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Pakistan's ruling coalition will ask President Pervez Musharraf to seek a confidence vote in Parliament or face impeachment, senior party officials told The Associated Press on Thursday.

SAN FRANCISCO - A helicopter taking firefighters to a northern California blaze crashed, and nine people are believed dead, officials said on Wednesday.Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said ...

DETROIT - Detroit's mayor was ordered jailed on Thursday for violating travel restrictions imposed on him while he awaits trial on perjury and official misconduct charges.Kwame Kilpatrick, once seen as a rising ...

Tremayne Durham, 33, of New York City, admitted last month that he fatally shot Adam Calbreath, 39, of Gresham, in June 2006.

Iraq and the U.S. are near an agreement on all American combat troops leaving Iraq by October 2010, with the last soldiers out three years after that, two Iraqi officials said today.

Toyota said Thursday that its fiscal first-quarter profit plummeted 28 percent, and the automaker stuck to its forecast that full-year profit will fall for the first time in seven years as it faces more ...

MOSCOW - Georgia is preparing for war in its breakaway region of South Ossetia, Russia's foreign ministry said on Thursday after reports of overnight fighting in the area."Concern was expressed that the action ...

Polls taken months before an election strike me as being roughly as reliable as using your household thermometer to figure out the temperature three states away.

KABUL: Seven Afghan policemen and 24 Taliban fighters were killed in a series of clashes in Afghanistan, officials said Thursday.

The animal rights group PETA has tried unsuccessfully to run a newspaper ad comparing the beheading and cannibalizing of a passenger on a Greyhound bus in Canada last week to the treatment of animals by the ...