A Panamanian freighter was hit and set ablaze in a rocket attack in the Persian Gulf, forcing the 18-man crew to abandon ship.
Some American news organizations said Tuesday that they are considering protesting the Pentagon's apparent decision to exclude reporters and photographers from on-the-scene coverage of the air strike against Libya.
Prime Minister Shimon Peres dismissed reports Friday that Israel was planning a military strike against Syria to retaliate for suspected Syrian involvement in an attempted bombing of an Israeli airliner in London April 17.
Former actor John Derek, 59, suffered a mild heart attack but was doing fine and resting
James W. Bell, 51, president and founder of Newport Beach-based J .W.
killed with a fence post when it returned to the attack after being dragged off by the tail, the girl's mother said today.
Thailand said it will lodge a protest at the United Nations over the deaths of six people in a Vietnamese attack on its territory over the weekend.
The ruler of the small, oil-rich Persian Gulf state of Kuwait narrowly escaped an assassination attempt Saturday when a terrorist drove a bomb-laden car into a motorcade and set off a massive explosion.
African killer bees attacked two college students on a field trip, killing one and seriously injuring the other, the daily newspaper El Nacional reported Tuesday.
Iraq said its ground forces staged a lightning strike on Iranian lines, seizing enemy positions and killing hundreds of Iranian troops.
I find the public position taken by Meese at the American Bar Assn. in denouncing the Supreme Court rulings, which support the constitutional separation of church and state, "somewhat bizarre."
Iran and Iraq sent their planes deep inside each other's territory to strike the opposing capitals.
Iran attacked the Iraqi capital of Baghdad with missiles today and Iraq retaliated with an air raid on Tehran and three other Iranian cities as Arab League ministers sought a way to end the 4 1/2-year-old Persian Gulf war.
U.S. Olympic Committee President John B.
A leftist guerrilla group today claimed responsibility for the restaurant massacre of 13 people, saying it was aimed at the four U.S.
Leftist guerrillas killed at least 42 troops and wounded 68 in a major attack today on a military
Glendale High Coach John Brennan didn't want to see his team get into a high-scoring shootout with crosstown rival Burroughs of Burbank.
The lectures on South African apartheid at two Orange County colleges last week couldn't have been more different in style and content if they'd been given by the Rev.
Black nationalist guerrillas attacked one of South Africa's most important energy installations early Thursday, firing as many as six large rockets at a complex that converts coal into oil and petrochemicals.
Soviet leader Mikhail S.