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A helicopter plucked two frostbitten Dutch climbers from the world's second-highest mountain Monday after an avalanche left at least 11 people missing and believed dead.

While the sky in Beijing was blue several days last week, it was smoggy and humid on Monday, and some athletes have already felt the effects of the pollution.

Two men rammed a truck into a group of jogging policemen and tossed explosives, killing 16 officers Monday in an attack in a restive province of western China just days before the Beijing Olympics, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.

At least eleven climbers were reported dead Sunday on K2, the world's second-highest mountain, after an avalanche struck them on a steep gully at a height of about 27,000 feet, just below the summit, mountaineering officials said.

This murder is horrific enough, but a tape of police radio calls, leaked to the Internet, indicate that not only did Vince Weiguang Li, 40, murder and decapitate 22-year-old Tim McLean - for no apparent reason - after reboarding a Greyhound bus on Friday, he ate some of McLean's flesh.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Soviet dissident writer and Nobel literature prize winner, has died aged 89, the Interfax news agency reported on Sunday.

Aug. 03 - A car bomb kills 12 people and wounds 22 others in a Sunni area of Iraq's capital.

At least 68 people, including 30 children were killed Sunday when pilgrims stampeded at a mountaintop Hindu temple in northern India, police said.

The devotees were attending a nine-day religious festival at the Naina Devi Temple in the Bilaspur district of the Himachal Pradesh state, said Bilaspur deputy police chief C.P. Verma.

'As per our information, 30 children and 38 women have been killed,' he said, adding that more than 40 others were wounded.

Verma said the stampede was caused by too many pilgrims trying to squeeze into a small area.

August 03, 2008 - 1:32 a.m. Iraqi police say a vehicle bomb has killed eight people and wounded 14 in northern Baghdad.

North Korea says it will eject South Koreans from a mountain resort in the communist country, a further sign of fraying ties between the divided countries.

TEHRAN - Iran said on Saturday it would not back down "one iota" in its nuclear row with major powers, voicing defiance on the day of an informal deadline set by the West over ...

Pakistan's prime minister on Saturday promised to investigate accusations that his country's intelligence agency was involved in the deadly July 7 bombing of the Indian embassy in Kabul, a top Indian diplomat said.

Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani also told his Indian counterpart, Manmohan Singh, that he would discuss the matter with Afghanistan's president, India's Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon told reporters.

The prime ministers of India and Pakistan met in the Sri Lankan capital on Saturday on the sidelines of the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation summit.

The U.S. military said Saturday it has released more than 10,000 detainees in Iraq so far this year _ more than in all of 2007 _ as it continues to try phase out its running of Iraqi prisons.

A man carries a bag filled with old Zimbabwean coins to a bank in downtown Harare Friday August 1, 2008.

Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's new cabinet took office Saturday following a shakeup aimed at turning the tide of his unpopularity and regaining the support of voters worried about rising prices and fed up with ...

Filthy drinking water in parts of Baghdad raises fears about cholera; sewage comes out of taps BAGHDAD - Just months after Americans repaired a sewage treatment plant in southern Baghdad, insurgents attacked ...

American intelligence agencies have concluded that members of Pakistan’s powerful spy service helped plan the deadly July 7 bombing of India’s embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, according to United States government officials.

Police on Thursday accused a Brazilian man of killing and dismembering his 17-year-old British girlfriend, taking pictures of her body parts with his cell phone and stuffing her torso in a suitcase.

A man aboard a Greyhound bus repeatedly stabbed and then decapitated a fellow passenger, witnesses said Thursday.

Caton said he saw the suspect had the victim on the floor of the bus and "was cutting his head off and pretty much gutting him."

President Bush hailed a new "degree of durability" in security gains in Iraq Thursday, saying it should permit him to announce further U.S. troop reductions later this year.