Weather Hinders Search For Chinese Earthquake Survivors
The desperate search continues for people buried alive in the rubble and devastation following yesterday's earthquake in China.
The desperate search continues for people buried alive in the rubble and devastation following yesterday's earthquake in China.
The family of a polish social worker credited with rescuing 2,500 jewish children from the Nazis says she has died.
Myanmar is raising the official death toll from a powerful cyclone to nearly 32,000.
The United States has made its first shipment of cyclone relief supplies to Myanmar.
Chinese state media says more than 8,500 have died in Sichuan province alone from a massive earthquake.
The United Nations is blasting Myanmar's military rulers for refusing to let foreign aid workers into the country to help cyclone survivors.
Russia's parliament has overwhelmingly voted to make Vladimir Putin the prime minister.
South Korea has banned 21 Americans convicted of sex crimes against children from entering the country.
The U.S. military is stepping up preparations for a humanitarian mission to Myanmar.
A major international food airlift is finally making its way into myanmar following two days of delays by the country's isolationist government. One plane has landed and the U.N. says three more of its planes will arrive later today.
Two chinese men whose partners were forced to have abortions are asking the U.S. Supreme court to make it easier for them to get asylum.
A war-spending bill that will come before the U.S. house will push the Iraq government to match the U.S. on every dollar it spends on major reconstruction projects.
Officials in Iraq are reporting that three women have been slain in an attack on a brothel in northern Iraq.
As Myanmar deals with the aftermath of a killer cyclone, president Bush today signs a measure awarding the congressional gold medal to that country's leading dissident.
Police say the Austrian incest-imprisonment suspect planned to build his secret cell as early as 1978, when his daughter was just 12 years old.
State radio in Myanmar says the death toll from a weekend cyclone is nearly 4,000 and the country's foreign minister says it could be more than twice that.
A member of the governing coalition in Israel is calling for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to immediately step down.
The U.S. military is blaming Al-Qaida-in-Iraq for last night's double suicide bombing that killed at least 36 people.
The Federal Reserve in coordination with European Central Banks says it will expand a series of efforts to deal with a global credit crisis.
The international food crisis is adding to the woes of people in Afghanistan.
Israel has marked the World War II Holocaust with a somber two-minute tribute.
The Bush administration reports a 16 percent increase in terrorist attacks in Afghanistan between 2006 and 2007 because of resurgent extremist activity there and in neighboring Pakistan.
Austrian authorities are checking for links between the murder of a young woman and the man accused of imprisoning his daughter for 24 years and fathering her children.
April has been the deadliest month since September for American troops in Iraq.
The White House drug czar says he believes South American cocaine traffickers are steering shipments away from the U.S. to Europe.
