August 2009 Headlines
Grief-stricken and parentless, Teera began a very personal journey of healing that eventually led her to reach out to people suffering with the disease.
After two years in control of the government, Hamas leaders there are enforcing stricter Sharia laws on Gaza residents.
In a report sent to the Pentagon and NATO headquarters on Monday, Gen. Stanley McChrystal described the situation in Afghanistan as serious.
Residents stocked up on food and authorities set up shelters as a strengthening Hurricane Jimena pushed toward Mexico's resort-studded Baja California peninsula on Monday.
The U.S. military is packing up to leave Iraq in the largest movement of manpower and equipment in modern military history.
Mohammed Jawad was recently released after a military court dismissed the case against him.
More than 200 people gathered Sunday to tell Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi he's not welcome in their town.
An explosion ripped through a line of trucks ferrying fuel to NATO troops in Afghanistan, Sunday.
Japan's ruling party conceded a crushing defeat Sunday after 54 years of nearly unbroken rule.
An Iraqi journalist jailed after hurling his shoes at former President George W. Bush will be released next month after his sentence was reduced for good behavior, his lawyer said Saturday.
President Hamid Karzai widened his lead in Afghanistan's presidential race as new vote tallies were released Saturday, inching closer to the 50 percent threshold of votes he needs to avoid a run-off.
Pakistani court has ruled that A.G. Khan is a free man and should be permitted to travel freely with no restrictions.
Ramadan occurs each year when the new moon is sighted in the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. This is the first time in 33 years that Ramadan has been celebrated in August.
A roadside bomb killed a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan Friday, making August the deadliest month of the 8-year war.
Female gorillas at the London Zoo were shown photos of their intended male suitor.
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday declared that opposition leaders from the recent post election crisis in the Islamic Republic to be prosecuted.
People in China and Taiwan are still trying to pull their lives back together after a deadly typhoon struck the region earlier this month.
There has been a possible breakthrough in the political crisis that has gripped the central American nation of Honduras.
A suicide bomber lightly wounded a senior Saudi prince largely credited for Saudi Arabia's anti-terrorism campaign on Friday.
South Korea may begin scaling back on Christian missionaries' travel to the Middle East.
Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in Berlin Thursday, urging German Chancellor An-Gela Merkel to get tough with Iran.
Honduras is usually a top destination for North American missions teams, but since the ouster of President Manuel Zelaya many are canceling their trips.
The month of August is on track to be the deadliest month for the U.S. military in Afghanistan.
Taiwan said Thursday it has agreed to let the Dalai Lama visit the island to comfort survivors of a devastating typhoon.
A total of 802 American troops have died since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan began in 2001.
President Hamid Karzai widened his lead over his top challenger Wednesday after Afghan officials released more partial vote results.
A cluster of vehicle bombs detonated simultaneously in Afghanistan on Tuesday killed at least 41 civilians.
Five car bombs that detonated simultaneously rocked Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar killing at least 36 people and wounding 64 others.
One of Iran's most prominent pro-reform figures admitted fomenting unrest and asked for the country's forgiveness Tuesday.
The Iranian-backed Shiite parties that helped propel Iraq's prime minister into power three years ago dumped him on Monday.
Scottish government defended their decision, Monday, to release the Lockerbie bomber last week.
Stefania Fernandez, 18, won the annual competition held this year in the Bahamas.
Several governments around the world are beginning to crack down on their citizens access to the Internet.
Fire crews outside Athens scrambled Monday to exploit a lull in high winds, but the flames spread further and a dozen nuns had to be rescued from a convent threatened by one blaze.
The Swedish government has drafted legislation that could end all homeschooling in the country.
As public support for the war in Afghanistan erodes, President Barack Obama soon may face two equally unattractive choices
The first woman in Muslim-majority Malaysia to face caning for drinking beer was reprieved Monday because of the holy month of Ramadan.
A controversial art exhibit in Glasgow, Scotland, is causing a stir among Christians in the United Kingdom.
Scotland's government defended itself Sunday against unrelenting criticism from the U.S.
FBI Director Robert Mueller sharply criticized Scotland's justice minister for releasing the Lockerbie bomber, an act that "gives comfort to terrorists" all over the world.
Pope Benedict XVI made his first public appearance since having the cast removed from his broken right wrist.
Adm. Mike Mullen expressed concern about eroding public support as the U.S. and NATO enter their ninth year of combat and reconstruction operations.
Every summer the group Adventures in Missions helps scores of U.S. Christians make missions trips. The teams come back with lots of memories - and photos.
A high-level North Korean delegation conveyed a message from leader Kim Jong Il to the South Korean president during a rare meeting Sunday.
The commander named by members of the Pakistani Taliban as its new leader is as ruthless as his predecessor.
Charges of fraud in Afghanistan's presidential election are extensive enough that they could sway the final result.
More than 90 wildfires have ignited since Saturday across Greece, and six major fires were burning late Sunday.
Tens of thousands of mourners filled the lawn outside parliament for the state funeral Sunday of ex-President Kim Dae-jung.
Dozens of wildfires broke out across Greece, torching olive groves, cutting off villages and sending residents fleeing Saturday.
Karzai's leading challenger accused him of using the Afghan state to "rig" this week's election and detailed allegations of cheating by government officials.
The suicide bombers who blew up explosives-laden trucks outside government buildings in Baghdad may have been aided by members of Iraq's security forces.
Opponents of the 2007 law claim it is overly intrusive and could turn thousands of good parents into criminals.
President Hamid Karzai and top challenger Abdullah Abdullah each positioned themselves Friday as the winner of Afghanistan's presidential election.
The country of Mexico will no longer prosecute citizens who are apprehended with small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, and heroine in their possession.
Caster Semenya learned to ignore the taunts. She ran alone across a landscape of high grasses dotted with rocky hills.
The only man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing returned home Thursday to a cheering crowd after his release from a Scottish prison.
Scotland's government freed the terminally ill Lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds Thursday.
Mike Huckabee came to Israel for a three-day visit and found himself at the center of a political storm.
Turnout was low in Afganistan's elections Thursday as the Taliban threatened to disrupt voting.
Iran has lifted a yearlong ban and allowed U.N. inspectors to visit a nearly completed nuclear reactor.
China detained two factory officials after 1,300 children were poisoned by pollution from a manganese processing plant, days after emissions from a lead smelter in another province sickened hundreds.
Afghanistan is counting the ballots after millions voted, Thursday, in the nation's second-ever presidential election.
Nearly simultaneous truck bombs struck Iraq's Foreign and Finance ministries Wednesday as a wave of explosions killed at least 95 people.
Afghans voted under the shadow of Taliban threats of violence Thursday to choose their next president.
A delegation of U.S. Catholic church leaders are visiting Cuba and calling on President Obama to end the embargo against the communist nation.
Scottish Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill said he had informed the families of the victims that he had come to a decision about what to do with the terminally ill al-Megrahi.
A law that allows men to starve their wives if they refuse to obey sexual demands is set to take effect in Afghanistan.
Residents in Iraq and Afghanistan are both living in fear as evidence of al Qaeda and terrorist activity continues to linger.
Israeli officials have accused the United Nation's International Atomic Energy Agency of hiding incriminating evidence about Iran's nuclear weapons program.
Gunfire and explosions reverberated through the heart of the Afghan capital Wednesday on the eve of the presidential election.
Former President Kim Dae-jung, who spent years as a dissident under South Korea's military dictatorship, died at 85 Tuesday.
Security forces captured the Pakistani Taliban's top spokesman in an operation near the Afghan border, dealing another blow to the militants.
Permanent peace in the Middle East topped the agenda of President Obama's meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Tuesday.
The first hurricane of the Atlantic season loomed far out in the ocean Tuesday, gaining power and moving on a track that forecasters said could take it close to Bermuda by the end of the week.
The move is part of a joint effort by NATO and Afghan forces hoping to protect voters in advance of Thursday's elections in the country.
A fire that tore through a wedding tent killing dozens in Kuwait, Aug. 15, was a crime done for personal reasons.
A law that allows men to starve their wives if they refuse to obey sexual demands is set take effect in Afghanistan.
Order has been restored in the Gaza town of Rafah after a gun battle between Hamas and a rival Islamist group over the weekend left at least 24 people dead.
North Korea followed recent conciliatory gestures toward the U.S. and South Korea with a return to threats Sunday.
Richard Holbrooke began an official visit Sunday, his first since the reported death of the militants' leader, Baitullah Mehsud, in a CIA missile strike Aug. 5.
A powerful underwater earthquake struck western Indonesia on Sunday, injuring four people as they tried to flee, officials said.
Iran on Sunday put on trial 25 more activists for their alleged involvement in the turmoil following the recent presidential election.
The first shipments of foreign aid arrived Sunday as Taiwan struggled to reach more than 4,000 people still stranded.
An American man imprisoned in Myanmar for sneaking into the home of detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi flew out of the country Sunday.
Imagine being sent to prison for wearing pants. That's what happened to a woman in the African nation of Sudan.
A ransom demand has been received for the return of a Russian-manned freighter that went missing last month in the Atlantic, Finnish investigators said Saturday.
A suicide car bomb exploded Saturday outside the main gate of NATO's headquarters five days before Afghanistan's presidential election.
Stung by international outrage over the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's ruling generals agreed Saturday to hand an American prisoner involved in her case to a visiting U.S. senator
A Russian-manned cargo ship that vanished last month in the Atlantic was found Friday near Cape Verde off the coast of West Africa, according to French and Russian officials.
Former reformist lawmakers appealed to a powerful clerical body in Iran to investigate Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's qualification to rule in a challenge to the country's most powerful man over the postelection crackdown.
The past few months have seen an increase in violence in Pakistan. Christians have often been the targets.
Pakistanis' views on the Taliban have shifted dramatically in the past year, with 70 percent now opposing the terrorists.
Barefoot and helmeted, the frightened survivors of deadly Typhoon Morakot dangled high over jagged rocks and a raging river.
The nation of Yemen, like Pakistan's tribal regions, is rugged, mountainous and extremely tough to govern. And like Pakistan, Yemen has an al Qaeda problem.
Every year, more than 5,000 women are executed by members of their own families.
There is growing concern that the man who bombed Pan Am flight 103 more than 20 years ago may be released from a Scottish prison.
Pakistan's nuclear sites have been attacked three times within the past two years, according to the Times of India.
A battle between rival Pakistani militant groups has reportedly killed about 70 fighters.
Somali Islamic extremists beheaded four Christians after kidnapping them on July 27, according to a report from the group, International Christian Concern.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is downplaying talk of war between Israel and the terrorist group Hezbollah in Lebanon.
The crisis that began when President Manuel Zelaya was forced into exile six weeks ago continues to worsen.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton continued her tour of Africa, Wednesday, focusing on issues ranging from Islamic extremists to sexual abuse.
Kuwaiti authorities say they have arrested six men who were planning to attack a U.S. military base with a truck filled with explosives and chemicals.
Rescuers in Taiwan have found nearly 1,000 people alive in the area around three remote villages wiped out by typhoon Morakot, Taiwan's military said Wednesday.
A suspected insurgent, slain during a 16-hour siege last week was not Indonesia's most-wanted terrorist, Noordin Muhammad Top.
U.S. Marines backed by Harrier jets stormed a strategic Taliban-held town in southern Afghanistan before dawn Wednesday.
Afghans head to the polls next week in only the second presidential election since the fall of the Taliban regime.
Several bombs exploded nearly simultaneously Tuesday in a mainly Shiite area in Baghdad, killing at least eight.
Japan owes much of its economic prosperity to the relentless work of its people. They not only work hard, they've learned to prefer their company's welfare over their personal needs.
While touring Africa, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had strong words for a student who asked what former President Bill Clinton thought about Chinese contracts in the Congo.
Britain, Spain and Holland will have an even higher percentage of Muslims before that time, according to a study by the
London Telegraph.
A Myanmar court found Aung San Suu Kyi guilty of violating her house arrest by allowing an uninvited American to stay at her home.
Nigeria and Angola are Africa's top two oil producers, yet most of their people live in wretched poverty.
Christian singer Steven Curtis Chapman has endured a journey heartbreak, but through it all he's worked to bring hope to orphans in China.
Pope Benedict used his Sunday message to discuss the Holocuast, telling pilgrims that Nazi concentration camps were extreme symbols of evil.
Tsunami warnings were issued for countries skirting the Indian Ocean that were devastated by a deadly 2004 quake and tsunami.
Pakistan is worried that al Qaeda is trying to install its own "chief terrorist."
Clinton heads to Congo on Monday after wrapping up a trip to Angola where she pushed democratic reform and announced the country would get more money to fight AIDS.
Typhoon Morakot pummeled several Asian countries during the weekend, leaving a wide swath of destruction.
It marks President Barack Obama's first North American Leader's Summit. Among the topics to be discussed--the swine flu pandemic.
A series of bombings killed an estimated 40 people in Iraq on Monday.
Christians in Nigeria and Pakistan are on edge after witnessing days of death and destruction.
An Afghan plane bound for the restive western Chinese region of Xinjiang was sent back to Afghanistan after a bomb threat.
Typhoon Morakot struck after triggering the worst flooding in Taiwan 50 years, leaving dozens missing and feared dead.
Iran's police chief acknowledged Sunday that protesters detained in postelection unrest were abused in custody but said the deaths of prisoners were caused by illness, not torture.
Obama, Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper are meeting for a two-day summit.
China's top economic official assured jittery investors that easy credit policies aimed at kick-starting a recovery would continue.
At least nine people were killed and nine others missing Monday in western Japan after Typhoon Etau slammed into the country.
Pakistani authorities are increasingly convinced that the notorious head of the country's Taliban movement was killed in a CIA missile strike.
Police reportedly killed the self-proclaimed Southeast Asian commander of al-Qaeda on Saturday in a 16-hour siege of a village hide-out.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton pronounced U.S.-South African ties on the mend after years of strain.
A young woman and embassy staff accused of involvement in Iran's postelection unrest appeared before an Iranian judge Saturday.
The TV series airs on the Enlace Television Network throughout Latin America, the U.S. and Spain.
Hundreds of thousands of mourners bid farewell to former Filipino President Corazon Aquino, as she was laid to rest, Wednesday.
An incoming adviser to the U.S. commanding general in Afghanistan predicted Thursday that the U.S. has only two years to turn the Afghan war around before it should admit defeat and go home.
Pakistan's Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud has been killed in a U.S. missile strike, Pakistani intelligence officials said Friday.
Since surviving the Holocaust as a child, Israel's former chief rabbi spent decades searching for the man who saved his life but that search has ended.
Pakistani police suspect that the Muslim rampage, leaving eight Christians dead, might have been part of a new strategy.
Thousands of troubled families in England will soon be monitored by their government through video cameras in their homes. In addition, private security guards will do home inspections.
Wycliffe Associates has announced plans to build a Bible translation center in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Two American journalists freed from a North Korean prison after four months tearfully reunited with their loved ones Wednesday morning in California.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was sworn in Wednesday for a second term in office as president of Iran.
The Gaza Strip is famous for being one of the world's most troubled areas, but some young people there have found a way to relax thanks to a friend they have never met.
One of two rival groups vying for control of the Palestinian movement is holding its first major conference in 20 years.
Western officials warned that Somalia's al-Shabbab terror group is a growing danger. Now those warnings are hitting home.
After being held as prisoners in North Korea for nearly five months, Laura Ling and Euna Lee are heading home to American soil.
The abortion pill known as RU-486 has been approved in Italy despite opposition by the Vatican.
The compositions are part of the musician's first orchestral movement.
The government of Iran confirmed Tuesday that it has detained three American tourists.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is scheduled to arrive in Kenya on Wednesday, kicking off a tour of seven Africa nations in 11 days.
A string of rockets slammed into Kabul on Tuesday in the first major attack on the Afghan capital in the run-up to this month's election.
A powerful earthquake Monday shook the fishing villages along Mexico's Gulf of California.
Mourners wept as they paid their respects at the wake of former President Corazon Aquino on Sunday.
The Taliban killed at least 12 people and critically injured a local police chief on Monday with a remote-controlled bomb hidden in a trash can
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is appealing to Iran for information about the U.S. citizens.
Days of rioting between Christians and Muslims in eastern Pakistan following allegations that a Quran was defiled escalated Saturday, leaving six Christians dead, including a child, authorities said.
Military honor guards carried former President Corazon Aquino's flag-draped casket to a school gym Saturday for public viewing, as Filipinos mourned the beloved democracy icon.
For nearly two decades, Navy pilot Michael "Scott" Speicher's family pressured the Defense Department to find an answer to his disappearance during the Gulf War.
Government forces hunted on Sunday for surviving members of a radical Islamist sect after heavy fighting left at least 700 people dead.
A conservative who ran in Iran's disputed election and a former president criticized the government's prosecution of opposition supporters.
Fans screamed and ran for cover as a fierce thunderstorm caused an outdoor stage to collapse at a country music festival.
Thousands of people have been placed under quarantine in a town in northwest China after a man died of pneumonic plague.
Hundreds of police officers scoured the streets of Tel Aviv on Sunday in a manhunt for a gunman who shot and killed two people at a youth club.
At least five people were killed and 34 others wounded Sunday in a car bombing in a mainly Sunni area northwest of Baghdad, police said.
Michael Phelps beat Milorad Cavic again and became the first swimmer to break 50 seconds in the 100-meter butterfly, beating the Serbian with a time of 49.82.
Israeli police say a gunman entered a youth club for gay teens in central Tel Aviv on Saturday night and sprayed the interior with automatic rifle fire, killing three people and injuring 11.
Iran state TV confirmed Saturday that it has detained three Americans who crossed the border from northern Iraq, saying they failed to heed warnings from Iranian guards.
