KANSAS CITY, Kan. - Raechelle Romero was always running from something, starting at 15: from tough relationships with her dad and stepmother, foster homes, abusive boyfriends. Eventually, the troub...

BEIRUT - Lebanon hung between fears of all-out civil war and hopes of political compromise Sunday even as government supporters and opponents battled with rockets and machine-guns in the mountains ove...

YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar's monumental task of feeding and sheltering 1.5 million cyclone survivors suffered yet another blow Sunday when a boat laden with relief supplies - one of the first internati...

HARARE, Zimbabwe - The presidential run-off election pitting President Robert Mugabe against opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will not take place in the next few weeks as required by law, the head ...

As the bloated bodies rise and fall with the current on the Pyapon River, women scrub clothes along the river bank, villagers bathe to cool themselves and a lone child sits on a dock staring aimlessly...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - It isn't visible from the road for obvious reasons. The field is set back behind a tree line at least half a kilometre from a busy highway that connects Kandahar city with a...

WACO, Texas - President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush didn't share their daughter's wedding with the world on Saturday. But Bush eagerly shared their joy on Sunday over the marriage of d...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Canadian military engineers have taken the first step in plans to rebuild dilapidated apartments that serve as barracks for Afghan National Army soldiers and their families in ...

ISTANBUL, Turkey - Emine Yaman lies in bed, her legs rigid, her feet prone to sores and swelling. Paralyzed by a bullet her husband fired into her chest, she is the face of domestic violence in a coun...

MADISON, Wis. - A medical helicopter has crashed in Wisconsin, killing three people on board. The dead include a doctor, a nurse and the pilot. A spokesman at the University of Wisconsin Hospita...