis signing up for the country's security forces for a second straight day today, killing up to 14 ...
Israel, Palestine summit begins
SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas declared today that their people would st...
