.RAFAH, Egypt (AP) - Hamas militants joined Egyptian forces for a second day Monday in trying to restore control at three breaches in the Gaza border, building a chain-link fence to seal off one opening...

>SANTA MARIA QUIEGOLANI, Mexico (AP) - Women in this Indian village high in the pine-clad mountains of Oaxaca rise each morning at 4 a.m. to gather firewood, grind corn, prepare the day's food, care...

.BANDAR ABBAS, Iran (AP) - Each day, the boulevard in this port city derisively dubbed "OPEC Street" is lined with dozens of vendors selling plastic jugs of black-market gasoline to desperate drivers who...

Coffman Union's Great Hall was aglow Saturday night in "lucky red" for the Chinese American Student Association's annual Chinese New Year Celebration. The festive show encompassed the most fundamental...

>CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - Protesters tried to force their way Thursday into the court hearing of a white teenager charged with a shooting rampage in a black settlement that left four people dead,...

.BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) - Brazil will combat rising deforestation in the Amazon by sending extra federal police and environmental agents to areas where illegal clearing of the rain forest jumped dramatically...

.NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - As Kenyans die by the hundreds in gritty city slums and rolling cornfields in the countryside, their fate rests with two men who appear more intent on the struggle for power than...