Finland's Martti Ahtisaari wins Nobel Peace Prize
By DOUG MELLGREN and MATTI HUUHTANEN
Associated Press Writers
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Finland's ex-president Martti Ahtisaari received the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his efforts to build a lasting peace from Africa and Asia to Europe and the ...
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Intel report: Afghanistan facing 'downward spiral'
By PAMELA HESS
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The situation in Afghanistan now is the worst since the U.S.-led invasion of 2001 and the country is in danger of a "downward spiral" into violence and chaos, according to an intellige ...
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US: Libya begins payments for US terror victims
By MATTHEW LEE
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Libya has started making payments into a nearly $2 billion fund to compensate the families of American victims of Libyan-linked terror attacks in the 1980s, another step in the full norma ...
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Suspected US missile strike reported in Pakistan
By ISHTIAQ MAHSUD
Associated Press Writer
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) -- A suspected U.S. missile strike targeted two areas in a Pakistani tribal region near the Afghanistan border on Thursday, killing at least nine people, Pakistani intell ...
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France's Le Clezio wins Nobel literature prize
By MATT MOORE and KARL RITTER
Associated Press Writers
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) -- French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio won the 2008 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for his poetic adventure and "sensual ecstasy."
The Swedish Academy ...
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Bombs aimed at police kill 10, hurt 14 in Pakistan
By ZARAR KHAN
Associated Press Writer
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Bombings killed 10 people and wounded at least four in Pakistan on Thursday, including an attack in a police complex in the capital the same day lawmakers huddled for a private ...
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Iraq: Senior lawmaker wounded by bomb in Baghdad
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA
Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD (AP) -- A bomb struck a convoy carrying lawmakers loyal to anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Thursday in Baghdad, seriously wounding a senior member of the Shiite bloc, officials said.
T ...
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10,000 Chinese children still sick from milk
By GILLIAN WONG
Associated Press Writer
BEIJING (AP) -- More than 10,000 children remained hospitalized after being sickened in China's tainted milk scandal, eight of whom were in serious condition, officials said.
The Health Ministry said in a s ...
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1 Japanese, 2 Americans win Nobel chemistry prize
By KARL RITTER and MATT MOORE
Associated Press Writers
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) -- Two Americans and one Japanese won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for the discovery and development of a brightly glowing protein first seen in jellyfi ...
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Russian forces in final pullback in Georgia
By MATT SIEGEL
Associated Press Writer
KARALETI, Georgia (AP) -- Russian forces pulled back from positions outside Georgia's separatist South Ossetia region, bulldozing a camp at a key checkpoint and withdrawing as European Union monitors followed. ...
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Asian stocks plunge on fears of global recession
By TOMOKO A. HOSAKA
Associated Press Writer
TOKYO (AP) -- A meltdown in confidence strangled Asian stock markets Wednesday on accelerating fears that the widening financial crisis could spawn a global recession.
After a miserable day on Wall ...
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Calm returns to Bangkok after deadly rioting
By SUTIN WANNABOVORN
Associated Press Writer
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Soldiers stood guard on street corners Wednesday as an uneasy calm returned to Bangkok after fierce clashes between anti-government protesters and police left at least two dead ...
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