Report: Iran Hangs 5 Convicted of Rape, Murder

2008/05/12 12:07:18

State-owned newspaper says Iran has hanged five men convicted of raping and murdering a young woman....

U.K. Pagan Prisoners Granted Right to Carry Magic Wands

2008/05/12 10:10:39

A new ruling has granted pagan inmates in British prisons the right to keep twigs in their cells for...

200 Taliban Suspects End Hunger Strike in Afghan Jail

2008/05/12 08:27:20

More than 200 Taliban suspects end a weeklong hunger strike at a prison in the southern Afghan city ...

8 Afghan Officials Suspended After Attack on President

2008/05/12 07:56:07

Afghanistan's top civilian counterterrorism official and Kabul's police chief are among eight securi...

Zimbabwe rejects Western election observers

2008/05/12 06:57:39

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe will not invite election observers from Western countries to monitor a p...

Sendler, savior of Warsaw Ghetto children, dies

2008/05/12 06:52:16

WARSAW (Reuters) - Irena Sendler, a Polish woman who saved thousands of Jewish children during World...

China quake kills at least 107, buries 900

2008/05/12 06:46:53

BEIJING (Reuters) - A powerful earthquake in southwest China killed at least 107 people on Monday an...

Darfur rebel leader vows more attacks on Khartoum

2008/05/12 06:39:11

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Darfur rebel leader Khalil Ibrahim said on Monday he would launch more attacks ...

Mother: My Missing Daughter Connected to McCann Case

2008/05/12 11:24:27

The family of a girl who vanished just seven miles from the Portuguese resort where Madeleine McCann...

Thousands Dead After Magnitude 7.9 Earthquake Rocks China

2008/05/12 09:37:19

One of the worst earthquakes in decades topples buildings, schools and a chemical plant in central C...

3 Japanese Men Found Dead in Apparent Detergent Suicide

2008/05/12 08:21:27

Three Japanese men found dead in a car in what police suspect is the latest in a string of suicides ...

U.S. flies cyclone aid to Myanmar

2008/05/12 07:00:18

YANGON (Reuters) - The first U.S. military aid flight landed in Myanmar on Monday, but relief suppli...

Egypt optimistic about Israel-Hamas truce

2008/05/12 06:55:58

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A top Egyptian mediator said on Monday he had "high expectations" that a cease...

Russia keeps key figures in new Putin cabinet

2008/05/12 06:48:28

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Incoming Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced his cabinet line-up on M...

Serbia in coalition scramble after ambivalent vote

2008/05/12 06:41:49

BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia's pro-European alliance sought a coalition deal with smaller parties on ...