BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's electoral commission today certified the results of the country's Jan. 30 elections and allocated 140 National Assembly seats to the United Iraqi ...
SAN`A, Yemen - A suspected member of al-Qaida has turned himself in to the authorities and confessed to planning terror attacks against Western embassies in the Yemeni c...
KALMUNAI, Sri Lanka - "Baby 81," the infant claimed by nine couples after he miraculously survived the tsunami, was reunited with his parents today in the joyous conclus...
Leaders meet in Baghdad
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Members of the winning Shiite political alliance gathered at the home of the ticket leader to discuss the new government today, as...
Several reports of 'flying objects'
TEHRAN, Iran - The United States has been flying spy drones over Iran's nuclear sites, Intelligence Minister Ali Yunesi said today, re...
U.S. has refused to ratify accord
KYOTO, Japan - The Kyoto global warming pact went into force today, seven years after it was negotiated, imposing limits on emissions of...
Army chief leaves before withdrawal
JERUSALEM - Israel's hardline defense minister unexpectedly cut short the term of his outspoken army chief, with a new commander to ta...
About 100,000 attend funeral
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Screaming and weeping Lebanese clambered around an ambulance carrying the body of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri as hun...
Lebanon mourns slain former leader
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Lebanon plunged into deep mourning and put its army on alert against violence today, a day after a massive bomb kille...
SHENYANG, China - Rescue crews were searching today for coal miners missing nearly 800 feet underground after a gas explosion in China's northeast killed 203 people in t...
