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 Tue October 30, 2007

Pope's "morning after pill" speech criticized

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Politicians and pharmacists in Italy responded angrily on Tuesday to an appeal by Pope Benedict for pharmacists to refuse to dispense...

updated Tue October 30, 2007

Astronauts install solar unit on space station

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Astronauts made a tricky job look easy on Tuesday when they used a robot arm to latch a 17.5 tonne solar power girder to its new home at t...

updated Tue October 30, 2007

North Korea nuclear disabling on track, U.S. says

BEIJING (Reuters) - North Korea is on track to disable its nuclear program by the end of this year as its differences with the United States have mostly been ...

updated Tue October 30, 2007

Google plan sees phones by mid-2008: report

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Web search leader Google Inc is expected to announce advanced software and services enabling handset makers to bring Google-powered phones to market by mid-2008, the Wall Street Journal rep...

updated Tue October 30, 2007

Blackwater guards offered immunity deals: report

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. State Department investigators looking into the shooting deaths of 17 Iraqis in Baghdad last month offered immunity deals to Black...

updated Tue October 30, 2007

Iran defiant ahead of nuclear talks with Russia

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will not back down in a nuclear dispute with the West and is not interested in talks with the United States, its president said on Tue...

updated Tue October 30, 2007

Paparazzo offered Diana crash pictures to tabloid: court

LONDON (Reuters) - A photographer rang a British newspaper from the Paris road tunnel where Princess Diana lay dying to offer exclusive pictures for 300,000 p...

updated Tue October 30, 2007

White House: Energy price too high but economy firm

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House reiterated on Tuesday that it considered energy prices too high but said the economy would weather the impact. ...

updated Tue October 30, 2007

Girardi agrees to manage Yankees

NEW YORK - Joe Girardi has agreed to a three-year contract to manage the New York Yankees. ...

updated Tue October 30, 2007

77-year-old gets carded in beer purchase

GALLIVARE, Sweden - He may look young for his age, but 77-year-old Swedish retiree Per-Eric Henricsson was not flattered when his local supermarket asked him t...

updated Tue October 30, 2007

Paris Hilton to head to Rwanda next year

NEW YORK - Her trip to Rwanda has been postponed, but Paris Hilton is still determined to use her celebrity status for good causes. ...

updated Tue October 30, 2007

Consumer confidence drops in October

NEW YORK - A key barometer of consumer sentiment dropped to its lowest level in two years, igniting concern that the upcoming holiday shopping season would be ...

updated Tue October 30, 2007

Astronauts install solar power beam

HOUSTON - Spacewalking astronauts bolted a solar power tower to the international space station on Tuesday, completing an ambitious three-day moving process an...

updated Tue October 30, 2007

Tropical storm that killed 20 hits Cuba

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - Tropical Storm Noel slogged across Cuba on Tuesday and drew closer to Florida after causing flooding and mudslides that kil...

updated Tue October 30, 2007

Iraq bill would lift contractor immunity

BAGHDAD - The Iraqi government on Tuesday approved draft legislation lifting immunity for foreign private security companies, sending the measure to parliament...

updated Tue October 30, 2007

Palestinians demand deadline for state

RAMALLAH, West Bank - The chief Palestinian peace negotiator threatened on Tuesday that there would be no talks with Israel unless a deadline is set for establ...

updated Tue October 30, 2007

US death toll in Iraq lower in October

BAGHDAD - The monthly toll of U.S. service members who have died in Iraq is on track to being the lowest in nearly two years, with at least 34 troop deaths rec...

updated Tue October 30, 2007

Bush chides Congress on spending bills

WASHINGTON - President Bush scolded lawmakers on Tuesday, saying the Democratic-led Congress hasn't "seen a bill they could not solve without shoving a tax hik...

updated Sun October 28, 2007

Pakistan's Bhutto to meet party leaders amid tight security

LARKANA, Pakistan (AFP) - Former Pakistan premier Benazir Bhutto is expected to meet with party leaders Sunday as she keeps up a tightly secured tour of her a...

updated Sun October 28, 2007

Thousands join US anti-Iraq war protests

NEW YORK (AFP) - Tens of thousands of demonstrators joined marches in cities across the United States demanding an end to the war in Iraq, organizers said. ...