A political tempest over Barack Obama's comments about bitter voters insmall towns has given rival Hillary Rodham Clinton a new opening tocourt working class Democrats 10 days before Pennsylvanians hold aprimary that she must win to keep her presidential campaign
A highway patrolman who was photographed in a handmade Ku Klux Klan costume while on duty the day before the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday has been suspended without pay, authorities said.
Confessions from Shiite militiamen led Saturday to the discovery of 15 more bodies dumped in mass graves south of Baghdad, officials said - the second such find this week.
After spending a decade leading a communist insurgency in the mountains of Nepal, former top rebel Prachanda became the newest member Saturday of an assembly that will chart the Himalayan country's future.
China has detained nine Buddhist monks and accused them of planting a homemade bomb last month in a government office building in eastern Tibet, an official said Sunday.
South Korea's president renewed his call Sunday for North Korea to scrap its nuclear weapons programs and said Seoul is ready for talks with Pyongyang.
President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga reached a deal Saturday on a coalition Cabinet, following protracted talks on implementing a power-sharing deal meant to end the political crisis over a disputed election, officials said.
Haitian lawmakers on Saturday dismissed the country's prime minister, hoping to defuse widespread anger over rising food prices that led to days of deadly protests and looting.
The Libyan officer tried to cloak the purpose of his call to the Italian arms dealer. "A friend," he said, wanted to buy 1 million "pieces" and 50 million items of "food."
Workers rebuilding a sports stadium on the site of an 18th century Jewish cemetery in Belarus say they have no choice but to consign the bones to city dumps.
A bomb explosion in a mosque packed with hundreds of worshippers in southern Iran killed at least nine people and injured more than 100 Saturday, local media reported.
Haitian lawmakers on Saturday dismissed the country's prime minister,hoping to defuse widespread anger over rising food prices that led todays of deadly protests and looting.
A levee along a river in southeast Missouri failed for the second time inrecent weeks, causing widespread flooding and forcing the evacuation. Meanwhile, in Arkansas, 2 people drowned when their vehicle became submerged near a flooded highway.Â
The head of the International Monetary Fund warned Saturday that iffood prices remain high, there will be dire consequences for people inmany developing countries, especially in Africa.
A witness in the federal investigation into performance-enhancing drugssaid he advised and supplied track coach Trevor Graham and hisathletes, including Marion Jones, as well as Maurice Greene, The NewYork Times reported on its Web site.
Texas Rangers along with Arizona probation officials met Saturday withthe man accused of abusing the 16-year-old girl whose call for helptriggered a massive raid on the West Texas compound of a secretivepolygamous sect.
At least 23 people in 14 states have been sickened by the same strain of salmonella found in two breakfast cereals recalled by Malt-O-Meal, the federal Food and Drug Administration said Saturday.
