Obama calls on Europeans to help solve global woes
07/24/2008
08:31 PM
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, as he neared the end of his seven-country foreign trip, staged an unusual public ...

China: We have more Internet users than any other nation
07/24/2008
10:17 PM
China's booming Internet population has surpassed the United States to become the world's biggest, according to government data.

South Texas cleans up after Dolly
07/24/2008
09:59 PM
Residents across South Texas slogged through knee-deep muddy waters and dug through debris Thursday, but were thankful that Dolly ...

Australian couple loses suit over unexpected birth of twins
07/24/2008
09:51 PM
A lesbian couple has failed in an attempt to sue an obstetrician they blamed for twins born rather than a single baby as requested.

New Zealand college students offer reward for arrest of Rice
07/24/2008
09:18 PM
New Zealand students protesting the Iraq war offered $3,700 to anyone who carries out a citizen's arrest of Condoleezza Rice ...

McCain to meet with Dalai Lama
07/24/2008
07:35 PM
John McCain planned to meet with the Dalai Lama in a show of solidarity with the Tibetan spiritual leader and as a rebuke to ...

Hijacker returns to Croatia after serving 30 years in USA
07/24/2008
05:12 PM
A man who served 32 years in a U.S. prison for hijacking a plane and planting a bomb that killed a policeman was granted parole.

Spanish cops: Basque explosives cache belongs to ETA
07/24/2008
05:56 PM
Spanish police say they have found a cache of some 220 pounds of explosives belonging to the Basque group ETA.

Storms sweep N.H.; 1 dead, at least 100 homes damaged
07/24/2008
04:58 PM
Violent storms swept through central New Hampshire on Thursday and destroyed several homes, killing a woman inside her home with ...

Bush reaches out to India, hopes to break WTO impasse
07/24/2008
05:58 PM
President Bush placed a private call to India's prime minister as their negotiators tried to break a deadlock on world trade ...

Argentine ex-general gets life sentence for 'dirty war' acts
07/24/2008
05:56 PM
Luciano Benjamin Menendez, 81, was commander of the regional Third Army Corps in Cordoba for five years during Argentina's 1976-83 ...

Iran ends cooperation with IAEA
07/24/2008
04:20 PM
Iran signaled it will no longer cooperate with U.N. experts probing for signs of clandestine nuclear weapons work.

Postal Service sets new mark for 1st-class on-time rates
07/24/2008
03:12 PM
More first-class mail items are getting to their destinations on time than ever before, the Postal Service said.

Obama scraps visit to wounded troops
07/24/2008
02:31 PM
Sen. Barack Obama scrapped plans to visit wounded members of the armed forces in Germany as part of his overseas trip, a decision ...

EU pushes for anti-terror measure
07/24/2008
02:06 PM
European Union ministers agreed in principle on Thursday to set up a U.S.-style passenger data recording system for commercial ...

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