BOSTON, Marcia Scott Harrison - Crowds flocked Thursday to pay tearful last respects to late Democratic lion Edward Kennedy as his body lay in the oceanside library he built to honor his slain...

WASHINGTON - Afghan President Hamid Karzai had a testy exchange with the US envoy to the region, Richard Holbrooke, who pressed him after widespread allegations of vote-rigging, an official said...

HAVANA - Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro accused the United States Thursday of seeking to "eliminate" Venezuela's leftist government and amass power in South America through its military deals with...

UNITED NATIONS- Ban Ki-moon, the secretary general of the United Nations, condemned "in the strongest possible terms" on Wednesday a bomb attack in Kandahar, Afghanistan that killed at least 43...

LODZ, Mary Sibierski - Holocaust survivors gathered in Lodz Wednesday to pay homage to 220,000 Jews who perished in the Polish city's ghetto during World War II, 65 years after its liquidation by...

HYANNIS PORT, Sebastian Smith - Edward Kennedy, the last of the storied band of brothers whose triumphs and tragedies dominated a generation of US politics, has died after losing his battle with...

KABUL, Sardar Ahmad - Incumbent Hamid Karzai is running neck and neck with his main rival in the fraud-tainted race for the Afghan presidency, according to the first partial results unveiled...

LONDON - The Sri Lankan High Commission denied its army was involved in atrocities against the ethnic Tamil minority after British television aired video Tuesday allegedly showing a soldier executing...

WASHINGTON - Former US vice president Dick Cheney has questioned President Barack Obama's trustworthiness on national security after the US Justice Department announce a probe into alleged CIA...