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Buddhists from 2 Koreas to hold joint ceremony
South Korean Buddhist monks headed to North Korea on Saturday for a joint ceremony with monks there, showing the countries continue civil exchange despite a bloody naval skirmish earlier this month.
updated: 46 minutes ago

Researcher: Faint writing seen on Shroud of Turin
A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus. Experts say the historian may be reading too much into the markings, and they stand by carbon-dating that points to the shroud being a medieval forgery.
updated: 1 hour, 9 minutes ago

Chavez praises Carlos the Jackal
Hugo Chavez is defending alleged terrorist mastermind Carlos the Jackal, saying the Venezuelan imprisoned in France was a "revolutionary fighter" rather than a terrorist.
updated: 1 hour, 35 minutes ago

China says 31 dead, 82 trapped in mine explosion
A gas explosion tore through a coal mine in northern China on Saturday, killing 31 people and trapping 82 others nearly a third of a mile under ground, government authorities said.
updated: 1 hour, 40 minutes ago

Blast near aid office wounds 1 in NW Pakistan
An explosion struck the office of an aid organization in northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border on Saturday, wounding a security guard, police said.
updated: 2 hours, 24 minutes ago

Museum: Galileo's fingers, tooth are found
Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, an Italian museum director said Friday.
updated: Nov 20th - 10:53pm

Pro-Castro mob attacks spouse of top Cuban blogger
The husband of an acclaimed dissident Cuban blogger was punched and shouted down by a pro-government mob Friday after he challenged the presumed state agents who earlier roughed up his wife to a street corner debate.
updated: Nov 20th - 8:38pm

Mexico shifts strategy in border city violence
Mexico's top domestic security official said Friday that sectors of the general public have cooperated with drug cartels in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez, and the government is about to launch new social programs there to combat gangs.
updated: Nov 20th - 8:06pm

Argentina forces dirty war orphans to provide DNA
Valuing truth over the right to privacy, Argentina's Congress has authorized the forced extraction of DNA from people who may have been born to political prisoners slain a quarter-century ago _ even when they don't want to know their birth parents.
updated: Nov 20th - 6:29pm

Floods devastate UK Lake District, much of Ireland
Raging floods engulfed northern England's picturesque Lake District on Friday following the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in Britain, killing a police officer and trapping dozens in their swamped homes.
updated: Nov 20th - 6:22pm

McCain urges Obama to speed up Afghan decision
U.S. Sen. John McCain predicted success in the Afghan war effort Friday if President Barack Obama makes a decision quickly to send the reinforcements requested by his top commander there.
updated: Nov 20th - 5:14pm

Afghan police are weak link in security force
Underpaid, under-equipped and under-trained, Afghanistan's 93,000-member police force is the weak link in an ambitious security strategy to hand over defense of the country to Afghans so American and other foreign troops can go home.
updated: Nov 20th - 5:08pm

Lesbian US war deserter wins stay of deportation
A lesbian who deserted the U.S. military and fled to Canada must be given another chance to plead her case for refugee status, Canada's Federal Court ruled Friday.
updated: Nov 20th - 5:08pm

6 world powers press Iran on nuclear issue
Representatives of six world powers urged Iran on Friday to accept a U.N. plan aimed at delaying its ability to build a nuclear weapon, as the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency warned Tehran not to miss the opportunity to resolve the dispute.
updated: Nov 20th - 4:46pm

Mexican reporter on organized crime goes missing
Authorities in the western Mexican state of Michoacan are investigating the disappearance of a journalist who wrote about organized crime.
updated: Nov 20th - 4:23pm

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