Chile's Supreme Court on Thursday lifted the immunity from prosecution of former dictator Augusto Pinochet, who faces criminal charges over the disappearance of political opponents during Operation Condor. Lawyers for the relatives of those who

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A rock measuring less than 10 metres (33 feet) across zipped past the Earth at the closest distance ever detected, but it would not have posed any threat if it had struck our planet, astronomers

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Radical cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, already detained in London on an extradition request from the United States, was arrested Thursday under Britain's main anti-terrorist law, police said. Hamza, 47, was arrested under the Terrorism Act

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Australia plans to create what it believes will be the most lethal force of fighter jets in Southeast Asia by equipping its aircraft with long-range cruise missiles, sparking security concerns in Indonesia. Defence Minister Robert

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The grandson of slain Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi urged Palestinians on Thursday to rise up peacefully to demand an end to Israeli occupation, and said freedom was close. Arun Gandhi, whose grandfather's campaign helped loosen

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Rescue workers pulled 24 survivors from the wreckage of a mountain village in Taiwan on Thursday after a torrent of mud and rock triggered by a typhoon buried the area, leaving 15 people feared dead.

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US President George W. Bush has pulled ahead of Democratic challenger John Kerry for the first time this year in a Los Angeles Times poll, the newspaper reported on Wednesday in its online edition. The

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A Yemeni accused of guarding Osama bin Laden with explosive belts seemed to acknowledge his al Qaeda membership on Thursday before a US military tribunal hearing fraught with translation problems. An Arabic-English translator quoted defendant

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China and India will hold their armies' first joint mountaineering exercise in Tibet this week, state media said Thursday. The training, the first of its kind between the two armies, will be conducted Saturday in

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CACI International, the US contractor implicated in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq, defended its work there on Thursday and said its employees were not involved in "horrendous acts" of abuse. Responding to two

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