Rebels appeared to be pulling back as promised Wednesday in an area home to some of the world’s last remaining mountain gorillas, offering some hope that Congo’s latest war may be easing.
A group of college students who lit a ridge-top bonfire are being accused of accidentally sparking one of a trio of once-ferocious wildfires that collectively destroyed about 1,000 homes and blacked more than 65 square miles.
Stories of alleged beatings and sexual abuse prompted Arkansas child-welfare officials to take custody of about 20 more children associated with the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, an official said Wednesday.
The British government announced plans Wednesday to make it illegal to pay for sex with women forced into prostitution and to name men who solicit sex on the streets – measures that prostitutes say will put more women at risk.
Wall Street fluctuated Tuesday, as investors refrained from making big bets in a volatile market battered by a stream of weak economic data.
NATO troops in eastern Afghanistan fired 20 artillery rounds at insurgents inside Pakistan in an attack the alliance said was coordinated with the government in Islamaba
Outgoing and incoming Washington crossed paths on Capitol Hill on Monday, as lawmakers-to-be trod the same pillared hallways as the members of Congress they defeated, the Senate convened without President-elect Barack Obama and a familiar face returned.
Iraq’s prime minister went on national television Tuesday to defend a security pact with the United States that keeps U.S. forces in Iraq through 2011 and assure neighbors that Iraqi territory would not be used to attack them.
President-elect Barack Obama and former Republican rival John McCain pledged Monday to work together on ways to change Washington’s “bad habits,” though aides to both men said it was unlikely McCain would serve in an Obama Cabinet.
Astronauts aboard the international space station and the newly arrived shuttle Endeavour planned Monday to start unpacking a new toilet and a contraption that purifies urine and sweat into drinkable water at the orbiting outpost.
Analysts, investors and media around Asia expressed concern Monday that a weekend summit of world leaders aimed at tackling the global financial crisis – and preventing future debacles – was high on symbolism but low on action.
Firefighters aided by Mother Nature continued to make gains early Monday on three raging wildfires that reduced hundreds of homes to ash and cinders and forced thousands of residents to flee in Southern California.
Space shuttle Endeavour closed in for a 220-mile-high linkup with the international space station on Sunday, hauling gear for a huge home makeover that will allow twice as many astronauts to live up there beginning next year.
An Iraqi government spokesman says the Cabinet has approved a security pact with the United States that will allow American forces to stay in Iraq for three years after their U.N. mandate expires at the end of the year.
A powerful earthquake struck waters off eastern Indonesia early Monday, briefly generating tsunami warnings for coastlines within 600 miles of the epicenter.
More residents of Southern California were urged to leave their homes Sunday despite calming winds that allowed a major aerial attack on wildfires that have destroyed hundreds of homes and blanketed the region in smoke.
Safety investigators said more than a half million pounds of construction materials had been piled on the Interstate 35W bridge directly above steel plates on the day they failed, causing the Minneapolis bridge to collapse.
Prosecutors filed a murder charge Thursday against the man accused of imprisoning his daughter for 24 years and fathering her seven children, saying one of the youngsters who died in infancy might have survived if brought to a doctor.
Sarah Palin called on fellow Republican governors to keep the new president and his strengthened Democratic majority in check on issues from taxes to health care as she signaled she’ll take a leadership role in a party searching for a new standard-bearer.
North Korea’s powerful military announced Wednesday it will shut the country’s border with the South on Dec. 1 – a marked escalation of threats against Seoul’s new conservative government at a time of heightened tension on the peninsula.
