Diplomatic push to end ethnic strife in Kenya

NAIROBI (AFP) - Diplomatic efforts accelerated Wednesday to resolve the crisis in Kenya, where post-election violence has threatened to escalate into tribal war, with tens of thousands displaced and hundreds murdered. The dispute over last week's president... full story

updated Tue November 06, 2007

Dodgers to introduce Torre as manager

LOS ANGELES - Joe Torre will be front and center for his first day in a Los Angeles Dodgers uniform. The new manager's introductory news conference Monday was ...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

Couple from Hell wins Halloween lottery

HELL, Mich. - Life in Hell just got a little easier for John and Sue Wilson. The couple, who live in the unincorporated town 45 miles west of Detroit, were ble...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

MySpace expands program for targeted ads

NEW YORK - The popular online hangout MySpace is expanding its program for letting advertisers target their pitches using personal details on users' profile pa...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

Lack of sleep may lead to fatter kids

CHICAGO - Here's another reason to get the kids to bed early: More sleep may lower their risk of becoming obese. Researchers have found that every additional h...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

Stocks pull back amid credit worries

NEW YORK - Stocks fell but regained some ground Monday as a stronger-than-expected reading on the service economy mitigated concerns about soured debt that spr...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

Oprah wept at learning of school assault

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Oprah Winfrey said Monday she wept after hearing allegations that a dorm matron at her academy for disadvantaged girls had abused ...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

Abbas: all sides want peace

RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Monday that all sides want to reach a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians before Pres...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

Shuttle begins journey home

HOUSTON - After a week and a half of intense and unprecedented work, the astronauts aboard shuttle Discovery undocked from the international space station on M...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

Picketing under way in TV writers strike

NEW YORK - Noisy pickets appeared outside the "Today" show set on Monday as a strike by film and television writers got under way. ...

updated Tue November 06, 2007

Thousands face down Pakistani police

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Police fired tear gas and clubbed thousands of lawyers protesting President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's decision to impose emergency rule, as...

updated Sat November 03, 2007

Deadly Hurricane Noel churns north toward Canada

SANTO DOMINGO (AFP) - Hurricane Noel on Friday churned over the Atlantic Ocean on a northerly track to Canada after battering the Caribbean where it killed at...

updated Sat November 03, 2007

Tamil Tiger political chief killed in Sri Lanka air strike

COLOMBO (AFP) - Sri Lanka struck a major blow against the Tamil Tigers Friday, killing the rebels' political chief and top peace negotiator in a surgical ...

updated Sat November 03, 2007

Japan government deadlocked over Afghan mission

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda struggled on Friday to break a deadlock that has halted a refueling mission in support of U.S.-led oper...

updated Sat November 03, 2007

Missile strike adds to Pakistan's complications

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani villagers said a missile strike hit houses near a madrasa founded by an old friend of Osama bin Laden's on Friday, killing...

updated Sat November 03, 2007

Hollywood writers edge closer to strike

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Negotiators representing Hollywood's screenwriters have recommended the union go on strike for the first time in two decades, a mo...

updated Sat November 03, 2007

Russia's "chessboard killer": Punishment too harsh

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's "chessboard killer" has appealed his life sentence, saying he thinks spending the rest of his life in jail is too st...

updated Sat November 03, 2007

Israel seeks deal with Palestinians within a year

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert hopes to agree a peace deal with the Palestinians before President George W. Bush leaves office, an I...

updated Sat November 03, 2007

Russia raps Saudi atomic fuel proposal for Iran: RIA

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's nuclear chief on Friday said only full nuclear powers should create centers for enriching uranium, in a swipe at a Saudi propo...

updated Sat November 03, 2007

Police probe series of fires near Capitol

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Capitol Police are investigating a series of small fires that have occurred over the past month in Senate office buildings, mostly in w...

updated Sat November 03, 2007

Rice: Kurdish rebels are 'common threat'

ANKARA, Turkey - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice assured Turkish officials Friday that Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq were a "common threat" and tha...