No date was given for the release of Pablo Emilio Moncayo, an army corporal taken hostage in December 1997. Recent previous releases occurred more than two months after the announ ...

Iraq announced Monday it will let doctors carry firearms, one of several measures aimed at trying to keep medical workers from leaving the war-torn country. More than 2,200 doctors and nurses have ...

Giuliani, Clinton, Lazio camps discuss soft money ban. NEW YORK (CNN) -- Campaign aides to Senate candidates Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rep. Rick Lazio were meeting at a Manhattan ...

As he arrives in Israel, the focus for Pope Benedict XVI shifts from Catholic/Muslim ties, which were at the heart of his three-day visit to Jordan, to relations with Judaism. The pope comes to the ...

Sources close to the talks between Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and U.S. President Bill Clinton said the following Palestinian concerns were discussed by the two leaders: 1) Maps: The Palestinians ...

A man charged in the beheading death of his seatmate on a Greyhound Canada bus last summer is not criminally responsible because he is mentally ill, a judge ruled Thursday, said CNN affiliate CBC News ...

Sebastian Coe is one of the greatest middle-distance runners ever to step foot on to an athletics track. There are few people better qualified to comment on the talent and effort it takes to become a ...

Talk about a dolphin in rural Japan and some people think of dinner. Fishermen hunt dolphins about every day in Taiji, a town of about 3,000 in southwestern Japan that juts into t ...

The photograph became an icon of the Great Depression: a migrant mother with her children burying their faces in her shoulder. Katherine McIntosh was 4 years old when the photo was snapped. She said ...

And let's not forget America was attacked on September 11, 2001, and thousands of American lives were lost. President Bush and his team got us through all that and kept us safe for the rest of his ...

Republican presidential candidates intensified their fight over which one has the true conservative credentials in a sometimes contentious debate Sunday night. The candidates also didn't miss the ...

On Monday, U.N. called "on the government of Israel to halt settlement expansion" President Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice noncommittal on plan State Department spokesman: Israel's action ...