The Los Angeles Times

These are perilous times for customers of airlines, cruise lines and tour companies that may be financially wobbly. When Aloha Airlines, ATA and GrandLuxe Rail Journeys this year stopped operations,...

Even after regulators assured the public all contaminated baby formula was off the shelves, B.X. Wei wasn't going to feed his 2-month-old son anything that came out of a can....

Mystery surrounded a powerful car bomb explosion Saturday that ripped through a residential neighborhood on the outskirts of Damascus, killing at least 17 people and injuring 14 others in the...

This overcrowded Darfur displacement camp is preparing for battle. Men have dug trenches and dragged tree trunks across dirt roads. Young lookouts, some armed with sticks and axes, scan the...

His mother pleaded: Don't go to the road blockade. "I had a bad feeling," she recalled. "It was dangerous." But her son insisted. Edson Abad Ruiz was a proud member...

It has been so long since the sound has been heard in the North Korean capital that at first it seems an illusion, a buzzing in the ear perhaps. But...

They look like birds pecking, grain by grain, along the nation's roadsides. Tattered women and children bend to pick up the smattering of corn blown from passing trucks. The precious...

There is one thing that many angry lawmakers and their constituents agree about the Wall Street bailout being crafted by Congress: Executives at teetering companies the government helps to steady...

U.S. and Pakistani forces exchanged gunfire Thursday along the Afghanistan border, as simmering tensions over American incursions into Pakistan reached a full boil. The incident began, U.S. officials said, when...

U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker on Thursday accused Iran of "pushing very hard" to derail a security agreement that would authorize American troops to remain in Iraq past Dec....