UNITED NATIONS - UN chief Ban Ki-moon paid tribute to fellow South Korean and former president Kim Dae-jung, who died Tuesday at the age of 85. "The Secretary General pays tribute to Kim...

PHNOM PENH - A French woman wept Monday as she told a UN-backed war crimes court how her Cambodian husband was tricked into returning from overseas to die in the Khmer Rouge regime's main prison....

WASHINGTON, Shaun Tandon - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Monday put the onus on Israel to break a deadlock with Arab nations as he held talks with a US administration under pressure to launch a...

PHOENIX - US President Barack Obama, taking aim at costly military programs of debatable value, said Monday he really did not need a new presidential helicopter with an Armageddon-proof kitchen....

WASHINGTON - The White House on Monday welcomed the release of an American detained in Myanmar, but called on the country to release all its political prisoners, including democracy icon Aung San Suu...

MOSUL, Mujahid Mohammed - Arab and Kurdish politicians in northern Iraq traded accusations of responsibility on Sunday over a series of bloody bombings that have rocked the region in recent days....

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK - US president and city slicker Barack Obama plunged into the American wilderness Sunday, gazing out with his two young daughters at the awesome void of the Grand Canyon....

PARIS - Iranian authorities released a young French academic who was accused of spying on bail on Sunday, the French presidency announced, after she spent six weeks in Tehran's notorious Evin jail....

CARACAS - President Hugo Chavez Sunday bridled at US plans to use military bases in Colombia, asserting that Venezuela was the top US target in the region and that Venezuelans should prepare for...