Associated Press

Sen. Joe Lieberman said Sunday the United States should consider a military strike against Iran because of Tehran's involvement in Iraq.

Several thousand Turkish troops crossed into northern Iraq early Wednesday to chase Kurdish guerrillas who operate from bases there, Turkish security officials told The Associated Press. By Selcan Hacaoglu

The people of the Central Pacific do not need science to understand one possible effect of global warming.

Cuba - With one word — "unlawful" — the only two war-crimes trials against Guantanamo detainees fell apart in a single day, marking a stunning setback to Washington's attempts to try dozens of detainees in military court. By Andrew O. Selsky

President Bush envisions a long-term U.S. troop presence in Iraq similar to the one in South Korea where American forces have helped keep an uneasy peace for more than 50 years, the White House said Wednesday. By Terence Hunt

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday stressed their agreement on the need to fight global warming and greenhouse gas emissions, despite persistent sharp differences over how to go about it.

The detainee who died at Guantanamo Bay in an apparent suicide was identified Thursday as a Saudi military veteran and self-described Islamic holy warrior who denied he ever intended to kill Americans.

Heavy rains pounded central Oklahoma on Sunday, sending swollen rivers and creeks over their banks and stranding hundreds of campers who came for the holiday weekend at a popular park.

A flash flood swept away a group of hikers alongside a mountain river in southern Greece, killing at least six people, police said Sunday.

California energy commissioners have imposed new rules forbidding utilities from signing new contracts with coal-fired power plants that don't find a way to pump their emissions underground.

An estimated 820 million people around the world do not get enough to eat, despite delivery of 2.5 million tons of American food a year worth more than $1 billion, the U.S. Office of Food for Peace told Congress on Thursday. By Barry Schweid

Biofuels like ethanol can help reduce global warming and create jobs for the rural poor, but the benefits may be offset by serious environmental problems and increased food prices for the hungry, the U.N. said Tuesday in its first major report on bioenergy.

Every business on the main street of Greensburg, Kan. was demolished by one of the strongest tornadoes to rake across the Great Plains of the central United States.

Unless someone or something stops it soon, the mysterious killer that is wiping out many of the nation's honeybees could have a devastating effect on America's dinner plate, perhaps even reducing us to a glorified bread-and-water diet. By Seth Borenstein

Investigators will review hundreds of hours of video of an immigration rally where police clashed with the crowd, wielding batons and firing rubber bullets to break up the demonstration, the police chief said Thursday.

Nunavut - Inuit hunters are falling through thinning ice and dying. Dolphins are being spotted for the first time. There's not enough snow to build igloos for shelter during hunts. By Beth Duff-Brown

The UN Security Council held a groundbreaking debate yesterday on the impact of climate change on conflicts, in spite of objections from developing countries that global warming was not an issue of international peace and security. By Edith M Lederer

Malaysia accused Western activists Monday of trying to undermine the palm oil industry by claiming that orangutans are threatened by the clearing of forests in Malaysia and Indonesia.

Emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide rose 18 percent in the United States from 1990 to 2004, with Texas and Nevada leading the way, an environmental group reported Thursday.

Dying dolphins in the Mediterranean, reduced livestock in Britain, the extinction of plants in the Alps, and frequent heat waves across the continent -- this is what is awaiting Europe in the next decades because of climate change, according to a report released yesterday. By Eliane Engeler

In books such as "Slaughterhouse-Five," "Cat's Cradle," and "Hocus Pocus," Kurt Vonnegut mixed the bitter and funny with a touch of the profound. By Christian Salazar

New York in a rueful reflection on what might have been, an Iraqi government insider details in 500 pages the U.S. occupation's "shocking" mismanagement of his country -- a performance so bad, he writes, that by 2007 Iraqis had "turned their backs on their would-be liberators." By Charles J. Hanley

They take issue with how diplomats edited the latest warning on global warming and plan their own update. By Seth Borenstein

A U.S. judge has advanced a lawsuit against the government over its funding of overseas projects that environmental groups claim contribute to climate change.

Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that his administration plans to create "collective property" as part of sweeping reforms toward socialism, and that officials would move to seize control of large ranches and redistribute lands deemed "idle." By Christopher Toothaker

Barren and uninhabited, Hans Island is very hard to find on a map. Yet these days the Frisbee-shaped rock in the Arctic is much in demand _ so much so that Canada and Denmark have both staked their claim to it with flags and warships. By Doug Mellgren

U.N. human rights expert told the U.N. human rights council on Thursday that Israel's treatment of Palestinians is comparable to apartheid.

Defense Department investigators said Tuesday they are going to be more aggressive suspending or barring companies from doing U.S. contract work in Iraq if they are involved in war profiteering there.

When the cherry trees come alive in their explosion of pink, millions of Japanese hit the parks for one of this country's biggest outpourings of merrymaking. By Kana Inagaki

The harmful effects of global warming on daily life are showing up, and within a couple of decades, hundreds of millions of people won't have enough water, top scientists will say next month at a Belgium meeting. By Seth Borenstein