Nation and World
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Judge rules against pilot in civil suit over bombing
Sep 22, 2007 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- A federal judge has ruled against an Illinois pilot who sued the Air Force for allegedly ruining his reputation in a friendly fire bombing in Afghanistan ...
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Investigators say shots unprovoked
Sep 22, 2007 11:00 pm - BAGHDAD -- Iraqi investigators have a videotape that shows Blackwater USA guards opened fire against civilians without provocation in a shooting last week that left 11 p...
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Japan elects leader today
Sep 22, 2007 11:00 pm - TOKYO -- The candidates battling to be the next prime minister of Japan wound down their campaigns Saturday, stumping for rural votes outside Tokyo and then moving to th...
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Protesting monks meet democracy icon
Sep 22, 2007 11:00 pm - YANGON, Myanmar -- The wave of anti-government demonstrations sweeping Myanmar touched the doorstep of democracy heroine Aung San Suu Kyi Saturday as Buddhist monks marc...
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Journey ends at ancient meeting place
Sep 22, 2007 11:00 pm - BUDAPEST, Hungary -- He scared off wolves with firecrackers in Mongolia and rescued his dog from hungry miners in Kazakhstan. But after three years on horseback, Tim Cop...
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Iranian leader brings hostility
Sep 22, 2007 11:00 pm - TEHRAN, Iran -- Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrives in New York today enveloped in controversy, mostly of his own making. His request to lay a wreath at the Wo...
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Fugitive Fujimori returned to Peru
Sep 22, 2007 11:00 pm - LIMA, Peru -- Former President Alberto Fujimori was extradited Saturday from Chile to face charges of corruption and sanctioning death-squad killings, a grim homecoming ...
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Council meets over sanctionsSep 22, 2007 11:00 pm - Major powers, meeting in Washington, said on Friday they had "serious and constructive" talks about new U.N. Security Council sanctions aimed at trying to force Iran to ...
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Winning war by winning hearts
Sep 22, 2007 11:00 pm - BAGHDAD -- Six Humvees rolled into one of the poor neighborhoods that share Baghdad's northern fringe with groves of date palms, and school teacher Mustafa Hassan climbe...
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Is your number on no-call list?
Sep 22, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The cherished dinner hour void of telemarketers could vanish next year for millions of people when phone numbers begin dropping off the national Do Not Cal...