At least 50 wounded when two car bombs exploded in quick succession Sunday in a mostly Shi'ite neighborhood in southwestern Baghdad

UN refugee agency says four million people are uprooted, 40,000 to 50,000 per month fleeing their homes inside Iraq

Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met Sunday but made no major breakthroughs

Christopher Hill says the US has told North Korea it is time for it to take the next step and and allow United Nations nuclear inspectors back into the country

Saturday's polls were seen as a test for presidential elections next week to replace President Olusegun Obasanjo

Tourists flock back to Nepal since decade-long insurgency is over, but tourist arrivals decline in Sri Lanka as civil war continues

British finance minister Gordon Brown stresses urgent need to complete long-stalled Doha talks

Region's economies have registered over four percent annual growth for four consecutive years

Thousands of followers, some fellow countrymen and women in traditional Bavarian dress, join pope in prayers of thanks to God for his long life

'We will have fair and just, open and transparent ticket sales,' says Wang Wei, executive vice president of Beijing Olympic Committee