Aug 26, 2010 — MOSCOW - For years, environmentalists have risked arrests and sometimes beatings by the police and masked plainclothes thugs in their efforts to halt the construction of a highway linking Moscow to St. Petersburg that they say would ...

Aug 25, 2010 — YICHUN, China - A nighttime flight into a remote Chinese city ended with a violent, shaking descent and then a crash near an airport that one major Chinese airline had previously judged unsafe for night landings.

Aug 24, 2010 — More than 40 people were feared dead after a Chinese passenger jet overshot a runway in the country's northeast and burst into flames.

Aug 24, 2010 — Survivors from a plane crash in northeastern China that killed 42 passengers on Tuesday night have described the terrifying final moments of their flight as it crashed to earth and burst into flames.

Aug 24, 2010 — An electoral official counts ballot papers at an Australian Electoral Commission office in Melbourne August 24, 2010. By Rob Taylor CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's next minority government will be under pressure to retain a proposed mining tax, ...

Aug 22, 2010 — CAIRO - None of the alarms and only seven out of 43 surveillance cameras were working at a Cairo museum where a Vincent van Gogh painting was stolen, Egypt's top prosecutor said Sunday.

Aug 22, 2010 — Photo: AP Hostage negotiators, left and right, talk to foreign tourists taken hostage by Police Senior Inspector Rolando Mendoza after securing their release at Manila's Rizal Park Monday Aug. 23, 2010.

Aug 21, 2010 — LONDON - Julian Assange, founder of the whistle-blower Web site WikiLeaks who has been embroiled in a fight with the Pentagon over the recent release of classified documents, briefly became the focus of new attention ...

Aug 19, 2010 — Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard will face her biggest election fight in mining states to win Saturday's too-close-to-call ballot.

Aug 19, 2010 — Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard greets supporters at the opening of a new shopping mall as part of her election campaign in Sydney August 20, 2010.