The Los Angeles Times

The senior party in Pakistan's ruling coalition inaugurated a push Friday to elect its leader, Asif Ali Zardari, as the country's next president. A spokeswoman for the Pakistan People's Party...

Regulators looking into the auction-rate securities debacle have turned their attention to nearly 40 brokerages that might have sold the paper to clients but didn't underwrite it. Investigators from the...

Prices may be rising unpleasantly fast, but what really worries the Federal Reserve is the weak economy, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said Friday. Using careful language, the central bank chief...

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, after meeting here with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Thursday, downplayed expectations that the signing of a U.S.-Iraq security agreement is imminent. "We'll...

Russia plans to establish a long-term presence inside Georgia and one of its breakaway republics by adding 18 checkpoints, including at least eight within undisputed Georgian territory outside the pro-Russian...

The number of civilians killed by the Colombian armed forces has soared, activist groups say, with many of the abuses committed by army units that had been vetted by the...

It was a troubled flight from the beginning. One attempt at takeoff was aborted. Departure was delayed by more than an hour. Passengers, many of them parents traveling with their...

The annual college textbook rush starts this month, a time of reckoning for many students who will struggle to cover eye-popping costs of $128, $156, even $198 a volume. California...

Two car bombs struck near a hotel and a military compound in Algeria on Wednesday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 31 others, the Algerian Interior Ministry said. The...

In the worst single-incident loss of life in at least three years for Western troops in Afghanistan, insurgents ambushed and killed 10 French soldiers and wounded 21 others in a...