Serbia is haunted anew by the ghost of Slobodan Milosevic. Eight years after the late Serbian strongman was toppled in a popular revolt, and a little more than two years after his death while on U.N. trial for genocide and crimes against humanity, his former loyalists have never been closer to regai...

A gloomy Vladimir Putin wears a Czarist crown, clutching a bag full of dollars and a miniature television tower. Filipp Pishchik says this and similar cartoons, depicting the former president as a corrupt leader who stifles free speech, got him in trouble with authorities and forced him to leave Mos...

Tony Blair considered not running for a third term as British prime minister but his wife and others persuaded him it would be seen as an admission that he had been wrong about the Iraq war, she says in her newly published autobiography.

Air strikes in the southeast left 19 Kurdish rebels dead in an attack the Turkish military said was retaliation for a rebel raid on a military outpost a day earlier.

The Dalai Lama said Chinese officials were "respectful" in meetings last week, but large differences remained over the causes of the recent unrest in Tibet.

Call it the Billionaire meets Boris _ a lesson on how to run a world class city. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who made a fortune as a private businessman, visited London's City Hall Friday to offer some pointers to Boris Johnson, who has been mayor of London for less than a week.

Auto parts maker Delphi Corp. reported on Friday that it lost more money in the first quarter than it did a year ago, but that an increased credit line will still allow it to emerge from bankruptcy protection intact.

A Rock Island man whose car was hit as he tried to make a left turn into his driveway saw his home going up in flames as he was airlifted to the hospital. Tennessee Highway Patrol officer Monte Terry said Justin Hill, 42, was hit by an oncoming car when he pulled into its path on Tuesday evening.

A study conducted by good-government groups says dozens of corporations with business before the Legislature may have exceeded the legal limit in 2007 on how much they can legally contribute to candidates.

France is creating a plan to evacuate its citizens from Lebanon in case the country's sectarian violence spreads, Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Friday.

Wheat futures fell sharply Friday after the government forecast increased U.S production and a record global crop, while corn futures surged to a new high on continuing concerns about the weather.

Russia showcased its military might and youthful new president to the world Friday, as heavy tanks and missile launchers rumbled across Red Square in a Victory Day parade for the first time since the Soviet era.

For 13 years, he has eluded capture for atrocities a U.N. judge described as "scenes from hell ... written on the darkest pages of human history." Gen. Ratko Mladic _ indicted for genocide in the 1995 slaughter of up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Bosnia _ remains one of the world's most-wanted fug...

Passengers riding the subway and major bus routes in Beijing will undergo strict security checks starting at the end of June ahead of the Olympics, police said Friday.

The family of a man who plunged more than 500 feet in a coal mine's air shaft filed a wrongful-death lawsuit Thursday against a company he helped found that was building the shaft.

The federal government is holding the line on its prediction for a bigger Florida orange crop this season. The U.S. Department of Agriculture released its updated forecast Friday for the 2007-08 season.

Likening them to a "plague of locusts," a judge has banned four women from Pennsylvania malls after they pleaded guilty to stealing. Common Pleas Judge Steven O'Neill sentenced the four Thursday to time served and placed them on probation in addition to the mall restriction.

Linde AG said Friday that first-quarter profits fell 64 percent compared with last year, when the industrial gasses and engineering company recorded the sale of some businesses.

Southern Union Co.'s first-quarter net income rose 5.6 percent on higher revenue from the interstate natural gas pipeline company's gathering and processing segment.