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    • Chavez praises Carlos the Jackal

      Hugo Chavez is defending alleged terrorist mastermind Carlos the Jackal, saying the Venezuelan imprisoned in France was a "revolutionary fighter" rather than a terrorist.

    • China says 31 dead, 82 trapped in mine explosion

      A gas explosion tore through a coal mine in northern China on Saturday, killing 31 people and trapping 82 others nearly a third of a mile under ground, government authorities said.

    • Blast near aid office wounds 1 in NW Pakistan

      An explosion struck the office of an aid organization in northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border on Saturday, wounding a security guard, police said.

    • Blast near aid offices wounds 1 in NW Pakistan

      A security guard has been wounded in an explosion outside the office of a non-governmental organization in the main city in northwestern Pakistan.
      Police chief Liaquat Ali Khan says Saturday's explosion occurred near the office's perimeter wall at about 7 a.m. in Peshawar.

    • China says 15 dead, 114 trapped in mine explosion

      A gas explosion tore through a coal mine in northern China on Saturday, killing 15 people and trapping another 114 nearly a third of a mile under ground, central government authorities said.

    • Europe: Proton beams circulate in Big Bang machine

      Scientists switched on the world's largest atom smasher Friday night for the first time since the $10 billion machine suffered a spectacular failure more than a year ago.

    • Museum: Galileo's fingers, tooth are found

      Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, an Italian museum director said Friday.

    • Researcher: Faint writing seen on Shroud of Turin

      A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus. Experts say the historian may be reading too much into the markings, and they stand by carbon-dating that points to the shroud being a...

    • Chinese authorities say 11 people confirmed dead in coal mine explosion, 128 trapped.

    • Pro-Castro mob attacks spouse of top Cuban blogger

      The husband of an acclaimed dissident Cuban blogger was punched and shouted down by a pro-government mob Friday after he challenged the presumed state agents who earlier roughed up his wife to a street corner debate.

    • Mexico shifts strategy in border city violence

      Mexico's top domestic security official said Friday that sectors of the general public have cooperated with drug cartels in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez, and the government is about to launch new social programs there to combat gangs.

    • Report: Bangladeshi mom doesn't want twins back

      The mother of recently separated conjoined Bangladeshi twins does not want custody of the daughters she gave up for adoption and wants them to have new lives in Australia, newspapers reported Saturday.

    • Argentina forces dirty war orphans to provide DNA

      Valuing truth over the right to privacy, Argentina's Congress has authorized the forced extraction of DNA from people who may have been born to political prisoners slain a quarter-century ago - even when they don't want to know their birth parents.

    • Floods devastate UK Lake District, much of Ireland

      Raging floods engulfed northern England's picturesque Lake District on Friday following the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in Britain, killing a police officer and trapping dozens in their swamped homes.

    • Indian boy mirrors plight of millions of kids

      Arun Kumar was born to disabled parents, beaten by his grandparents, ran away from home, got a job in a garment factory and had all his savings stolen by the police.
      He was only 11.
      Today, at 13, he shares a cramped, dingy shelter with 63 other runaways and former street kids in New Delhi.

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