Bush to hold talks with Turkish leader on Iraqi Kurds

WASHINGTON (AFP) - President George W. Bush on Monday faces crisis talks with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as he vies to dissuade his "war on terror" ally from an incursion into Iraq to hunt down Kurdish rebels. Ahead of the meeting at the W... full story

updated Sun October 14, 2007

Rice worried by Putin's broad powers

MOSCOW - The Russian government under Vladimir Putin has amassed so much central authority that the power-grab may undermine Moscow's commitment to democracy, ...

updated Sun October 14, 2007

Fiery California pileup kills at least 3

SANTA CLARITA, Calif. - A fiery, chain-reaction pileup resulting from a late-night crash in a Southern California freeway tunnel mangled several trucks, killed...

updated Sun October 14, 2007

Poll: Clinton has large lead in N.H.

Hillary Rodham Clinton is holding a commanding lead over Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination in New Hampshire, a poll released Sunday found...

updated Mon October 08, 2007

Security Council to meet to consider action against Myanmar

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - Faced with mounting world outrage over violence in Myanmar, the UN Security Council was to meet Monday under pressure to quickly condem...

updated Mon October 08, 2007

Pakistan inches closer to civilian rule

ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistan's Pervez Musharraf is to swear in the nation's former top spy to succeed him as army chief, a move that would bring civilia...

updated Mon October 08, 2007

Court unlikely to annul Musharraf victory

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf must wait at least 10 days for a Supreme Court ruling on the legality of his re-election but t...

updated Mon October 08, 2007

Palestinians launch rocket deeper into Israel

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinian militants fired a Katyusha rocket deep into southern Israel on Sunday, the army and police said, showing an ability to exten...

updated Mon October 08, 2007

Interpol in rare global appeal for Web pedophile

LONDON (Reuters) - Interpol on Monday launched an unprecedented worldwide public appeal to track down a man shown sexually abusing children in images posted o...

updated Mon October 08, 2007

Iran rejects nuclear program talks

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Negotiations over Iran's nuclear enrichment activities would be meaningless because the country has a legal right to pursue the technol...

updated Mon October 08, 2007

Report says war on terror is fuelling al Qaeda

LONDON (Reuters) - Six years after the September 11 attacks in the United States, the "war on terror" is failing and instead fuelling an increase in...

updated Mon October 08, 2007

Seven dead in Wisconsin after deputy opens fire

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A sheriff's deputy shot and killed six young people in the northern Wisconsin town of Crandon before being killed himself after a manhunt, a local TV station reported on Sunday, quoting poli...

updated Mon October 08, 2007

Petraeus steps up accusations against Iran

EAST OF BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - The U.S. military commander in Iraq stepped up accusations over the weekend that Iran was inciting violence there and said Te...

updated Mon October 08, 2007

Curt Schilling pitches Red Sox into ALCS

ANAHEIM, Calif. - Brilliant as ever in the postseason, Curt Schilling helped give the Boston Red Sox some time off. The way they're playing, maybe that's the l...

updated Mon October 08, 2007

UK probe of Diana's death going to Paris

PARIS - A decade after Princess Diana and her boyfriend Dodi Fayed were killed in a Paris car crash, a British coroner's jury comes to the French capital this ...

updated Mon October 08, 2007

Activists mark Russia journalist's death

MOSCOW - Activists marked the first anniversary of journalist Anna Politkovskaya's slaying Sunday while across town, pro-Kremlin youth thronged a Moscow embank...

updated Mon October 08, 2007

UAW, Chrysler return to bargaining table

DETROIT - Negotiators with the United Auto Workers union and Chrysler LLC have made progress on efforts to reach a new four-year labor contract, but a person b...

updated Mon October 08, 2007

Iowa poll puts Clinton atop in key state

NEW HAMPTON, Iowa - Hillary Rodham Clinton has taken the lead among Democratic presidential candidates in an Iowa poll, an encouraging sign of progress toward ...

updated Mon October 08, 2007

Darfur town razed after peacekeeper raid

KHARTOUM, Sudan - A Darfur town under the control of Sudanese troops has been razed in apparent retaliation for a rebel attack on a nearby base of African peac...

updated Mon October 08, 2007

Leavitt seeks deal on children's health

WASHINGTON - President Bush's health secretary said Sunday he does not expect Congress to override a veto on children's insurance and warned that the popular p...

updated Mon October 08, 2007

Knowing the enemy difficult in Iraq

PATROL BASE HAWKS, Iraq - When U.S. sentries fatally shot three guards near an Iraqi-manned checkpoint south of Baghdad, they thought they were targeting enemy...