Polish woman newest hostage
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A militant group in Iraq posted a brutal scene on an Islamic militant Web site: the deaths of 11 Iraqi soldiers, executed one ...
Palestinian leaders fighting over job
JERUSALEM - Yasser Arafat's latest health crisis - a severe flu, gallstones, a battery of cancer tests - has exposed how unprepared ...
Quotes from people around the world on the U.S. presidential race between President Bush and Democratic challenger John Kerry.
"It does not matter who wins, but Bush mus...
Karzai gains 55% of votes
KABUL, Afghanistan - An investigation of alleged fraud in Afghanistan's presidential election was winding down Wednesday, officials said, with n...
Militants demand prisoner release
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi extremists in videotape aired today by Al-Jazeera television showed what they said was a Polish woman hostage held...
There appear to be two periods of time when the 377 tons of high explosives missing from a military facility in Iraq could have been moved or stolen - in the weeks befor...
Some governments that, for reasons economic, political or strategic, have a particularly high stake in the outcome of the U.S. presidential election.
ISRAEL:
Prime Minis...
RAMALLAH, West Bank - An ailing Yasser Arafat performed Muslim prayers before dawn today and ate a light breakfast, but his condition remained serious and Israeli securi...
Americans taking advantage of trips
LONDON - When Janet Robinson flew in from New York on a business trip this week, she added an extra, unusual appointment to her schedu...
Countries try to sway race for president
PARIS - At crunch time in U.S. presidential elections, the perennial swing state of Ohio gets plenty of attention, blitzed by the...
