BAGHDAD - Representatives of anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and legislators from Iraq's main Shiite political bloc have signed a ceasefire agreement. Officials say the four-day truce signed Monda...

CHONGQING, China - A massive earthquake struck central China on Monday, killing more than 7,600 people and trapping nearly 900 students under the rubble of their school, raising fears the overall deat...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif has announced that his party is withdrawing from Pakistan's cabinet. The move raises doubts over the government's stability and Pakistan's t...

YANGON, Myanmar - The United States delivered its first relief supplies to Myanmar on Monday, as the UN urged the reclusive country to open its doors to foreign experts who could help up to two millio...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court says it can't intervene in an important dispute over the rights of apartheid victims to sue American corporations in U.S. courts. The reason is that four of the ...

BRATUNAC, Bosnia-Herzegovina - Thousands of mourners gathered Monday in eastern Bosnia to rebury the remains of 41 Bosnian Muslims slaughtered and swept into mass graves by Serb forces in the 1990s. ...

BEIJING - Thousands of people were feared dead Monday in an earthquake in southwestern China's Sichuan province that was so powerful it rocked office towers in Beijing some 1,500 kilometres away, the ...

BEIJING - Five more children have died of hand, foot and mouth disease in China, bringing the death toll to 39 since late March. The official Xinhua News Agency says a girl died in eastern Anhui pr...

BEIJING - More than 100 people are now reported dead in an earthquake in southwestern China that was so powerful it rocked buildings 1,500 kilometres away in Beijing. The official Xinhau news agenc...

KABUL - Afghanistan's top civilian counterterrorism official has been suspended in connection with last month's attempted assassination of President Hamid Karzai. Authorities say Abdul Manan Farahi...