Guatemalan Village Mob Kills 5 After Girl Goes Missing

2008/12/12 04:17:45

A Guatemalan official says a mob beat and then shot to death five men suspected of kidnapping a 15-y...

Negotiator: Israel Wants 6.8 Percent of West Bank

2008/12/12 03:49:50

The chief Palestinian negotiator says Israel has asked to annex 6.8 percent of the West Bank in a pe...

Mexican Playboy Publishes Nude Virgin Mary on Cover

2008/12/12 02:35:49

Playboy has got into the Christmas spirit — by putting the Virgin Mary nude on its Mexican cover....

Morocco Arrests 5 Alleged Extremists Plotting Attack

2008/12/12 01:50:31

The Moroccan Interior Ministry says police have arrested five Islamist extremists who were plotting ...

Soldiers Fearing Terrorism Take Toy Guns From Iraqi Kids

2008/12/12 01:09:23

The toy gun ban shows how jittery the U.S. and Iraqi forces still are in a country where the enemy d...

Flooded Rome Braces for Tiber to Break Its Banks

2008/12/12 00:27:40

Rome is on high alert as city officials gave warning that the Tiber was expected to break its banks ...

North Korea sending more signs Kim has recovered: Seoul

2008/12/11 23:28:44

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has been using a flurry of recent media dispatches to show its people ...

China chooses new site for quake-leveled town

2008/12/11 21:05:28

BEIJING (Reuters) - China has chosen a new site to rebuild the town of Beichuan, where the massive M...

Tiny Island Welcomes Democracy, Hit by Huge Layoffs

2008/12/12 04:02:32

After 450 years of rule by feudalism, residents on the tiny Channel island of Sark knew their first-...

Dictator's Fans Open Pinochet Museum in Chile

2008/12/12 03:08:15

Admirers of former dictator Augusto Pinochet inaugurated a museum in his honor on Friday, a move the...

U.S. Troops Kill 4 Afghan Civilians When Bus Doesn't Stop

2008/12/12 01:55:46

U.s. troops opened fire on a bus carrying civilians Friday in central Afghanistan, killing four pass...

Russia: African-American's Stabbing May Be Hate Crime

2008/12/12 01:23:18

An African-American exchange student has been stabbed by unknown assailants in a southern Russian ci...

Greek Violence Escalates After 7 Days of Riots

2008/12/12 00:39:02

Greek youths hurled rocks and Molotov cocktails at riot police in Athens on Friday, who responded wi...

Greek violence flares for sixth day

2008/12/11 23:31:33

ATHENS (Reuters) - Protesters hurled fire bombs at riot police, who answered with teargas, as 4,000 ...

Afghan improvised roadside blasts rise sharply

2008/12/11 23:24:57

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Roadside bomb attacks on U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan have risen sharp...