Zimbabwe presidential contender Morgan Tsvangirai was released Wednesday after spending nearly 10 hours in police custody, a Tsvangirai spokesman said. Tsvangirai, head of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change party, and several other MDC lea
A band of storms that moved east from Indiana on Wednesday splintered homes, swept vehicles from flooded roads and dumped a historic covered bridge into a river. Three people were killed. A woman died Wednesday afternoon when a tree fell on a vehicle
As if BlackBerry users needed one more excuse to be glued to their screens, E-Trade Financial Corp. is giving its account holders an application that will let them get real-time stock quotes and trade on their phones. High-end phone users have for a
Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader called on Muslims to launch a holy war to break Israel's economic blockade of the Gaza Strip, in an audio recording posted Wednesday on an Islamic militant Internet site. In the 11-minute tape, a voice purportedly belonging
The U.S. Geological Survey says a 5.3 magnitude aftershock has shaken China's quake-battered Sichuan province. The aftershock on Thursday came amid concerns over rising water levels in a lake formed by landslides from the massive May 12 temblor. The
Kenyans have long watched the U.S. presidential election with special interest and, in many cases, a special sense of pride. Barak Obama is the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas. I'm excited ... because he's a Kenyan. He'
The United States accepted 1,141 Iraqi refugees in May, the most the U.S. has taken in one month, and officials say they're on track to meet this fiscal year's goal of 12,000. Ambassador James Foley, the State Department's point man on the issue,
The Pakistani scientist who admitted leaking nuclear secrets to North Korea, Iran and Libya has again recanted his confession. Abdul Qadeer Khan is widely regarded as a hero in Pakistan for his part in helping the country to develop nuclear weapons.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday called for talks with rival Hamas aimed at forming a new government after a yearlong political and territorial split. Abbas said the goal of the national unity talks would be to produce new e
Sen. Barack Obama, the newly minted presumed Democratic presidential nominee, said Wednesday that it was very humbling to be the the first African-American to lead a major party's ticket and expressed confidence the party would unify behind him. You
U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon says $15 billion to $20 billion is needed each year to boost food production to combat hunger. The United Nations secretary-general says most of that money would have to come from concerned countries. Ban was speaking Wednesday
Angry fishermen take their protest over soaring fuel costs to Brussels on Wednesday where several thousand are set to picket the European Parliament, fisheries representatives in four countries said. Several thousand fishermen from Portugal, Italy, S
United Nations nuclear inspectors will visit Syria later this month to investigate allegations that the country was building a nuclear reactor at a site attacked by Israel last September, officials said. The International Atomic Energy Agency's fact
