· China designates first of planned national parks
Snow-frosted trees, subzero temperatures, precious few people and one-story wooden houses. It sure looks like Siberia and it ...

· Kenya: Somali pirates make $150M in a year
Somali pirates have collected more than $150 million in ransoms over the past year, Kenya's foreign affairs minister said Friday, ...

· Bush to promote action plan on global financial crisis
President George W. Bush hopes to win more converts at a summit here for an action plan aimed at showing governments have the ...

· Iraqi troops donate money to U.S. wildfire victims
The U.S. military says a group of Iraqi soldiers has donated $500 to help California wildfire victims.

· Bush effigy burned in anti-U.S. protest in Baghdad
Followers of a Shiite cleric on Friday stomped on and burned an effigy of President George W. Bush in the same central Baghdad ...

· China: May earthquake killed 19,000 kids
More than 19,000 schoolchildren died in a massive earthquake that struck Sichuan province in May, China acknowledged Friday for ...

· U.N. Security Council approves sanctions on Somali pirates
The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Thursday to impose sanctions on pirates, arms smugglers, and perpetrators of instability ...

· Survey: Mexican emigration drops 42% over last two years
Mexican emigration has dropped 42% over the last two years, a government study released Thursday showed, confirming that America ...

· Laura Bush promotes breast cancer research in Panama
Laura Bush is in Panama to promote breast cancer research.

· Israeli president gets honorary knighthood from British queen
Buckingham Palace says Queen Elizabeth II has given Israeli President Shimon Peres an honorary knighthood.

· US military: Marine dies in Iraq
The U.S. military in Iraq says an American Marine has died as the result of a non-combat-related incident west of Baghdad.

· Baghdad plans to kill stray dogs
Baghdad authorities announced a citywide campaign on Thursday to kill stray dogs in the Iraqi capital after a spate of dog attacks ...

· China says it will clean up its dairy industry
China announced a complete overhaul of its dairy industry Thursday to improve safety at every step from cow breeding to milk ...

· Off Africa's coast, pirates 'out of control'
They come out of the darkness in the waters off the coast of East Africa, zooming up in speedboats to the sides of massive cargo ...

· Malnutrition blamed in deaths of 26 Haitian youths
Aid workers say Haiti's food crisis is getting worse.