It was just after nightfall when three journalists were stopped at a police checkpoint on a winding, rutted road in China's western Sichuan province - territory that had become out of bounds for the foreigners.
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai called Saturday on President Robert Mugabe to step down and accused the country's longtime ruler of plotting a campaign of violence to bolster his chances of winning an expected runoff.
Armed police prevented opposition lawyers from entering Zimbabwe's HighCourt on Saturday to lodge an urgent suit aiming to force thepublication of presidential election results.
President Bush celebrated NATO's expansion into former communistterritory on Saturday and urged further enlargement, highlightingdifferences with Moscow hours before final talks with outgoing RussianPresident Vladimir Putin.
Beijing's heavy pollution may hurt the performances of athletes in thissummer's Olympic Games, although it will not endanger their health,International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge said Saturday.
When Army Gen. David Petraeus delivers his assessment of the Iraq war next week, Republican Sen. John McCain and Democratic Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama willhave an opportunity to ask question the top U.S. military commander in Iraq.Â
Child welfare officials are scrambling to find foster homes for dozensof girls removed from a secretive West Texas religious retreat built bypolygamist leader Warren Jeffs after a 16-year-old living therecomplained of physical abuse.
Workers' pink slips stacked ever higher in March as jitteryemployers slashed 80,000 jobs, the most in five years, and the nationalunemployment rate climbed to 5.1 percent. Job losses are nearing thestaggering level of a quarter-million this year in just three
Sen. Joe Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,said the military push in Iraq didn't succeed because U.S. troops remaincommitted there in large numbers and political reconciliation has notbeen achieved.
One person is dead and at least four others are seriously injured after a tour bus headed from Chicago to Minnesota rolled over onto its side in an accident on Interstate 94 near Albertville, Minn.
President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin opened suspensefulfarewell talks Saturday as the White House dropped hopes they wouldresolve differences on U.S. missile defense plans, one of the mostcontentious issues in a long list of security disputes.
In the past two months, Arkansas has suffered through a tornadooutbreak that killed 13, a foot of snow, a foot of rain and near-recordflooding. Now a tornado has hit the capital city and Arkansans have to be wondering what's next.
A man shot and killed his wife's doctor Friday outside a medical office building before being critically wounded himself by a police officer, authorities said.
A convicted sex offender pleaded not guilty Friday to killing a real estate agent who was showing him a rural house for sale, and prosecutors said he confessed to other attacks, including one that put a 69-year-old woman in a
A serial killer pleaded guilty Friday to killing five women nearly 30 years ago in southeast Missouri, but he avoided the death penalty after making a deal with prosecutors.
One of two suspects charged in a series of random shootings that killed seven people in the Phoenix area pleaded guilty Friday to two counts of first-degree murder.
A woman who was buried in an avalanche on Friday near Georgetown, Colo. has survived the incident. She was taken to Summit Medical Center and her condition is unknown so far.
Republican Sen. John McCain says Martin Luther King Jr. "seems a bigger man" than he did 40 years ago on the day of his death. McCain stood outside the motel where the civil rights leader was slain. The presidential candidate
