Thousands of people living near a lake and a river in China's quake-hit southwestern province of Sichuan are being evacuated for fear of...

A senior Chinese military officer has assured the public that all the nuclear facilities in the earthquake-hit areas are safe and...

Chinese President Hu Jintao has thanked foreign countries and aid volunteers for helping China cope with last week's massive...

US President George Bush has arrived in Egypt to talk to assembled Arab leaders about Middle East...

Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa has said he will step down from office if it is proved that his government backed the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, otherwise known as...

More than a thousand arrests have been made in an Iraqi city, after an offensive by the...

Foreign aid workers have been briefly admitted to an area of Myanmar, which was hit by Cyclone Nagris at the beginning of the...

Veteran Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy was taken to hospital Saturday amid symptoms of a possible stroke, the television news network CNN...

In a slum town in Johannesburg, South Africans have once again attacked foreign residents....

SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt - Israel got glowing praise from President Bush earlier this week. On Sunday, the Arab world got a stern lecture, on the need to spread freedoms and isolate state sponsors of...

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) -- Attempting to lay a symbolic claim to his party's presidential nomination, Democrat Barack Obama will mark the latest round of primary voting with a rally in Iowa, where his...

Iraqi police found the bullet-riddled Quran with graffiti inside the cover on a small-arms range near a police station in Radwaniyah, a former insurgent stronghold west of Baghdad, U.S. military...

Pensioner's Party faction chairman Yitzhak Galanti warned Sunday that if the party established by three MKs who broke away from his party is approved by the Knesset, the move may result in Hezbollah...

BEICHUAN, China (AP) -- China declared three days of national mourning for earthquake victims and ordered a suspension of the Olympic torch relay, as the search for survivors of the disaster grew...

Trainer Rick Dutrow Jr., who called his shot at both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, sounded nearly as confident after Big Brown came back full of run after putting away the field of 11 with...

The gunman walked away after the shooting but was quickly grabbed by bystanders, one of whom was an off-duty Burbank police officer. Another off-duty officer, from Los Angeles, produced handcuffs and...

The long-awaited new Indiana Jones movie will receive its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival later. Stars Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett and Shia LaBoeuf will join Steven Spielberg and...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- A top U.N envoy headed for Myanmar on Sunday to plead with the junta to accept more international aid for its cyclone survivors, amid mounting fears of starvation deaths,...

A man and two women died when their car was in collison with another vehicle and burst into flames. Emergency crews were called to the A495, near the Narrow Boat pub, between Ellesmere and...

Police are urging villagers to help them piece together the events leading up to a suspicious garage fire in which a 14-year-old boy died. Firefighters found the body of Daniel Allan in Chestnut...

Afghan security forces have rescued two foreign contractors who were kidnapped near the western city of Herat almost a month ago, officials have said. The intelligence chief in Herat, Habib Habib,...

Bollywood mega superstar Amitabh Bachchan has pooh-poohed the reports in a section of the press that he had been paid Rs 115 crore by server ''bigadda.com'' to write his...

STEHEKIN, Wash. (AP) - The Federal Aviation Administration says at least two people were killed Saturday in Washington when a float plane carrying six or seven people crashed into Lake Chelan. FAA...

ALUVA, Kerala: The authorities today sent the gunpowder for examination following yesterday's incident in which the self-claimed godman Himaval Maheswara Bhadrananda created a flutter by attempting...

BEICHUAN, China (AP) -- The search for survivors in the rubble of China's powerful earthquake grew bleak Sunday, with rescuers in some areas no longer listening for trapped...

Aid agencies were not convinced, and international outrage mounted over Myanmar's handling of the crisis. Save the Children, a global aid agency, said Sunday that thousands of young children face...

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Feuding Lebanese factions meeting in Qatar for high-level talks in the country's 18-month political crisis are trading...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- John McCain is 71 years old, and his age has provided late-night comics with some easy punch lines. On "Saturday Night Live," he joined...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An American soldier has been sent home from Iraq after a copy of the Koran was found pocked with bullet holes at a shooting range near Baghdad, the U.S. military said on...

Bush planned to use a speech to Arab leaders at an economic forum in Sharm el-Sheikh on Sunday to insist that he "firmly believes" a Middle East peace deal can be reached this year -- a deadline...

"The scientists I speak to are committed to what they see as an inherently moral endeavour, that can save and improve the lives of thousands and over time, millions," he said. Labour MPs have been...

Thousands of people are expected to gather in Cardiff Bay later to welcome home Cardiff City footballers after their FA Cup final loss. In their first appearance in the tournament's final since...

The funeral of motorcycle legend Robert Dunlop is due to take place in his home town of Ballymoney later. Dunlop was killed in a high-speed crash during a practice lap for the 250cc North West 200...

DONGHEKOU, China - Two rivers blocked by landslides threatened to flood towns shattered by China's massive earthquake, sending thousands of survivors fleeing Saturday in a region still staggering...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar's junta kept a French navy ship laden with aid waiting outside its maritime border on Saturday, and showed off neatly laid out state relief camps to...

Bush is presenting Middle Eastern leaders with a long to-do list on Sunday: bring about freer economic markets, enact political reforms that move toward democratic governments, allow greater...

LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) -- Six cars of a freight train derailed Saturday, causing a hydrochloric acid leak that forced thousands of people to leave homes, businesses and a nursing home within one mile of...

Barack Obama have begun private talks aimed at merging the two candidates' teams, not waiting for the Democratic nominating process to end before they start preparations for a hard-fought fall...

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan and debutant Anushka Sharma faced the camera for the 'mahurat' of the film at Filmcity in suburban Mumbai on Friday. SRK had a good run at the box-office in 2007...

Ashlee Simpson, Pete Wentz get married Saturday at the home of Simpson's parents Singer-actress Jessica Simpson, Ashlee's sister, was maid of honor Wedding featured "Alice in Wonderland"...

Spanish police arrest 5 hackers who allegedly disabled government Web sites Internet pages believed to be run by governments in U.S., Latin America, Asia Group's techniques are to infiltrate Web...

NEW: Thousands of young children face acute malnourishment, group says Myanmar's ruling junta takes international diplomats on tour of refugee camps French naval ship carrying aid awaits Myanmar...

One person killed, 22 injured after bus overturns on Mojave Desert freeway Bus drifted across several lanes and into median, according to witnesses Cause of crash is not yet...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - India's foreign minister travels to Pakistan this week for his first meeting with leaders of a new civilian government and to review a peace process that has been in the...

Trainer Rick Dutrow Jr., who called his shot at both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, sounded nearly as confident after Big Brown came back full of run after putting away the field of 11 with...

In all, three of the five students shot dead received posthumous degrees on Saturday. Families of the other two said they would accept degrees...

Andrew Kimball, president and CEO of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp., a not-for-profit that manages the city-owned site, said current plans call for spending $250 million in public and...

When a gunshot-riddled Quran is found, a tenuous partnership is threatened U.S. military officers apologize to authorities, citizens in Iraqi village The local sheikhs accept apology and their...

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi say in meetings the war in Iraq must end Female, apparently in teens, blows herself up Al Qaeda in Iraq increasingly sending out female suicide bombers Iraqi security...

(CNN) -- Dominican Republic President Leonel Fernandez, who led the island nation out of dire economic times, was re-elected to a third term on Saturday, according to election...