Gang Forces Python to Bite Boy in Suspected Racial Attack

2009/08/10 08:30:37

Emergency medical personnel used a Google search to help save the life of a British teenager who was...

Pakistan Fears Al Qaeda Installing Chief in Taliban

2009/08/10 06:02:46

Pakistan is worried that Al Qaeda is trying to install its own "chief terrorist" as the head of Paki...

Hundreds Missing After Typhoon Triggers Mudslide in Taiwan

2009/08/10 04:01:15

Raging floodwaters and a deadly mudslide spawned by Typhoon Morakot buried at least 400 people and d...

Pirate says $4 million ransom paid for Italian tugboat

2009/08/10 03:26:57

BOSASSO, Somalia (Reuters) - Somali pirates received a $4 million ransom to free an Italian cargo sh...

Dispatches From Afghanistan: Resurrection

2009/08/10 02:15:35

Michael Yon, an independent journalist and former Green Beret, is in Afghanistan reporting on the wa...

New Afghan Voter Poll Shows Karzai With Big Lead

2009/08/10 01:47:21

A new poll of Afghan voters shows President Hamid Karzai with a big lead just 10 days before the cou...

Karzai Invites Taliban to Talk Despite Attack on Afghan City

2009/08/10 01:15:53

President Hamid Karzai said Monday that if he wins re-election as Afghan president this month he wil...

Iran Guard wants former president, moderates tried

2009/08/10 00:02:30

LONDON (Reuters) - Iran's Revolutionary Guard said on Sunday that two defeated presidential contende...

5 Killed in Taliban Attack on City South of Kabul

2009/08/10 08:01:26

A half dozen Taliban fighters infiltrated a provincial capital just south of the Afghan capital on M...

16 Sailors Freed by Somali Pirates

2009/08/10 05:26:22

Sixteen sailors, including 10 Italians, whose tug was seized by Somali pirates four months ago are f...

U.S. commander says Taliban have Afghan momentum

2009/08/10 03:28:55

KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban are advancing out of traditional strongholds in Afghanistan's south an...

Iraq bomb attacks kill 33 in Shi'ite areas

2009/08/10 02:46:47

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Bombs in Shi'ite Muslim areas in Baghdad and northern Iraq killed 33 people ...

Burglars Steal $15.5 Million From Saudi Princess' Hotel Room

2009/08/10 01:53:15

Italian police said Monday they are hunting for burglars who stole euro11 million ($15.5 million) in...

Lenin Statue Collapses, Crushes Man to Death in Belarus

2009/08/10 01:25:46

Belarusian officials says that a massive statue of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin collapsed on a man ...

China breaks up large underground bank ring

2009/08/10 00:50:27

BEIJING (Reuters) - Police in southern China have broken up a ring that operated as an underground b...