Deadline looms for beheading
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Relatives pleaded today for the release of two Americans and a Briton as a deadline loomed for their beheading. In Baghdad, t...
Athletes inspire kids to dream
ATHENS, Greece - People all around the world watch the Olympic Games. But when the Games are held in the city where you live, it gives you ...
MEXICO CITY - They stare down from above at the strangers making their way through a concrete jungle.
This crowded city - where homes rarely have yards and everybody wor...
SAMANA, Dominican Republic - Slow-moving Tropical Storm Jeanne lashed the Dominican Republic on Friday with wind and rain that triggered mudslides and collapsed walls be...
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The United States launched new airstrikes on the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Fallujah and nearby villages today. Iraqi officials said 44 people were de...
Russian leader issues warning
MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin said today the Kremlin was preparing to take preventive action against terrorists, even as a Chechen rebel...
3 lived in upscale Baghdad district
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen abducted two Americans and a Briton today in a brazen attack on a house in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood wher...
TOKYO - The number of Japanese who have lived 100 years or more surged to a record-high 23,038 in 2004 in the world's longest-living country, the government said Tuesday...
Militants release Turkish hostage
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A car bomb exploded in a town south of Baghdad today, killing two people and injuring 10, the latest in a spate of attac...
Palestinians killed during Israeli clash
JERUSALEM - Israel will not follow the U.S.-backed "road map" peace plan and could remain in much of the West Bank for a long tim...
