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ARKALYK, Kazakhstan (AP) -- A capsule carrying Brazil's first astronaut, along with a Russian and an American, landed in the Kazakh steppe early Sunday after separating from the international space station and hurtling through the Earth's atmosphere. American astronaut Bill McArthur, Russian cosmonaut Valery Tokarev and Brazilian Marcos Pontes touched down on target and on schedule. Officials at ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Brazil's first astronaut landed safely in the Kazakh steppe on Sunday, returning from a 10-day trip in space with a Russian-U.S. crew that had spent six months on board the International Space Station, mission control said. "Soyuz has made a soft landing," a mission control official in Moscow said after the small Soyuz capsule, charred black from re-entry into the atmosphere, b ...

SHEDDEN, Ontario (AP) -- Eight men were found dead inside several vehicles abandoned in a remote wooded area on a farmer's property Saturday. Police were not disclosing many details about the bizarre crime scene in rural southwestern Ontario, except to say that four vehicles, including a tow truck, were involved and that the dead were all adult males. "We're not in a position to reveal how they were murdered," Ontario Provincial Police Sgt. Dave Rektor said at a hastily assembled new ...

JERUSALEM (CNN) -- In a second day of attacks in Gaza, an Israeli airstrike Saturday targeted a training camp, killing at least six militants, Palestinian security and medical sources said. At least five more people were injured, some critically, the sources said. The missiles hit a camp in southern Gaza used by the Abu Rish Brigades, formed by breakaway members from several militant groups, the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, reported. Israel Defense Forces confirmed that it targeted a Fatah- ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. administration is stepping up plans for a possible air strike on Iran, despite publicly pushing for a diplomatic solution to a dispute over its nuclear ambitions, according to a report by influential investigative journalist Seymour Hersh. Hersh's story in the April 17 issue of the New Yorker magazine quotes former and current intelligence and defence officials as  ...

By Michael Georgy BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has warned that civil war had started in Iraq, where three consecutive days of bombings killed about 100 people, inflaming sectarian tensions. The caution comes as Shi'ite leaders are to meet on Sunday in another attempt to break an impasse over the prime minister, hoping to pave the way for a unity government many see as the only way to avert open civil war. "It's not on the threshold (of civil war). It's pretty much star ...

An official photograph of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall has been released to mark the couple's first wedding anniversary. The image, one of five captured by Mario Testino, shows Prince Charles and Camilla in the garden of Clarence House, their London residence. The other pictures will be published in the May issue of British Vogue. The couple are spending their first anniversary privately at Birkhall, in Scotland, where they honeymooned. The other photographs of the royal c ...