A massive earthquake struck China on Monday, killing more than 7,000 people in one province alone and trapping nearly 900 students under the rubble of their school, raising fears the death toll could increase.

Crews and search dogs hunted Sunday for survivors or bodies in piles of debris after tornadoes and storms rumbled across the region a day earlier and killed at least 22 people in three states.

As the House Democrats'  'big tent' expands, it is getting more Southern.  How much influence can conservative Southern Democrats such as Rep. Don Cazayoux have on a House leadership headed by liberal Speaker Nancy Pelosi?

More than a month since their children were removed from an FLDS compound in Texas, two sets of parents and a representative for the families alleged  that the state has deliberately scattered and isolated the children.

The first U.S. relief airlift arrived in Myanmar on Monday after prolonged negotiations with the country’s isolationist junta, which considers Washington its enemy and has restricted international aid to as many as 2 million cyclone victims.

At least 40 developing countries from the Persian Guld region to Latin America have recently approached U.N.  officials here to signal interest in starting nuclear power programs, a trend that concerned proliferation experts say could provide the building blocks of nuclear arsenals in some of those nations.