L'AQUILA, Italy (AP) âÄî Rescue workers using bare hands and buckets searched frantically for students believed buried in a wrecked dormitory after Italy's deadliest quake in nearly three decades...

BEIJING (AP) âÄî China announced Monday the outlines of a thorough reform of the health care system that pledges to provide improved services to all citizens by 2020, tackling a critical issue...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) âÄî North Korea's new rocket launch gives the communist country another bargaining chip in negotiations over dismantling its nuclear weapons program even if the flight wasn't...

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) âÄî Prosecutors dropped their corruption case Monday against Jacob Zuma, clearing the way for him to become South Africa's next president but leaving behind questions...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) âÄî Declaring the U.S. "is not and never will be at war with Islam," President Barack Obama worked Monday to mend frayed ties with NATO ally Turkey and improve relations with...

MOSCOW (AP) âÄî The assassin of a renegade Chechen warlord tossed a gold-plated pistol to the ground next to the body âÄî a flamboyant coda to the death in Dubai that marked the removal...

JERUSALEM (AP) âÄî Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said his government would immediately get to work on Mideast peace issues, promising to present a diplomatic agenda in the...

BAGHDAD (AP) âÄî Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas won assurances Sunday that Iraqi leaders will protect Palestinians living in Iraq âÄî including thousands stranded in desert refugee...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) âÄî South Korea's presidential office says North Korea's satellite did not reach orbit as the communist nation claims. North Korea earlier claimed success in launching a...