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. Mon, 12 May 2008 07:43:59 GMT

A powerful, magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck mountainous central China on Monday, damaging buildings and roads and causing injuries and deaths, the local government reported. Mon, 12 May 2008 09:11:47 GMT

The battle over voting rights will expand this week as lawmakers in Missouri are expected to support a proposed constitutional amendment to enable election officials to require proof of citizenship from anyone registering to vote. Mon, 12 May 2008 08:43:43 GMT

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. Mon, 12 May 2008 09:37:19 GMT

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. Mon, 12 May 2008 06:29:40 GMT