A Spanish emergency rescue official says there are only 26 survivors after an airliner crashed during takeoff.

An Iraqi official says U.S. and Iraqi negotiators have finished a draft agreement that would see all American troops removed from Iraqi cities by June 30th.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is also dismissing comments from Russian officials about the deal.

The French president is in Afghanistan, mourning the loss of 10 soldiers killed in a battle with Taliban militants.

A day after resigning, the former Pakistani president seems to be enjoying himself.

Algerian state radio says the bombings at a hotel and military headquarters southeast of Algiers have also wounded 31 others.

It's not looking good for a hungry and abandoned humpback whale calf in the waters off Australia.

The former 1970s glam rocker had flown from Vietnam to Thailand after serving nearly three years for molesting children.

The cost of the Olympic opening ceremony in blood and sweat is starting to emerge.

Fernando Lugo is replacing the nation's police commander four days into the new administration.

China's state-run media reports that Hua Guofeng, who briefly ruled China as communist founder Mao Zedong's successor, has died at the age of 87.

The U.N. Security Council is holding emergency consultations on the conflict between the two countries.

One of the biggest challenges facing Pakistani leaders is how to deal with an al-Qaida and Taliban-backed insurgency in Pakistan's volatile northwest as well as in neighboring Afghanistan.

A state police spokesman says the army raided a house in the town of Tierra Blanca and arrested one man Monday

NATO is calling on Russia to pull its troops from Georgia but it is pulling its punches when it comes to backing up its demands.