AP - Doctors couldn’t figure out what was wrong with the first person to die of swine flu. The 39-year-old woman arrived at their hospital gasping for air, her hands and feet blue from oxygen-starved blood.
AP - A Dutch driver careened through police barriers and plowed into a crowd of merrymakers cheering their popular queen Thursday, in a premeditated assault on the royal family that killed five bystanders and injured 12, authorities said.
AP - The Iraq war formally ended for British forces on Thursday as America’s main battlefield ally handed control of the oil-rich Basra area to U.S. commanders and prepared to ship out most of its remaining 4,000 troops.
AP - The vast majority of Iraqis who fled their country have no plans to return even though violence is way down, many hoping instead to resettle in the West.
AP - For some imprisoned in the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, getting out of jail has not meant freedom.
AP - Only a few Afghan villagers waved as the new American forces patrolled deep into this valley, a warning sign even in a region not exactly known for its love for foreign troops.
AP - A jetliner struggled to liftoff and only took flight after slamming its tail into the runway in March because someone entered the wrong weight for the plane into the flight’s computer, Australian investigators said Thursday.
AP - As of Wednesday, April 29, 2009, at least 4,278 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
AP - Human Rights Watch said Wednesday that the Mexican army is failing to hold soldiers to account for possible human rights abuses including killings, torture and rape.
AP - As of Wednesday, April 29, 2009, at least 4,278 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
