US Marines Attack in South Afghanistan
U.S. marines in helicopters and Humvees have pushed into a Taliban-held town in southern Afghanistan's most violent province.
U.S. marines in helicopters and Humvees have pushed into a Taliban-held town in southern Afghanistan's most violent province.
Afghanistan's intelligence chief says he warned President Hamid Karzai of the weekend assassination plot against him.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon says he will head a new task force to tackle the global food crisis.
President Bush will meet with the U.N.'s top envoy to Afghanistan today amid new security concerns in the country.
Austrian police say a man has confessed to imprisoning his daughter for 24 years and fathering seven children with her.
The White House says Syria owes the world an explanation about what it was up to in the Syrian desert.
A Pentagon audit has found that Iraq's government has kept thousands of dead, injured or absent policemen and soldiers on the payroll to assist their families.
Two days of Mideast diplomacy at the White House have begun with President Bush meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah.
Iraq could take in as much as 70 billion dollars in oil revenues this year.
A cluster of brightly colored party balloons has been found floating in the ocean off Brazil's coast. But rescuers say there's still no sign of the Roman Catholic Priest who had been using them to try to set a flight record.
General David Petraeus, the four-star general who has been leading troops in Iraq, has been tapped to become the next commander of U.S. Central command.
Former President Jimmy Carter says Hamas is prepared to accept the right of Israel to “live as a neighbor next door in peace.”
A South Korean is back from a $20 million ride into space and she apparently got every penny's worth.
Police in Baghdad say an Iraqi army unit retreated overnight after coming under attack by Shiite militiamen.
President Bush's new pronouncement on how to fight global warming is getting a cold shoulder from congressional democrats.
At least 50 people are dead in a suicide attack today at a funeral in Iraq.
After more than two years, an Associated Press photographer who'd been detained by the U.S. military in Iraq is free.
More than 50 people are dead in Iraq in two separate car bombings.
The Iraqi military says a British journalist kidnapped two months ago in the southern city of Basra has been rescued.
Water balloons and demonstrators aren't slowing down the olympic torch's relay through Argentina.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he doubts the radical Shiite cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr would be subject to arrest by U.S. forces.
It's been relatively quiet in Argentina ahead of today's Olympic torch relay, but demonstrators are promising to be mobile once things get started.
The president of the International Olympic Committee is calling the turmoil over the Beijing torch relay a “crisis” for the Olympic movement.
Iraqi authorities say at least 16 people have died during fighting in Baghdad's Sadr city.
A scientist is warning that climate change could make beer more expensive -- especially in Australia.
