UPDATE: Rescue ahead of schedule; some miners may leave hospital tomorrow
Mine officials in Chile believe they might be able to free the all of the 33 miners by midnight.
Mine officials in Chile believe they might be able to free the all of the 33 miners by midnight.
Chile's Mining Minister says the first trapped miner is expected to be lifted to the surface late Tuesday after more than two months below ground.
Two explosions have killed at least eight people and wounded many others in Kandahar in southern Afghanistan, where international forces are pushing into areas long held by the Taliban.
Judicial officials say an Algerian court has acquitted two recent converts to Christianity on trial for offending Islam by eating lunch during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
The search for a pair of missing American balloonists has entered its final day with a robotic vehicle scanning the seabed of the Adriatic sea for any remains.
New York (AP) - President Barack Obama says U.S. troops will stay in Afghanistan ``until the job is done.''
Britain has raised its terror alert, saying the threat of violence from Irish dissidents has risen to a point where an attack is “a strong possibility.”
A Nigerian airline spokesman says the body of an apparent stowaway was found inside the wheel well of an aircraft that originated in South Africa.
Britain's advertising watchdog has banned an Italian ice cream ad featuring a pregnant nun, saying it causes offense to Catholics.
The World Health Organization has slashed its estimate for the number of maternal deaths worldwide each year to 358,000.
France's National Assembly has approved a broad retirement reform plan including a highly contested measure to increase the retirement age from 60 to 62.
Pakistan's president says his nation's intelligence services are willing to cooperate closer with Afghanistan against Taliban militants.
An international rights group says prisoners in Senegal are routinely abused and the perpetrators rarely face punishment.
Widespread anger in France over a proposal to raise the retirement age has spilled into the streets, disrupting trains and planes, hospitals and mail delivery.
An expert says a mass grave has been discovered in Slovenia containing bodies of about 700 victims killed by antifascists in the wake of World War II.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon says police have captured one of his country's most-wanted criminals and will hunt down the rest of his gang.
Brazilian police say a man has confessed he inserted two needles and a nail into a baby girl's body because her beauty bothered him.
The government of southern Sudan says they are purging child soldiers from the ranks of its former rebel army.
Fidel Castro says he “was at death's door” after falling ill four years ago, but has recovered and been gaining strength since.
Iran says it has set a 2020 target date to build its first experimental nuclear fusion reactor, a feat that has yet to be achieved by any nation.
Mexico's federal police agency says it has fired nearly 10 percent of its force this year for failing lie detector and other tests.
The Red Cross says nearly 15,000 people are still missing from the wars fought in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
Violence targeting politicians and their aides appears to be increasing in northern Nigeria as next year's elections draws closer.
Iran's hardline media have called French First Lady Carla Bruni a “prostitute” after she expressed strong support for an Iranian woman facing death by stoning for adultery.
India says it won't ban Blackberry services for at least 60 days, easing up on the threat leveled over access to encrypted data.
