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03/19/2010 08:13 PM
Members of Britain's biggest trade union, Unite, walked out at midnight on Friday, just hours after face-to-face talks broke down between union joint leader Tony Woodley and BA chief executive Willie Walsh. 
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03/19/2010 02:14 PM
Yemen's president says all signs indicate the government's war with northern rebels is over following last month's cease-fire with the Shiite militants. 
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03/19/2010 02:06 PM
An overnight downpour has swamped homeless camps in Haiti's capital, sweeping screaming residents into eddies of water, overflowing latrines and panicking thousands. 
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03/19/2010 02:00 PM
A union walkout has forced British Airways to cancel thousands of flights, though the airline still hopes to operate around 65 percent of its international schedule during an expected three-day strike. 
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03/19/2010 01:41 PM
Staff at a British library say they were surprised and puzzled when they received a book that was 45 years overdue through their mailbox. 
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03/19/2010 01:31 PM
Abbas and Ilyas Iqbal, brothers who called themselves "The Blackburn Resistance" and filmed Al Qaeda-style propaganda, were convicted of terrorist offenses in an English court Friday. 
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03/19/2010 12:36 PM
A top official in Sierre Leone's government said he raced to a town in the country Friday after news reports said at least 200 people had been killed in a mining accident there, only to find out it was a hoax. 
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03/19/2010 11:00 AM
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — One of the heaviest rainfalls since Haiti's Jan. 12 earthquake swamped homeless camps Friday, sweeping screaming residents into eddies of water, overflowing latrines... 
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03/19/2010 10:50 AM
BAGHDAD (AP) — Seven years after the first bombs in the war to oust Saddam Hussein, Iraqis went about their business Friday with little observance of the anniversary, looking to the future with ... 
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03/19/2010 10:49 AM
Thousands of Red Shirt anti-government protesters remained camped Friday in the historic heart of Bangkok, preparing for a new shock tactic aimed at forcing new elections. 
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03/19/2010 10:41 AM
A former Spanish police chief convicted of embezzling the equivalent of euro10 million ($14 million) became a free man Friday after serving 15 years in prison, and immediately faced — and dodged... 
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03/19/2010 10:41 AM
A former Spanish police chief convicted of embezzling the equivalent of €10 million ($14 million) became a free man Friday after serving 15 years in prison, and immediately faced — and dodged — ... 
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03/19/2010 10:23 AM
MARJAH, Afghanistan (AP) — The first shots came from the north, sending Marines ducking into the nearest ditch — some filled with putrid water. More shots rang out from the southwest: a possible... 
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03/19/2010 10:11 AM
The North Korean's note, scrawled in pen, was simple: "I want to go to South Korea. Why? To find freedom. Freedom of religion, freedom of life." 
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03/19/2010 10:10 AM
Ancient Greek artworks — pieces of silverware with gold detail dating to the third century B.C. — are going on display in Rome after being returned by the Metropolitan Museum in New York. 
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03/19/2010 10:03 AM
Former Iranian Vice President Hossein Marashi -- a prominent pro-reform activist -- is set to begin a 1-year prison sentence for spreading propaganda against Iran's theocratic regime. 
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03/19/2010 10:02 AM
BEIJING (AP) — Lin Xiuying believes her daughter bled to death after being gang-raped two years ago by a group of thugs that had ties to the police in their southern Chinese town.
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03/19/2010 09:54 AM
MADRID (AP) — The wreckage of Spain's economic growth model stands neatly aligned on the roads leading out of Madrid — row after row of unsold houses, windows dark, for-sale signs out front. ... 
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03/19/2010 09:40 AM
A Nigerian military spokesman says an oil facility in oil-rich southern Nigeria has been damaged by an attack. 
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03/19/2010 09:33 AM
Two Israeli Air Force Gulfstream V-type jets, equipped with sophisticated intelligence gear, flew over Hungary right as a Syrian man was gunned down inside his luxury vehicle in Budapest, according to Hungarian media reports. 
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