BAGHDAD – An Iraqi official says the body of Tareq Aziz, Saddam Hussein’s former top aide who died last week in prison, is still at Baghdad International Airport under heavy security and due to be flown to Amman. The official from the Iraqi Aviation Authority said Friday that the body …

UNITED NATIONS – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says an independent panel of experts that examined new information about the mysterious 1961 plane crash that killed Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold on a peace mission to newly independent Congo has delivered its report. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Friday that Ban will study the …

STOCKHOLM – Swedish prosecutors say their planned interrogation of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange over alleged sex crimes could take place in London within weeks. Lead prosecutor Marianne Ny said Monday she has submitted paperwork to British and Ecuadorian authorities asking for permission to question Assange at the Ecuadorean Embassy in …

MORELIA, Mexico – Seven people including two police officers have been killed in what Mexican authorities call an ambush of a convoy in the southwestern state of Michoacan. The state Public Safety Department and Prosecutor’s Office say three more officers were wounded in the clash early Tuesday. Police were guarding …

MADRID – Differences over a push for independence in Spain’s northeastern Catalonia region have torn apart the governing coalition group, an alliance that has ruled the region for much of the past 40 years. The Convergence and Union party pact was declared finished Thursday by Convergence, a day after Union …

They are not exactly Cain and Abel, but theologically and philosophically Christopher and Peter Hitchens are just as divided as the brothers of the Old Testament. Christopher Hitchens, 61, author of the bestselling book “God is Not Great,” is one of the world’s best-known atheists. Peter Hitchens, two years younger, …

They are described as the ‘worst of the worst.’ Before dawn in northern Virginia, after days of heavy surveillance, the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Fugitive Operation Team is taking a 42-year-old man from el Salvador into custody. The man, a green card holder, is eligible for deportation because he was …

NASA’s Viking landers may have detected the ingredients for life on Mars after all, according to a new study. Back in the 1970s, the two Viking probes scooped up and heated Martian dirt, then looked for organic molecules — the carbon-based building blocks of life as we know it — …

With a creepy finger licker, a resurrected grandpa and a pug puppy getting the best of a bad man, Doritos was the clear fan favorite out of this year’s Super Bowl commercials. The brand began trending on Twitter by the middle of the first quarter and the commercials were showered …

Just one year ago a pronouncement from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) was all that was needed to move nations and change environmental policies around the world. But today, the panel’s creditability and even its very existence are in question. In the wake of its swift …