SEOUL, South Korea - The American colonel, troubled by what he was hearing, tried to stall at first. More »
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - - Exhausted firefighters are racing to contain hundreds of wildfires raging across California as forecasters warned on Sunday that a looming heatwave was set to deliver drier, hotter conditions. More »
ROME (AFP) - - Italian judges, fighting back against attacks by conservative Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, are threatening to strike over proposed deep cuts to their budget. More »
JALALABAD, Afghanistan (AFP) - - An Afghan district governor said 22 people, most of them women and children, were killed Sunday when US-led coalition air strikes hit a wedding party in eastern Afghanistan, but the force insisted only militants were killed. More »
TOKYO (AFP) - - US President George W. Bush and French President Nicolas Sarkozy had "fierce" arguments at last year's Group of Eight summit, Japan's then premier Shinzo Abe said Sunday. More »

Most of panda habitat damaged or destroyed in China quake

