A military investigation concluded that recent American airstrikes on a village in western Afghanistan killed more civilians than previously acknowledged.

Brazil's first truly national soccer museum is a reminder in this soccer-mad nation of how Brazilians became the most successful footballers the world has known.

The U.S. deputy secretary of state said that the U.S. and Iraq were close to an agreement governing the presence of American troops.

A federal judge ordered the Bush administration to release 17 ethnic Uighers from Guantánamo and let them stay in the U.S.

As European leaders continued to clash over measures to ease the financial crisis, Britain announced a massive bailout for its beleaguered banks, and Spain moved to mount a separate rescue of its own banking sector.

Japanese stocks suffered their biggest one-day fall in more than 20 years as fears of fallout from the global financial crisis shook markets throughout the region and prompted a halt in Indonesian trading.