Health Jan 04 Turkey Confirms First Human Cases of Bird Flu Turkey announced Wednesday its first two human cases, one of them fatal, of the deadly H5N1 strain of the bird flu, marking the virus' first occurrence in people outside Southeast Asia and China.
Health Jan 04 Israeli Leader Sharon Suffers Massive Stroke Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffered a cerebral hemorrhage Wednesday and was on breathing assistance, his doctor told the Associated Press.
Nation Jan 04 Attacks Across Iraq Kill At Least 53, Damage Oil Convoy A wave of attacks across Iraq Wednesday killed at least 53 people and wounded more than 40 others in the country's deadliest day of violence since elections on Dec. 15.
Nation Jan 04 12 Miners Found Dead After Frantic Rescue Effort Following a tumultuous night of conflicting reports on the fate of miners trapped by a devastating explosion, officials in West Virginia announced that 12 of the 13 workers located late Tuesday were dead.
Economy Jan 03 Rescue Teams Struggle to Reach Trapped Miners in West Virginia Rescue workers continued Tuesday evening to dig into the mine shaft in Tallmansville, W.Va., where 13 coal miners have been trapped since Monday morning when an explosion blocked their path.
Health Jan 03 China Criticized for Not Sharing Bird Flu Information Despite requests from the World Health Organization and other international health bodies, China is still not sharing virus samples from animals infected with the H5N1 strain of the bird flu.
Politics Jan 02 Former Syrian Vice President Faces Treason Charges after TV Interview Officials in Damascus and the U.N. continued to react to the explosive allegations made by the former Syrian vice president in which he said Syrian President Bashar Assad threatened Rafik Hariri several months before Hariri was assassinated.
World Dec 28 Reform Effort Pushed as Part of U.N. Budget Deal Ending weeks of turmoil, the U.N. General Assembly late last week adopted its 2006-7 budget but with a spending cap aimed at pressuring countries into agreeing to key reforms within six months.
Politics Dec 28 Former Enron Executive Pleads Guilty, to Cooperate with Prosecutors Richard Causey, Enron Corp.'s former executive vice president and chief accounting officer, pleaded guilty Wednesday to securities fraud in connection to the filing of the company's 2001 quarterly report.
Politics Dec 27 10,000 Protest in Baghdad as Leaders Negotiate a Coalition More than 10,000 Sunni Arabs and secular Shiites marched in Baghdad Tuesday to protest the Dec. 15 parliamentary elections.