A state-run news agency says 20 people are trapped after a coal mine flooded in central China.

Hundreds of people fled this waterlogged city Saturday for higher ground as powerful Hurricane Ike threatened to unleash heavy rain and compound a disaster caused by a...

As of Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008, at least 4,155 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press...

Thousands of Armenians lined the streets of the capital Saturday to protest the first-ever visit by a Turkish leader and to demand that Turkey acknowledge the World War...

A Honduran court has sentenced a former prison official to 1,051 years in jail for the deaths of 69 people in a 2003 prison massacre.

The following are some of the major challenges facing Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of slain ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who was elected Pakistan’s...

A suicide car bomber blasted an outdoor market Saturday in a northern Iraqi city, killing six people and wounding 54, police and hospital authorities said.

Melissa Schwab is no Zionist zealot. She’s not an Orthodox Jew seeking to be nearer to God. She didn’t flee anti-Semitism.

A pickup truck packed with explosives blew up a police security checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan Saturday, killing at least 17 people and injuring 80, the day after...

Pakistan’s military says 24 people have been killed after residents of a village in the volatile northwest foiled a militant kidnap attempt, then were attacked.

Spain’s labor minister has backtracked from a much criticized proposal to drastically slash the number of work visas available to migrant workers.

The dead body of an unidentified woman was found curled up in a suitcase in a Tokyo hotel room, a day after the foul smell of her body prompted the evacuation of dozens...

A suicide bomb attack by a fake beggar inside a regional prosecutor’s office and a shoot-out between police and Taliban militants killed 15 people in Afghanistan...

Angolan election officials extended voting by a day in the capital, but said Saturday the logistical problems that marred the first balloting in 16 years were confined...

A Hamas official says the militant group promises to deliver a letter to captured Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit from his father.

Nations that supply nuclear material and technology overcame fierce obstacles Saturday and approved a landmark U.S. plan to engage in atomic trade with India _ a deal...

Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua returned to the West African country Saturday after more than two weeks in Saudi Arabia, where he reportedly spent a lengthy...

A pickup truck packed with a large amount of explosives blew up a security checkpoint in Pakistan’s volatile northwest Saturday, killing at least 13 people and...

The flagship of the U.S. Navy’s Mediterranean fleet has delivered 17 tons of humanitarian aid to a strategic Georgian port _ and Russian troops have been watching...

Delegates at 45-nation talks say they have approved a contentious U.S. plan to sell peaceful nuclear material technology to India.