The son of American evangelist Billy Graham said Friday he is opposed to missionary work at this summer's Beijing Olympic Games. Franklin Graham, also an evangelist, was speaking to reporters Friday during a visit to Beijing for meetings with the Communist Party-controlled Protestant church movement...

A U.N. official says the World Food Program is suspending cyclone aid to Myanmar because its government seized supplies flown into the country. He says the WFP has no choice but to suspend the shipments until the matter is resolved.

Nepal allowed the climbing season on Mount Everest to resume Friday after blocking access to hundreds of climbers so a Chinese team carrying the Olympic flame could ascend without the threat of protests.

The dollar fell against the euro Friday after the European Central Bank signaled that it was unlikely it would consider any interest rate cuts in the coming months.

The United States is offering to help China in its fight against a viral infection that has killed 34 children, including two reported Friday, and sickened thousands of others.

Bangladesh's military-backed government should lift emergency rule to facilitate open elections that it has promised to hold by the end of the year, a State Department official said Friday.

Sri Lanka's military announced the capture of a small town in the north after fighting Friday, calling it an important step in dismantling guerrilla strongholds in the area.

In the eyes of Myanmar's military rulers, everyone is a potential enemy. Even foreign aid workers. As the international community waits to deliver desperately needed aid to Myanmar's cyclone survivors, it is getting a lesson in the mind-set of the country's military rulers: reclusive, xenophobic gen...

Twenty-two years after graduating from high school, Angie Collins is now her former English teacher's favorite student. Collins, 40, donated her kidney this week to Darren Paquin, who teaches English at Elwood Community High School, where she graduated back in 1986.

The United Nations blasted Myanmar's military junta on Friday, calling its refusal to let in foreign aid workers "unprecedented" as survivors of a devastating cyclone waited for food, shelter and medicine.

Australia is investigating allegations that its soldiers mistreated suspected insurgents in prison in Afghanistan, the military said Friday. A senior Afghan National Army commander made the allegations during a weekend meeting with NATO-led International Security Assistance Force officers, the Austr...

Depression, teens and marijuana are a dangerous mix that can lead to dependency, mental illness or suicidal thoughts, according to a White House report being released Friday.

Today is Friday, May 9, the 130th day of 2008. There are 236 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History:

Top U.N. officials criticized Myanmar's response to a devastating cyclone, calling on its ruling junta Thursday to postpone a constitutional referendum and to ease restrictions slowing the delivery of international aid.

The leader of Canada's oil-rich province of Alberta says if the U.S. follows through with import restrictions on "dirty" crude from Canada's oilsands, the province will simply sell its massive reserves to other countries.

A $1 billion deal to build skyscrapers, apartments and parks over rail yards on Manhattan's far West Side appears to have collapsed. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority says negotiations to finalize the deal reached six weeks ago with Tishman Speyer Properties "reached an impasse" late Thursda...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says pressure from the auto industry will not deter California from attempting to impose strict emission rules for vehicles sold in the state.

With a bill like a duck, a tail like a beaver and snake-like venom hidden in heel spurs, the platypus could be the result of some strange genetic experiment.

Myanmar's military regime allowed in the first major international aid shipment Thursday, but it snubbed a U.S. offer to help cyclone victims struggling to recover from a tragedy of unimaginable scale.