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 opens Mideast shuttle diplomacy

JERUSALEM - Opening an intense round of Mideast shuttle diplomacy, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday played down expectations her mission would fin...

updated Sun October 14, 2007

Detentions to be top topic for AG pick

WASHINGTON - As the chief federal trial judge in Manhattan, Michael Mukasey approved secret warrants allowing government roundups of Muslims in the days after ...

updated Sun October 14, 2007

9 die as car bomb blasts minibus in Iraq

BAGHDAD - A parked car bomb struck worshippers heading to a Shiite mosque Sunday in Baghdad, killing at least nine people as Iraqis celebrated a Muslim holiday...

updated Sun October 14, 2007

UN envoy heads to Asia as Myanmar junta rounds up activists

BANGKOK (AFP) - UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari was due in Bangkok on Sunday for an Asian tour aimed at building pressure on Myanmar's generals, who have shrugged off international concerns and arrested more protester...

updated Sun October 14, 2007

Under-fire Australian PM calls election

SYDNEY (AFP) - Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Sunday called a general election for November 24 in which the staunch US ally in Iraq faces the fight ...

updated Sun October 14, 2007

Rice urges Turkey to show restraint on Iraq

MOSCOW/ANKARA (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Saturday she had urged Turkey to refrain from any major military operation in north...

updated Sun October 14, 2007

Leadership dooms Iraq strategy: ex-commander

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A "catastrophic failure" in the Bush administration's leadership of the Iraq war has mired the United States in a nightma...

updated Sun October 14, 2007

Banks to set up $80 bln fund to limit credit crunch

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Major banks including Citigroup Inc are looking at setting up a roughly $80 billion fund to buy ailing mortgage securiti...

updated Sun October 14, 2007

Rice pledges support to Russian activists

MOSCOW (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Russian human rights activists on Saturday she wanted to help them build institutions to prot...

updated Sun October 14, 2007

Six foreign tourists drown in Thai cave flood

BANGKOK (Reuters) - At least eight people, six of them foreign tourists and including a 10-year-old German boy, drowned when a flash flood trapped them in a c...

updated Sun October 14, 2007

Myanmar restores Internet, but arrests continue

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's ruling generals have restored public Internet access, more than two weeks after cutting Web connections to stem the flow of i...

updated Sun October 14, 2007

Clinton has 21-point lead in New Hampshire poll

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton has a 21-point lead over fellow Democrat Barack Obama in New Hampshire, one of the first states to vote in the nominati...

updated Sun October 14, 2007

California tunnel crash kills 3

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Three people were killed and at least 10 injured in a multi-vehicle crash that caused a fire inside a tunnel and forced the closure of...

updated Sun October 14, 2007

Kentucky stuns top-ranked LSU in 3 OTs

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Andre Woodson stood calmly in the middle of the field Saturday as thousands of fans went crazy around him — the college football landscap...

updated Sun October 14, 2007

Nixon nails old mates, Indians tie ALCS

BOSTON - Trot Nixon spent 13 years in the Red Sox organization trying to prove he could hit lefties. That ought to be pretty clear to everyone now. The longtim...

updated Sun October 14, 2007

UN envoy to Myanmar seeks help from Asia

YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar's ruling junta lashed out Sunday at global efforts to bring democracy to the tightly controlled nation, timing its message for the da...

updated Sun October 14, 2007

Embattled Sen. Craig honored in Idaho

BOISE, Idaho - Sen. Larry Craig was named Saturday night to the Idaho Hall of Fame, marking the Republican lawmaker's first ceremonial appearance back in his h...

updated Sun October 14, 2007

Jailed T.I., West, Common win 2 awards

ATLANTA - Despite rapper T.I.'s absence, the show went on at the second-annual BET Hip-Hop Awards — even when he was scheduled to perform. ...

updated Sun October 14, 2007

Report ranks jobs by rates of depression

WASHINGTON - People who tend to the elderly, change diapers and serve up food and drinks have the highest rates of depression among U.S. workers. ...

updated Sun October 14, 2007

Cities take the lead on climate change

VAXJO, Sweden - When this quiet city in southern Sweden decided in 1996 to wean itself off fossil fuels, most people doubted the ambitious goal would have any ...