When Condoleezza Rice spends a few hours in Libya and shakes hands with Moammar Gadhafi, she will close a nearly three-decade era of bitter animosity between the united states and the North african nation that has sometimes gotten personal.

Tropical Storm Hanna killed 137 and drowned Gonaives in muddy water.

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's chief nuclear envoy on Friday pressed North Korea to halt plans to rebuild a mothballed nuclear plant that makes arms-grade plutonium and instead return to the bargaining table.

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's pro-democracy camp faces a stern test in city-wide legislative elections on Sunday, with rival pro-Beijing candidates poised to further erode the camp's waning influence over the city's political future.

With 23-per-cent economic growth, the oil-rich nation's people will vote today for the first time in 16 years

Items turned in include 11-kilogram machine guns, mortar shells, hand grenades, even Apache helicopter bullets

More than eight million people - nearly half of the population - have registered to vote in war-ravaged Angola, and the vote is expected to go fairly smoothly.

Father of dead man says he will help spare brothers the death penalty if Canada stops intervening

THE Republican party convention ends with a rousing call for Americans to "stand up and fight".

The EPA lowered the amount of pollution that new gas-powered mowers and boat engines can emit.