A temporary cease-fire seemed to be in place in the holy city of Najaf on August 14, while envoys of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr negotiated with Iraq’s interim government to end the fighting, reported AP.
The Minneapolis Fire Chief said on Friday it was a miracle that only five people had so far been confirmed dead in the collapse of one of the city’s main road bridges over the Mississippi River.
Iran rejected the presence of foreign troops in Afghanistan, apparently putting it sharply at odds with Washington before Tuesday’s first major conference on Kabul since President Barack Obama unveiled his strategy.
A U.S. Marine faces a court martial on charges of kidnapping and raping a 14-year-old schoolgirl on Japan’s southern island of Okinawa in February, U.S. military officials said on Friday.
Two people were killed and nearly 30 wounded in India’s Assam state when suspected rebels threw grenades in a market and blew up gas pipelines, the latest attack ahead of peace talks, officials said Sunday.
A Los Angeles woman whose son accused pop star Michael Jackson of sexual abuse last year in a sensational trial pleaded no contest to welfare fraud on Monday and has agreed to repay more than $8,600.
On any given day in Baghdad, Iraqi police can be expected to report finding up to 50 bodies shot, tortured and dumped in the streets of the capital, but on Saturday only five were found, police said on Sunday.
The Philippines announced it would begin to withdraw troops from Iraq July 16 in a bid to save the life of a Filipino hostage, despite U.S. appeal not to bow to the abductors demands.
The reported death toll from a coal mine blast in Chinas Shaanxi province Nov. 28 has risen to 166, becoming one of the worst disasters to hit the country this year.
Europes unemployment rate rose to the highest in a decade in May as airlines, banks and builders cut jobs to survive a recession thats led to soaring losses and fueled bankruptcies.
