The U.S. and Iraq are close to a deal to keep U.S. troops in this country next year but it will take "bold political decisions" to overcome the final hurdles, Iraq's foreign minister said Tuesday.
A small asteroid was headed for a fiery but harmless dive into Earth's atmosphere early Tuesday morning over Africa, astronomers said in a first of its kind advance warning.
MIAMI | Fairgoers at a central Florida carnival caught a 2-year-old girl whose mother was forced to drop her after they were stranded 30 feet off the ground on a ride.
JERUSALEM | Three Israeli security figures said Monday they were duped into taking part in a video supporting Barack Obama.
PARIS | The son of a former French president, an Israeli-Russian billionaire and a tycoon with ties to Arizona’s jet set were among 42 defendants who went on trial Monday, accused of trafficking arms to Angola, money laundering and kickbacks.
BAGHDAD | Eleven members of an Iraqi family were killed Sunday in a U.S. raid in Mosul, including three women and three children, officials said.
Isolated shootings in Brazil soured Sunday's municipal elections that President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's allies hope will give them a leg up on 2010's presidential vote.
Five state police officers were arrested Sunday in connection with the deaths of four villagers during a raid on protesters who had seized the entrance of a Mayan archaeological site.
JERUSALEM | In Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, where the rule of law sometimes takes a back seat to the rule of God, zealots are on a campaign to stamp out behavior they consider unchaste.
SEOUL, South Korea | The rumors and speculation surrounding the health of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il continue to swirl.
BEIJING | Everyone needs some chicken soup for the soul — even pandas. The Wuhan Zoo in central China has been feeding its two pandas home-cooked chicken soup to reduce stress and give them a nutritional boost, a zoo official said.
ANKARA, Turkey | Fighting between Kurdish rebels and Turkey’s army and air force in southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq killed 15 soldiers and 23 insurgents, the military said Saturday.
SUZHOU, China | She’s around 80 years old. He’s 100. Breathless scientists watched as the world’s most endangered turtles successfully mated.
MADHU, Sri Lanka | There are no worshippers at Sri Lanka’s holiest Christian shrine. The cherished statue of the Virgin Mary in the pale yellow church gazes out onto emptiness. The two villages nearby are abandoned. Everyone has fled for safety deep into rebel territory, disappearing into the black hole of Sri Lanka’s civil war.
BAGHDAD | As violence in Iraq recedes, neighboring states are pondering how to deal with an unwieldy country that could re-emerge as a key player in the region.
Italian troops manned checkpoints and checked vehicles as they deployed Saturday in a crime-ridden, mob-plagued southern area of the country where six Africans were gunned down last month.
There have been four failed pirate attacks in the last 24 hours off the lawless Somali coast despite the presence of six American warships guarding a hijacked ship full of weapons, a U.S. navy spokeswoman said Saturday.
MERIDA, Mexico | Placido Domingo’s concert at the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza tonight is being billed as “the world’s greatest tenor at one of the seven wonders of the modern world.”
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti | The official death toll from four storms that ravaged Haiti this summer has nearly doubled to some 800 people, authorities said Friday.
MOGADISHU, Somalia | Help for hundreds of thousands of Somalis is in jeopardy, two Western aid groups said Friday after Islamic insurgents forced one to suspend some operations and threatened the other.
A planned multibillion dollar U.S. arms sale to Taiwan threatens China's national security and has cast a pall over military relations between Beijing and Washington, the foreign ministry said Tuesday.
Sri Lanka's top opposition party called Tuesday for an international investigation into a bomb attack the previous day that killed a popular former army general and 26 others.
The U.S. military says an American soldier has been fatally shot by an al-Qaida in Iraq extremist. An Iraqi policeman was also killed in the fighting.
Copenhagen Airports will build a new 200 million kroner ($26.4 million) terminal for low-cost airlines.
One man has died in a car explosion in the Thai capital of Bangkok that occurred amid anti-government riots.
Russia's foreign minister says the country's arms sales to Venezuela are meant for defensive purposes.
An armed man in a jealous rage took 42 hostages in a Guatemala City call center on Monday and released them unharmed and turned himself to police after a five-hour standoff, police said.
The United States and North Korea are being flexible in their effort to reach a compromise to resolve the dispute in the North's nuclear disarmament process, South Korea's foreign minister said Tuesday.
Tropical Storm Marco was closing in on Mexico's coast early Tuesday and threatened to hit with near-hurricane strength winds later in the day.
The United States will continue its troop presence in Kosovo until at least late next year, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said just before he arrived here Tuesday, reaffirming U.S. support for the newly declared nation in the face of stern opposition from Russia.
Schools, businesses and government offices reopened Tuesday and vehicles were back on the streets in Indian Kashmir as authorities lifted a two-day curfew in the troubled Himalayan region.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's Cabinet voted Tuesday to extend Germany's military mission in Afghanistan for 14 months, a German official said.
Vladimir Putin is out on video as a judo expert.
Some 7,000 workers and trade unionists have marched around the Romanian parliament to demand higher salaries and better working conditions.
U.S. and Afghan troops clashed and called airstrikes on a group of insurgents in southern Afghanistan, killing 43 militants, the U.S. military said Tuesday.
Tropical Storm Marco was closing in on Mexico's coast early Tuesday and threatened to hit with near-hurricane strength winds later in the day.
The U.N. food agency is resuming free breakfasts for hundreds of thousands of poor Cambodian schoolchildren after securing new funds for a program suspended due to high food prices, the agency said Tuesday.
The U.S. and Iraq are close to a deal to keep U.S. troops in this country next year but it will take "bold political decisions" to overcome the final hurdles, Iraq's foreign minister said Tuesday.
Two Japanese citizens and a Japanese-born American won the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics for discoveries in the world of subatomic physics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday.
A Thai official says Deputy Prime Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh has tendered his resignation to take responsibility for violent clashes outside Parliament between police and protesters.
