By ALISTAIR MACDONALD And PAUL SONNE Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi died on Sunday, nearly three years after the Scottish government discharged him from prison on the grounds that he had about three months to live. The Libyan national died at ...
* G8 leaders conclude talks on Euro zone crisis * NATO leaders seek smooth transition out of Afghanistan By Missy Ryan and David Brunnstrom CHICAGO, May 20 (Reuters) - NATO leaders gathered in Chicago on Sunday to chart a path out of Afghanistan as ...
Newly minted billionaire Mark Zuckerberg had an important status update Saturday evening: Married. The 28-year-old tied the knot with his longtime girlfriend, the recently graduated Dr. Priscilla Chen in a private ceremony at the couple's home in Palo ...
ROME — An earthquake early Sunday in north-central Italy killed six people, injured dozens and sent parts of historic castles, clock towers and churches tumbling down. Italian authorities said the earthquake in the area of Modena and Ferrara in the ...
By KAREN MATTHEWS AP May 20, 2012 7:54AM Blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng arrives at Washington Square Village on the campus of New York University, Saturday, May 19, 2012, in New York. Chen escaped from his village in April and was given ...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban is urging all NATO nations in Afghanistan to follow France's lead and pull their international forces from the war this year. The call came in a three-page statement released Sunday as heads of state met at the ...
Jewel Samad/AFP/GettyImages(WASHINGTON) -- There were a couple new faces in town at the annual Group of Eight summit, and a couple new allies for President Obama, who has been urging Europeans to follow America's lead. And with 4 million jobs created ...
House Speaker John Boehner on Sunday downplayed the supposed plan to resurrect Rev. Jeremiah Wright in an anti-Obama ad campaign, becoming the latest prominent Republican to knock down the proposal despite Democratic efforts to play it up.
By Claudette Riley, Springfield (Mo.) News-Leader JOPLIN, Mo. – A patch of wildflowers planted in the weeks before the May 22 tornado that killed 161 people and left schools, police and fire stations, parks and other landmarks in the rubble, ...
AP RALEIGH, NC — Tropical Storm Alberto emerged off South Carolina's coastline Sunday, the first storm of its kind to form in a hurricane season that doesn't officially begin until June 1. The storm was not expected to approach landfall on the ...
