A group of the so-called Red Shirts broke into Chulalongkorn Hospital late Thursday despite pleas from its director, then withdrew after not finding soldiers or police within the sprawling compound. Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, whom the protesters seek to overthrow,…
“I don’t think it was a break,” she says politely but firmly. “I worked for five years.” Indeed, Dion’s “A New Day” concert extravaganza on the Las Vegas strip may have been more demanding than a pop star’s life. The…
BEIJING A landslide toppled an elementary school building in a mountainous area of southwestern China on Thursday, killing at least 16 students and leaving three other people missing, a state news agency said. Eighteen students were buried at the Tiantou…
HAVANA – Two of Washington’s top irritants, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Fidel Castro, discussed world events for two hours, and the Iranian leader on Thursday described the retired Cuban revolutionary as healthy and engaged, and declared their two countries to be…
Clinton said that the Obama administration’s special Mideast envoy George Mitchell, who will mediate the talks, will travel to the region next week. His visit will follow a weekend meeting of Arab League diplomats. Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat hinted that…
They will co-host a three-day meeting in Bonn starting Sunday of representatives from a selected 45 countries with hopes of building trust and clearing some of the rubble left from Copenhagen, German Environment Minister Norbert Roettgen said this week. “The…
(CBS) This is America. The only Italians we know are the Corleones and the Sopranos. We certainly aren’t going to shower votes on an Italian model who talks English like a Russian and allegedly used to date George Clooney. We’re…
Updated at 10:24 a.m. ET ISLAMABAD Pakistan airlifted a 14-year-old activist who was shot and seriously wounded by the Taliban to the United Kingdom for treatment Monday, a move that will give her access to the specialized medical care she…