COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -- Gunmen shot and killed the mayor of Jaffna, a former Tamil rebel stronghold, in an ambush Sunday at her home. Mayor Sarojini Yogeswaran, the first Jaffna mayor elected in 15...

One might think that Fred Rodgers' nerves would be so shot from trying to outthink opposing quarterbacks that he wouldn't be any good for the Minnesota track team. Yet there was Rodgers on Saturday at...

NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- Now that India says it has the ability to produce a nuclear bomb, it is perfecting missiles to carry one, the government's top nuclear scientist said Sunday. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam...

Visitors to St. Stephen's Catholic Church in Minneapolis were treated to a meager dinner Sunday to better experience current food shortages in Iraq. The Iraq Peace Action Coalition served a dinner of...

AT THE END OF THE MALL Net: We try to manage debates on this forum so they have a chance to develop without making people's eyes glaze over. We're starting to get glassy-eyed over Mall preachers. Thus,...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Taliban jet fighters bombed a crowded market Sunday in northern Afghanistan, killing at least 30 people and wounding nearly 50 others, a spokesman for opposition soldiers said. Jets...

HEBRON, West Bank (AP) -- Palestinian youths threw stones and bottles Sunday at Israeli troops who responded with rubber bullets, wounding six Palestinians in a fourth day of West Bank clashes. The latest...

In a few short weeks, University administrators will add another big name to the list of speakers that have appeared on campus. The impending arrival of Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was recently...

It was a visit to Emily Eelkema's high school by University professors that propelled her interest in aerospace engineering. On Saturday, the Institute of Technology senior returned the favor. As a fund-raising...

U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan berated the United States for its outstanding debt to the United Nations during the Macalaster College commencement Sunday. The 1961 Macalaster graduate informed about...