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...
Suicide bomb wounds 114
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A car bomb exploded near a police station in Baghdad early this morning as dozens of Iraqis were applying to join the force, killi...
BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. warplanes pounded a suspected hideout of al-Qaida-linked militants in the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Fallujah today, killing at least 16 people a...
LONDON - A commission seeking to resolve the Anglican Communion's crisis over a homosexual U.S. bishop and other gay issues wrapped up its work Friday and said it would ...
Storm heads for Jamaica
ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada - Hurricane Ivan left Grenada a wasteland of flattened houses, twisted metal and splintered wood and set off a frenzy of loo...
JAKARTA, Indonesia - A powerful car bomb exploded outside the gates of the Australian Embassy in Jakarta today, killing seven people and wounding nearly 100 in an attack...
Bomb set off accidentally
MOSCOW - The militants who raided a school in southern Russia last week were led by a man dubbed the Colonel, who enforced obedience by killing ...
