RSS FeedsA steep drop in the price of oil may force Iraq to scale back its $79 billion budget for 2009, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday.- 12:49 PM
Security forces killed four suspected militants overnight in a northwest Pakistani tribal region where the military has waged a bloody offensive against insurgents, an official said Wednesday.- 3:30 AM
A Malaysian court ordered the country's former king Wednesday to settle a $1 million debt to a bank in a landmark verdict that ended a centuries-old tradition shielding the country's royal sultans from legal prosecution.- 3:30 AM
Britain's top law-enforcement official says that the government is considering setting up a database of all phone and e-mail traffic in the country as part of a high-tech strategy to fight terrorism and crime.- 1:19 PM
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Wednesday he will reach out to all parties during the global financial meltdown after his Conservative Party won national elections but saw its hopes of clinching a parliamentary majority dashed.- 10:05 AM
A prominent Russian human rights lawyer says she and her children are ill after a suspicious substance was found in their car in France.- 4:10 AM
The British pair on trial for sex on the beach deny going all the way, but even a snuggle in the sand is too much in this Persian Gulf city. Although Dubai sells itself as a party hot spot, its Arab population hews to conservative Muslim values.- 2:44 PM
A gunfight broke out between Thai and Cambodian troops at a disputed border zone Wednesday, escalating a conflict that officials from both sides fear could result in a war between the neighbors.- 5:15 AM
Omar strengthened into a hurricane late Tuesday and drenched islands in the southeastern Caribbean, downing trees and blowing off a school's roof as it menaced U.S. islands.- 1:10 AM
Ukrainian authorities have asked the International Monetary Fund for help in stemming a financial crisis in the country, the organization said Wednesday.- 4:45 AM
Thousands of Christians from around the world, waving blue and white Israeli flags, marched Wednesday in a colorful holiday parade in Jerusalem to commemorate a Jewish holiday and show their support for Israel.- 2:39 PM
A maritime official says armed pirates have hijacked a bulk carrier with 21 crew members in the Gulf of Aden near Somalia.- 5:45 AM
The Group of Eight major industrial nations announced Wednesday they will hold a global summit - perhaps as early as November in New York - to forge common action to prevent another economic meltdown.- 4:45 PM
The first high-level talks between Russia and Georgia since their war broke down Wednesday, but international sponsors said the negotiations had only hit a procedural snag and will resume next month.- 12:03 PM
It all seemed like the stirrings of a major political challenge to Iran's firebrand President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: schoolchildren serenaded the popular reformist leader he replaced and a hometown audience chanted Wednesday: "Our next president."- 4:40 PM
A drunk man claiming to have a bomb tried to hijack a Russian-bound Turkish Airlines plane on Wednesday but fellow passengers quickly overpowered him, officials said.- 12:29 PM
A worsening economic crisis in Pakistan is pushing millions more people into poverty, and experts fear that it could help Islamic extremists recruit new converts.- 8:15 AM
East German leader Erich Honecker famously proclaimed in 1989 that the Berlin Wall could remain in place for another 100 years.- 12:39 PM
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, widely credited with inspiring financial bailout plans around the world, is reaching further with calls for a coordinated overhaul of international financial regulation. His ideas are getting a closer look after the Bush administration's decision Monday to partially nationalize banks, a step Britain took a week ago.- 12:05 AM
The Dalai Lama has recovered from surgery to remove gallstones and will resume his travel schedule by the end of the month, a senior aide said Wednesday.- 11:49 AM
