International News

Greek public transport was halted, flights grounded and state hospitals left with emergency staff only on Thursday as workers walked off the job to protest painful spending cuts the government is making to deal with the country's debt crisis.

Mozambican authorities say about 800 people are trapped by rising floodwaters and in need of rescue.

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says Iranian support for the Taliban in Afghanistan isn't much of a problem for the United States, yet.

The NATO force in Afghanistan says a homemade bomb has killed four children and a civilian adult in a northeastern province.

A decision by Myanmar's military junta to bar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from upcoming elections drew sharp criticism from around the world, with one of the country's Southeast Asian allies Thursday calling it "a complete farce."

Zoo officials say an elephant calf that was believed to have died during a nine-day labor is feeding itself and has earned the nickname "Mr. Shuffles" since learning to stand.

An open diplomatic row has shined a spotlight on the U.S. failure to rein in Israeli settlement ambitions and deepened Palestinian suspicions that the United States is too weak to broker a deal.

Two Australian teenagers have been charged in a brutal attack in a Sydney train station on a Canadian tourist in a wheelchair.

The son of an immigrant shopkeeper has become the first person from a developing nation, and the first from Latin America, to be named the world's richest person.

Silvio Berlusconi's allies pushed a controversial measure through parliament on Wednesday that shields the Italian premier from prosecution in two ongoing trials.