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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - One of the pilots of a Brazilian aircraft screamed in horror as his Airbus A320 jetliner overshot the wet runway at Sao Paulo’s Congonhas airport on July 17 and slammed into a cargo terminal, killing all 187 people on board and 12 more on the ground. It [...]

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - One of the pilots of a Brazilian aircraft screamed in horror as his Airbus A320 jetliner overshot the wet runway at Sao Paulo’s Congonhas airport on July 17 and slammed into a cargo terminal, killing all 187 people on board and 12 more on the ground. It [...]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq’s largest Sunni political faction resigned from Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s Cabinet on Wednesday, severely weakening the government’s credentials as a national unity coalition and setting back hopes of reconciliation.

The move was accompanied by a wave of bombings in Baghdad that killed at least [...]

JERUSALEM - Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister said Wednesday that his country would consider attending President Bush’s planned Israeli-Palestinian peace conference in the fall, which would put Saudi officials publicly at the same table as their Israeli counterparts for the first time since 1991.

But Saudi officials said a precondition of its attendance [...]

RECALLED TOYS

Model names and product numbers for the nearly 1 million recalled Fisher-Price toys, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission:

33662 Elmo Light Up Musical Pal

33663 Ernie Light Up Musical Pal

33664 Big Bird Light Up Musical Pal

34658 Elmo Stacking Rings

39038 Elmo Tub [...]

LOS ANGELES - In a sweeping deal to end years of controversy, the J. Paul Getty Museum agreed Wednesday to return to Italy 40 antiquities from its collection, including several masterpieces and its prized fifth-century B.C. statue of the goddess Aphrodite.

The draft agreement, reached over an exchange of faxes Tuesday, includes [...]

BAGHDAD - U.S. military deaths for July rose to 73 on Tuesday with the report of a Marine killed in combat, but the toll still was the lowest in eight months.

By contrast, July was the second-deadliest month for Iraqis so far this year, according to an Associated [...]

SEOUL, South Korea - Shocked by the killing of a second South Korean hostage in Afghanistan and weary from the 13-day-old crisis, South Korea on Tuesday urged the United States and Afghan governments to show “flexibility” over Taliban demands for the release of imprisoned militants.

The government appeal - coupled with a [...]

BANGKOK, Thailand - A tribunal in Cambodia charged the commandant of the main Khmer Rouge torture house with crimes against humanity Tuesday, bringing the first such charges in a long-delayed trial in the deaths of 1.7 million people in the late 1970s.

The commandant, Kaing Guek Eav, 64, known as [...]

The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Tuesday to authorize the deployment of up to 26,000 peacekeepers to try to stop the violence in Darfur, in western Sudan, where nearly 200,000 people have been killed in four years of conflict.

The resolution will create a combined peacekeeping operation of [...]