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(CNN) -- A fire engulfed a two-story house in eastern Tennessee, killing nine people -- including four young children, as they slept, local officials said. A 19-year-old man, who was on the first floor, escaped the blaze, according to the Evensville Fire Department. Evensville is about 45 miles north of Chattanooga. (Watch what remains of a fire that claimed a family -- 1:08) The fire departmen ...

VALPARAISO, Chile (AP) -- Socialist pediatrician Michelle Bachelet, who suffered prison, torture and exile under Chile's military dictatorship, was sworn in as the nation's first female president on Saturday and promised to heed the voices of all Chileans. "I want a government in which citizens have an active participation," the 54-year-old told residents of the town of Casablanca shortly after her inauguration. "A government at the service of people." Bachelet, who was el ...

(CNN) -- Authorities with the U.N. war crimes tribunal are investigating the death of Slobodan Milosevic after the former Yugoslav president was found dead Saturday morning in his cell in The Hague, Netherlands. He was 64. Milosevic, who was on trial before the tribunal, was found in bed at the Scheveningen detention center. He probably had been dead for several hours, an official with the chief prosecutor's office said. Milosevic's family and supporters are blaming the tribunal for his deat ...

By Tim Hepher PARIS (Reuters) - French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin prepared on Sunday to defend his unpopular labour reforms after riot police stormed the historic Sorbonne university in Paris to end a protest over the new law. Villepin was scheduled to give a major television interview a day after riot police smashed their way into the faculty's halls in the heart of the capital's Latin Quarter and dragged some 200 demonstrators from the building. The students started their sit-in o ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- The identities of 2,600 CIA employees and the locations of two dozen of the agency's covert workplaces in the United States can be found easily through Internet searches, according to an investigation by the Chicago Tribune. The newspaper obtained the information from data providers who charge fees for access to public records and reported on its findings in Sunday editions. It did not publish the identities or other details on its searches, citing concern it could endanger the ...