>RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - On foot, in cars and in donkey carts, tens of thousands of Gazans flooded into Egypt on Wednesday through a border fence blown up by militants - puncturing a gaping hole in...

.KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The number of students and teachers killed in Taliban attacks has tripled in the past year in a campaign to close schools and force teenage boys to join the Islamic militia,...

;NEW YORK (AP) - On a day meant for celebration in Hollywood, Heath Ledger, one of film's bright young stars, was found dead at age 28, his promising career extinguished just as it was reaching full expression. Hours...

.MIAMI (AP) - Jose Padilla, an American once accused of plotting with al-Qaida to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb," was sentenced Tuesday to a relatively lenient 17-year prison term on unrelated terror...

>BEIJING (AP) - China's senior safety inspector urged the public and the media Tuesday to expose workplace accidents in a bid to end corruption and official misdeeds aggravating the country's high rate...

>HAVANA (AP) - The new parliament chosen by Cuban voters could ultimately send ailing 81-year-old Fidel Castro into permanent retirement. As results came in Monday, there was no doubt that voters in...

>BEIJING (AP) - Unusually heavy snowfall in central China has been blamed for at least 15 deaths and has stranded hundreds of thousands of people ahead of the peak Lunar New Year travel season, state...

;AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) - Sherpas laid prayer scarves on the coffin of Edmund Hillary Tuesday as thousands across New Zealand bid farewell to the Mount Everest conqueror. About 500 New Zealand and...

>CORONA, Calif. (AP) - Investigators walked through rows of vehicles at a car dealership Monday inspecting wreckage from a deadly collision of two small planes that rained debris and bodies down on...