Uli Schmetzer

A senior official of China`s legislature ruled out an amnesty for political prisoners Wednesday after a delegation of Hong Kong Chinese delivered a plea for their release. ''The National People`s...

A British crime novel, ''Bodies,'' published in 1986, has a scene in which a distraught father explains to a detective why the father had not objected when his son accepted...

Israeli authorities tightened their economic noose on the West Bank and Gaza Strip Tuesday as Palestinian Arabs launched a two-day general strike to protest the Israeli occupation of those territories....

The big placard hoisted Tuesday by demonstrators outside the U.S. Embassy on Rome`s fashionable Via Veneto carried a message from 1 million Italians to a girl awaiting execution in Indianapolis...

The economic summit opened in a stink Monday when the main sewage pipe burst on St. George Island, where the seven leaders are meeting over three days. Carabinieri paramilitary police...

The Vatican imposed a complete ban on all conception by artificial or surrogate methods Tuesday, asking sterile married couples to accept their fate and adopt children rather than try to...

Santa Claus lives in an old red house near the Oslo waterfront, below a mountain of letters. His faithful reindeer, Rudolph, is stabled 1,500 miles to the north, where ice,...

Santa Claus faces dismal days in Italy this year, thanks to the country`s 5 million bureaucrats who have decided to turn the season of goodwill into a month of discontent....

The man who could not sleep is dead. He was the 14th member of his family to die from lack of sleep since 1822. Two of his sisters succumbed to...

Rev. Lawrence Martin Jenco, the Joliet priest who was held for nearly 19 months by Moslem terrorists, flew to Rome Tuesday night with a message from his captors for Pope...