With the price of oil hitting record highs, President Bush used a private visit with King Abdullah to make a second attempt to persuade the Saudis to increase oil production and was rejected yet again ...
Obese people are contributing to the world food crisis and are worsening climate change because of increased use of transportation fuel, experts say. ...
China sought experts and equipment from Japan and Taiwan as President Hu Jintao visited the area affected by the earthquake. ...
The White House said Friday that Saudi Arabia's leaders are making clear they see no reason to increase oil production until customers demand it. ...
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Like an episode from the hit mafia TV series the Sopranos, Australian mobster "Fat Tony" has finally been extradited from Greece to serve his 12 year jail sentence for cocaine tr ...
Strong aftershock rattles China quake zone; trapped survivors freed after nearly 100 hours ...
Seven weeks after the presidential election, Zimbabwe finally set a runoff date Friday, saying longtime President Robert Mugabe and rival Morgan Tsvangirai will face off in a June 27 ballot that the o ...
Reuters - Like an episode from the hit mafia TV series the Sopranos, Australian mobster "Fat Tony" has finally been extradited from Greece to serve his 12 year jail sentence for cocaine trafficking ...
Hu Jintao flies to Sichuan Province, where it is feared up to 50,000 people may have died in Monday's earthquake. ...
The official death toll for Burma's cyclone disaster jumps to nearly 78,000 with 56,000 missing, state TV says. ...
RIYADH, May 16 -- Saudi Arabia Friday rejected the idea of increasing oil production to help ease soaring gasoline prices, telling President Bush that the kingdom already is meeting its customers' dem ...
Almost five million people have been left homeless by Monday's earthquake in China, officials say. ...
Bush conceded the current level of Saudi Arabia's oil output isn't the prime factor driving today's oil spike, after the Saudi king rebuffed the president's request for higher oil production. The exch ...
The official death toll from Myanmar's devastating May 2-3 cyclone has jumped to nearly 78,000, state television reported Friday. ...
Chinese officials said rescuers were still finding survivors of an earthquake that has killed at least 22,000 people. ...
Foreign diplomats in Burma say the military junta has promised to take them on a tour of the disaster-hit area. ...
An independent effort to develop the software originally designed for the $100 laptop is launched. ...
The last remaining members of a Russian cult barricaded in a cave come out, reportedly overcome by corpse fumes. ...
In a stark acknowledgment that the U.S. is likely to hold prisoners overseas for years, officials are scaling back plans to shift prisoners into Afghan custody. ...
A letter in the Lancet medical journal sparks outrage from obesity experts. ...
Pakistani officials say they will not allow the U.S. military to attack militants based in Pakistani tribal areas. ...
Robert Mondavi Winery spokeswoman Mia Malm says Mondavi died peacefully at his home in Yountville on Friday. ...
China’s main centers for making and storing nuclear arms lie in the earthquake zone, leading Western experts to look for signs of any damage that might allow radioactivity to escape. ...
The United States is facing the limits of its clout in dealing with a junta that human rights advocates say is putting its own survival before that of the population. ...
Persistent rumors and tall tales by some Chinese bloggers are proving nettlesome to the authorities as they grapple with China’s most calamitous disaster in a generation. ...
With a presidential runoff ahead, the ruling party is focusing an intimidation campaign on groups that elude its direct control, including the Anglican diocese of Harare, the capital. ...
British Energy has received proposals from several parties wishing to make a full offer for the nuclear power-generation company, which could fetch more than $20 billion. ...
A United States court martial sentenced a marine to four years in prison for sexually abusing a 14-year-old. ...
Rescue workers are still struggling to reach untold numbers of remote villages, which could contribute tens of thousands more bodies to the earthquake death toll. ...
In Somalia, skimpy rainfall, soaring food prices and rising violence have pushed many people to the brink of famine. ...
While the death toll in Myanmar continues to climb, international aid agencies are warning of a new kind of threat to the most vulnerable survivors, children. ...
The second round of voting would come nearly three months after the first rather than the three weeks stipulated by Zimbabwean law. ...
Foreign tourists evacuated to Chengdu described a dangerous escape made possible by the heroism of panda keepers and other workers who helped save them, as well as 13 panda cubs. ...
President Leonel Fernández appeared headed for a third term largely as a result of a campaign gift to the populace that dwarfed those of his opponents — a shiny new subway system. ...
Near the end of his Israel visit, the president has an informal chat with a group of Jewish and Arab students. A frank and lively discussion results. ...
The most powerful earthquake in China since 1950 shows the nation's insurance industry is decades behind those of the world's biggest economies. Just 5 percent of the more than 20 billion U. S. ...
UN refugee agency says increase probably linked to attack on Sudanese capital Khartoum last weekend by rebels from Darfur ...
The widespread destruction of Chinese classrooms and dormitory rooms in the earthquake has raised questions about the design and construction of the country's schools. ...
The Bush administration said yesterday it will restart food aid to North Korea and provide it with more than 500,000 tons of food -- the largest one-year amount since 1999. ...
AP - Piles of broken concrete rise seven stories high, and a few buildings stand askew, knocked at odd angles. People cry out the names of missing relatives and rescue workers shout, "Is anyone there? ...
For people pinned in the wreckage after catastrophes such as this week's earthquake in China, a successful rescue often marks the beginning, not the end, of the danger. ...
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