A suspected suicide bomber killed seven people, including a police official, in a restive southern region of Russia on Wednesday. Read more…

Iraqi forces searched on Wednesday for a kidnapped United Arab Emirates diplomat, and a top official in the Persian Gulf country said the attack raised concerns about Iraqр# widespread insecurity. Read more…

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday rejected a possible European offer for incentives, including a light-water nuclear reactor, in return for quitting uranium enrichment. Read more…

Mount Merapi shot a large cloud of searing hot ash and gas into the sky Wednesday, ending two days of relative calm and underscoring the dangers still facing thousands of people living on the volcanoр# slopes. Read more…

China evacuated as many as 320,000 people as the strongest typhoon on record to enter the South China Sea in May bore down on the south coast on Wednesday, causing flight and shipping delays around the region. Read more…

The Hamas-led Palestinian government said Wednesday it is activating a new security unit made up of militants, despite a veto by moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Read more…

Israel will reopen the countryр# main cargo border crossing with the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, military officials said. Read more…

Defense lawyers put a series of witnesses on the stand in Saddam Husseinр# trial Wednesday, and the ex-Iraqi leader attended the session after being kept out of the courtroom a day earlier. Read more…

A gunman stormed into a meeting at Turkeyр# top administrative court on Wednesday and opened fire, wounding five judges, the Ankara governorр# office said. Read more…

The Carter Center's success in pushing the Guinea worm parasite to the brink of extinction is one of several achievements that ... Read more…

The maker of a synthetic drug similar to the active ingredient in marijuana said Tuesday that it had received Food and Drug Administration ... Read more…

Nearly nine months after Hurricane Katrina, many New Orleans cancer patients still struggle to get care. Cancer centers were ... Read more…

Republican lawmakers who previously opposed extending the May 15 deadline to sign up for Medicare prescription drug plans before ... Read more…

Popular drugs hailed for revolutionizing treatment of rheumatoid arthritis may increase the risk of cancer and serious infections, ... Read more…

Reports of the death of recess may be greatly exaggerated, a U.S. Education Department study suggests. Data released Tuesday ... Read more…

Japan wants to see the results of a survey of U.S. meatpacking plants before starting talks on reopening its market to American ... Read more…

Teen smoking and drinking continued to drop, but teenage abuse of prescription drugs has become "an entrenched behavior" that ... Read more…

Medicare pays tens of thousands of dollars more in some states, regions or hospitals to provide care to chronically ill patients, ... Read more…

Mounting evidence that scores of heart patients can avoid second heart attacks or strokes with intensive treatment to reduce ... Read more…

Sex researcher/cultural historian Shere Hite is not the household name she was 30 years ago when The Hite Report: A Nationwide ... Read more…

For years, doctors have believed that patients with metastatic breast cancer are incurable. But two studies suggest that some ... Read more…

My column on bottled water prompted readers to ask whether "spring waters" or "artesian well waters" were better than other bottled ... Read more…

The sign-up period for a massive federal program to help older and disabled Americans pay for prescription drugs ends Monday, ... Read more…

The bird flu that spread across Europe and into Africa this year seems to be slowing as warmer weather approaches, but flu experts ... Read more…

The year's most anticipated movie, "The Da Vinci Code," is stirring up passions. While readers devoured Dan Brown's novel, reaction from Cannes critics ranged from mild endorsement of its suspense to groans of ridicule over its heavy melodrama. Read more…