A Libyan rebel has the rebel flag painted on his fingers as he flashes the vicory sign on the front line outside of Bin Jawaad, 150 km east of Sirte, central Libya on Monday, March 28. (AP Photo) BIN JAWAD

FUKUSHIMA CITY, March 28 (Reuters): With all the stoicism of a character out of Hemingway -- one of his favorite writers -- Mitsuharu Watanobe sits on a gymnasium floor in the city of Fukushima, and waits.The r

BERLIN, March 28 (Reuters): German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party said on Monday it stood united behind its leader after some members blamed her for a humiliating loss in a state vote in Baden-Wu

In this Thursday, March 24 photo provided by the French Army, a French Navy Rafale jet fighter takes off from deck of Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean sea as part of the Operation Odyssey

SENDAI, March 25 (AFP): The death toll from Japan's worst post-war disaster topped 10,000 Friday as the operator of a radiation-belching nuclear plant warned that work to stabilise it may take another month.Two

Chiang Rai, March 25 (Agencies): At least 75 people were killed in the strong earthquake that struck Myanmar, officials said, while another quake hit northern Thailand on Friday, inflicting limited damage. Thur

A Libyan rebel prays on a checkpoint on the frontline near Zwitina, the outskirts of the city of Ajdabiya, south of Benghazi, eastern Libya on Thursday, March 24. (AP Photo) TRIPOLI, March 24 (Reuters): We

CHICAGO, March 24 (Reuters): People who smoke menthol cigarettes are no more likely to develop lung cancer than those who smoke non-menthol varieties, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday in a surprise finding th

OTSUCHI, Japan, March 24 (Reuters): Shingo Suzuki cannot prove he is Shingo Suzuki and that does not bother him, at least not now. Suzuki, living in an evacuee center, is one of thousands of people who escaped

Members of the pro-Kremlin movement United Russia Young Guards lay flowers near a wreath outside the Libyan Embassy in Moscow, Russia on Wednesday, March 23. Written on the wreath: Condolences for Deceased. (AP

JERUSALEM, March 23 (AP): Gaza militants barraged southern Israel with rockets and mortars Wednesday, drawing retaliatory Israeli airstrikes in an escalation of the gravest hostilities in the area since Israel

SAN SALVADOR, March 23 (Reuters): President Barack Obama pledged $200 million on Tuesday to Central America's anti-drug fight on the final leg of a regional tour to bolster U.S. ties with southern neighbors who

TOKYO, March 23 (Reuters): The Japanese government on Wednesday estimated the direct damage from a deadly earthquake and tsunami that struck the country's northeast this month at as much as $310 billion, making

Former Israeli President Moshe Katsav, arrives for the reading of the sentence in his rape trial at a court in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, March 22. (AP Photo) TEL AVIV, Israel, March 22 (AP):  An Israeli co

Libyan rebels try to take cover as mortars from Moammar Gadhafi’s forces are fired on them on the frontline of the outskirts of the city of Ajdabiya, south of Benghazi, eastern Libya on Tuesday, March 22.

Air crew work on a Royal Air Force Tornado, one of the typres of aircraft to be used in the operation of a no-fly zone over Libya, at the Lossiemouth air base at Moray, Scotland on Friday, March 18. BritainR

MIR ALI, March 17 (AP): U.S. unmanned aircraft fired four missiles into a building where dozens of suspected militants were meeting Thursday, killing more than 30 of them in an usually deadly strike close to th

Men from Ghana, who used to work in Libya and fled the unrest in the country, line up as they wait to be repatriated in a refugee camp at the Tunisia-Libyan border in Ras Ajdir, Tunisia on Thursday, March 17. M

WASHINGTON, March 17 (Reuters): Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday she has no desire to continue in the job if President Barack Obama wins a second term in 2012. And she said she doesn't want

TOKYO, March 17 (Reuters):  Japanese military helicopters dumped water on an overheating nuclear plant on Thursday while the United States expressed growing alarm about leaking radiation and said it was se