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...
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...
