A strong, pre-dawn earthquake knocked down stone and mud-brick houses, barns and minarets in eastern Turkey yesterday, killing 51 people in five villages, the government said.The earthquake surprised many residents as they slept,…

A New Zealander who saved two of his British Army colleagues from a Taleban grenade attack is being hailed as a hero.Rifleman James McKie, 29, scooped up a live grenade and hurled it away just seconds before it exploded during…

Cypriot authorities have found the body of former president Tassos Papadopoulos three months after it was snatched from his grave on the Mediterranean island, state-run media has said.

Scott Brown said today one of his first tasks as a U.S. senator was a sad one: helping return the body of Haiti…

GENEVA – Large sporting events such as the World Cup and the Olympic Games force people from their homes or price them out of the housing market, a UN human rights investigator said today.Raquel Rolnik cited reports that more…

Andrée Peel, a female member of the World War II Resistance who is credited with saving the lives of more than 100 Allied airmen in Nazi-occupied France, has died at 105.Peel died at a care home in Bristol, southwest England,…

WORCESTER – The original 1898 curators of the Worcester Art Museum could hardly have imagined that 112 years later…

NASIRIYAH, Iraq – American bomb disposal experts in Iraq say few people – even in armed forces – long knew what…

DENVER – A rock slide punched holes through a vital stretch of the interstate highway system early today, cutting…

The killers showed no mercy: They didn’t spare women and children, or even a 4-day-old baby, from their machetes. Women wailed in the streets as a dump truck carried dozens of bodies past burned-out homes toward a mass grave.Rubber-gloved…