At least two people drowned and more than 800 terrified passengers were rescued early Sunday from a ferry that listed dangerously in the southern Philippines, officials said.

Chinese leaders bowed to public demands and sacked the head of a western city wracked by communal violence and a bizarre string of needle attacks, hoping to calm uneasy mobs…

The western flank of the deadly wildfire north of Los Angeles was under control Saturday, sparing foothill communities further threat as it burned east into a large wilderness area.

Pakistani troops killed 43 alleged militants in an operation in the Khyber tribal region while airstrikes left several more dead Saturday in the stronghold of the new Taliban chief elsewhere…

Top nuclear envoys from South Korea and the United States held talks Saturday on a strategy to bring North Korea back to disarmament negotiations, a day after the North claimed…

Three days after a powerful earthquake jolted West Java, residents in a quake-affected district of Sindangbarang have seen no significant support of logistic coming.

An army sergeant killed two fellow soldiers and wounded five others, including his commander, in a shooting spree in a southern Philippine military camp, a military spokesman said Saturday.

A federal appeals court delivered a stinging rebuke to the Bush administration's detention policies after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, ruling that former Attorney General John Ashcroft can be…

The US Embassy has announced that the United States will provide US$ 100,000 in disaster recovery assistance funds to Indonesia after the Sept. 2 earthquake in Tasikmalaya, West Java.