Reuters - A former Serb commander, now an
Australian citizen, charged with war crimes committed during
Croatia's 1991-95 war of independence has been arrested in
Australia, Attorney-Gener

AFP - At least 52 people were killed when an overcrowded bus skidded off a slippery mountain road and plunged into a gorge in Indian Kashmir.{br}{br}View the Enti

AFP - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad closed ranks in talks between the two allies, as both nations face growing international pressure.{br}{br}Vi

AFP - Japan could reimpose a ban on US beef lifted last month after a beef shipment may have violated rules aimed at preventing mad cow disease, Agriculture Minister Shoichi Nakaga

AP - Osama bin Laden warned in an audiotape aired Thursday that his fighters are preparing new attacks in the United States but offered the American people a "long-term truce" without specifying t

AP - A top Sunni politician appealed Friday for the release of an American female journalist and urged U.S. and Iraqi forces to stop arresting Iraqi women as a deadline set by the reporter'

AP - Security forces went on high alert in Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq to prevent possible terror attacks ahead of Friday's announcement of preliminary election results, police and milita

AP - A Slovak military plane carrying troops back from Kosovo crashed into a mountainside in northeastern Hungary, killing at least 42 people, officials said Friday.]]>{br}{br}View the Enti

Reuters - Cuba's leadership has begun to prepare
for the day when President Fidel Castro is no longer around,
amid concern the island's communist system could implode in a
politic

AP - The head of Russia's atomic energy agency said Friday that Iran is ready for detailed discussions on the proposal to conduct Iran's uranium enrichment in Russia, the RIA-Novosti ne

AP - A roadside bomb exploded in central Baghdad on Friday, killing four Iraqi civilians and wounding three, police said.]]>{br}{br}View the Enti

AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has a penchant for changing symbols — he's renamed Congress, the Supreme Court and the country itself since taking power.]]>{br}{br}View the Enti

AFP/File - Nigerian oil workers' unions threatened to withdraw their members from the troubled Niger delta region if the government fails to stop the violence there.{br}{br}View the Enti

AFP/Jiji Press/File - Prosecutors have begun grilling executives at Livedoor, the once high-flying Internet firm at the centre of recent market pandemonium in Japan, reports said, as pressure grew

Canadian Press - OTTAWA (CP) - In the barrage of questions fired at Paul Martin in recent weeks about his sagging Liberal campaign, one in particular painted a telling picture about just how mu

AFP/Al-Jazeera TV - A new audiotape by Osama bin Laden and a recent airstrike targeting his deputy have dramatically swung the spotlight back on the impossibly remote region where they are thought