Congo refugees suffer shooting, rape, lootingLooting soldiers tried to rape one woman and fatally shot another at a refugee camp, witnesses said Friday, as the United Nations prepared to send more peacekeepers to help protect traumatized civi
Tibetan exiles debate the future of the movementOut of the hundreds of Tibetan leaders who have flocked here for a pivotal summit on Tibet's future, few understand the hardships there better than a recently arrived barley farmer.
UN: Congo refugees suffer shooting, rape, lootingShootings, looting and rape plague the already desperate lives of refugees in eastern Congo, where people caught between soldiers and rebels live in constant fear, U.N. officials said Friday.
Bulgarian archaeologists discover ancient chariotArchaeologists have unearthed a well-preserved 1,800-year-old bronze chariot at an ancient Thracian tomb in southeastern Bulgaria, the head of the excavation said Friday.
Rocket hits Israeli town, Gaza still sealedIsraeli police say Palestinian militants have fired a rocket at an Israeli town near the Gaza Strip. No casualties have been reported.
Blast kills 8 mourners at Pakistani funeralA blast killed at least eight mourners Friday at the funeral of a Shiite cleric in northwestern Pakistan who was gunned down hours earlier, police said. At least 28 others were wounded.
China says 19,000 students died in May earthquakeChina acknowledged Friday for the first time that more than 19,000 schoolchildren were among the dead in the massive earthquake that struck Sichuan province in May.
Bulgarian archaeologists unearth ancient chariotArchaeologists have unearthed an elaborately decorated 1,800-year-old chariot sheathed in bronze at an ancient Thracian tomb in southeastern Bulgaria, the head of the excavation said Friday.
Myanmar court hands comedian 45-year prison termMyanmar's courts continued a crackdown on activists Friday, handing out a 45-year prison sentence to a comedian who went to the delta to help cyclone victims and criticized the junta's slow relief
Mexico: Former drug czar took cartel moneyMexico's former drug czar was accused Friday of taking $450,000 from a powerful cartel, further evidence the country's drug gangs are being protected by the highest levels of government.
China: 19,000 victims identified from May quakeA little over a quarter of the 70,000 people who died in a massive earthquake that struck Sichuan province in May have been identified, a Chinese official said Friday, as authorities rushed to prep
Shiites in Baghdad protest planned US-Iraq pactThousands of protesters have converged on a central square in Baghdad for a mass prayer called by Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in protest of a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security pact.
Robber apologizes during Vt. general store holdupA thief who robbed a general store apologized to the owner and left the singles behind so workers on the next shift would have something in the till.
For toilet-less Vermont library, a new chapterWhen you gotta go, you gotta go. But for decades, when you had to go in the Roxbury Free Library, you really had to go—somewhere else, that is.
Cell phone in man's chest pocket stops bulletA man says his cell phone saved his life. A stray .45-caliber bullet hit R.J. Richard's chest while he was mowing the lawn—hitting so hard he thought it was a stone kicked out by his tractor.
