Iranianofficials on Sunday ruled out an attack as the cause of an explosionthat killed 11 people in the southern city of Shiraz, saying it was anaccident that was likely caused by leftover ammunition.The explosion ripped through a mosque packed with

American Airlines on Saturday received clearance from federalaviation officials to return all of its 300 grounded jets to service,said an airline spokesman.After 200 cancellations Saturday morning, Fort Worth-based Americanwas running a full schedule by the afternoon with no cancellations,said spokesman

South Korea's government confirmed a fourth outbreak of the H5N1bird flu virus in the country's southwest Sunday, as the tally of birdsslaughtered to control the spread of the disease rose to 1.3 million.Government tests confirmed the latest H5N1 outbreak at

James P. Hoffa stood outside the brick Hershey candy factory here in Reading, Pennsylvania, one day last week and tried to sell Sen. Barack Obama toa cluster of Teamsters who are losing their jobs because the company isgoing to start

An $833 million Iraqi arms deal secretly negotiated with Serbia hasunderscored Iraq's continuing problems equipping its armed forces, aprocess that has long been plagued by corruption and inefficiency.The deal was struck in September without competitive bidding and itsidestepped anti-corruption safeguards,

Less than a year ago, Abu Hammed worked in a garment factory, sewingpants.Now he totes a Kalashnikov assault rifle as a Hamas policeofficer, imposing order in this eerily desolate city on behalf of thearmed Islamist movement.Given a choice, he'd rather

The Iraqi government has dismissed about 1,300 soldiers andpolicemen who deserted or refused to fight during last month'soffensive against Shiite militias and criminal gangs in Basra,officials said Sunday.Interior Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen.Abdul-Karim Khalaf said 921 police and soldiers were fired

Democratic Party officials want a federal judge to order an investigation into whether Sen. John McCain violated election laws by withdrawing from public financing, saying federal regulators are too weak to act on their own.A lawsuit against the Federal Election

For more than two decades, 250 historians and specialists labored toproduce the first six volumes of the General History of Latin America,an exhaustive work financed by the United Nations Educational,Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the U.N. organizationcreated to preserve global

Major upheavals in the Cylon fleet, Kara gets a new mission from the old man, and Laura reinvents hardcore. Again.

Four people were injured when a bar fight ended with a shooting rampage at a South Side bar Sunday morning.

A 23-year-old man was killed in a fight with his girlfriend's father Saturday afternoon on the West Side.

A 27-year-old man was killed and two other men wounded in a shooting at a party in the Washington Park area on the South Side Saturday night.

China has arrested nine monks for allegedly bombing a government building in Lhasa, as Beijing ratcheted up the rhetoric against the Dalai Lama clique and on critics, over its crackdown in Tibet.The nine monks were arrested for bombing a government

Out of the 73 results declared so far, CPN-Maoists bagged 43 seats, CPN-UML - 12, Nepali Congress of Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala - 10, Madhesi People's Rights Forum - 5, Nepal Workers and Peasants Party - 2 and Terai

Pelosi had angered Beijing when she met the Dalai Lama in India recently and gave her solid backing to the Tibetan movement. Her initiative in proposing a US House resolution on Tibet, urging Beijing to end its crackdown, has further

Congress is the biggest party in the UPA. There is no question of NCP, Dravida Munnettra Kazhagam or Rashtriya Janata Dal or any other party coming close to their numbers and if tomorrow Congress decides to nominate Mrs Gandhi or

Researchers have identified 108 species found since the first discovery was named in 1824 and believe that the variety of creatures make Britain an important area for dinosaur remains."We're probably in the top five places in the world for concentrations

The hacked website, built eight years ago, is the on-line platform of the exiled Tibetan government's press releases, and official news reports. It crashed on April 11.Tibetan exiles said they did not know who had hacked into the website but

The labourers, who were using heavy equipment, had no time to escape when a 50-feet-high mound of soil caved in. Villagers rushed to the spot to pull out the trapped labourers from under the debris. Revenue and police personnel also