AP - Two militants were executed by hanging on Saturday for the killing in Amman of a U.S. diplomat.

AP - Residents reported curious declarations hanging from mosque walls and market stalls recently in Ramadi, the Sunni Muslim insurgent stronghold west of Baghdad. The fliers said Iraqi militants had turned on and were killing foreign al-Qaida fighters, their one-time allies.

Ayinde O. Chase - AHN Staff Writer Baghdad, Iraq (AHN) - Iraq executes 13 insurgent terrorists by hanging. The event marks the first time capital punishment has been used since the ouster of Saddam Hussein nearly three years ago. The Iraqi cabinet announcement lists only one of those hanged,...

Ayinde O. Chase - AHN Staff Writer Baghdad, Iraq (AHN) - In a bold move Iraq executed 13 insurgents on Thursday by hanging. The event marked the first time capital punishment has taken place since U.S.-Coalition forces invaded Iraq and ousted Saddam Hussein almost three years ago. In order...

Ayinde O. Chase - AHN Staff Writer Baghdad, Iraq (AHN) - In a bold move Iraq executed 13 insurgents on Thursday by hanging. The event marked the first time capital punishment has taken place since U.S.-Coalition forces invaded Iraq and ousted Saddam Hussein almost three years ago. In order...

AP - Patrick Deuel, who once weighed more than 1,000 pounds, has lost another 81 pounds in a surgery that removed a mass of fat and skin hanging from his midsection.

Ayinde O. Chase - AHN Staff Writer Miami, FL (AHN) - Amidst the antics in Saddam Hussein’s court trial, which has people around the world scratching their heads. When it comes to how Americans feel about the deposed dictator, its rather simple- death by hanging. According to an AP poll,...

AP - Prosecutors at Saddam Hussein's trial presented a document Tuesday they said was signed by the former leader approving the executions of more than 140 Shiites in southern Iraq after an assassination attempt in the 1980s.

AFP - An unprecedented election boycott by opposition parties has immersed Thailand deeper in political uncertainty but the Thaksin government has vowed to go ahead with the snap vote on April 2, according to an aide.

Reuters - The crowds are smaller at New Orleans' first post-Katrina Mardi Gras parades but there is no shortage of fiendishly satirical wit on floats lampooning public figures and agencies with any connection to the devastating hurricane.

AP - The final day at the Turin Olympics began as all the others had — with a gray sky and a sense of indifference hanging over this industrial city in the Italian Alps. With most of the competition completed, the focus now is on the closing ceremony. The director of that extravaganza promises it will be a display of Italian "craziness."

AP - A banner hanging outside Fenway Park said it all: "Thanks, Curt," as Boston bid farewell Saturday to the man whose voice gave fans a front-row seat at events from the World Series to the Super Bowl.

AP - Mouth agape, tongue hanging out, head tilting over — Chad Hedrick looked like he was done. Ever so deftly, Dutch skater Carl Verheijen pulled up right behind him, and Hedrick suddenly shifted into another gear with a burst of short, choppy strides — and took off.

AP - Tom Gregory just spent more than $100,000 on two used cowboy shirts. And he couldn't be happier. The shirts are the ones worn by the ill-fated lovers, played by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, in Oscar front-runner "Brokeback Mountain."

E! Online - A former maid for Robert De Niro will be hanging her duster in the big house for up to three years after sentencing Tuesday on charges related to the "cleaning out" of her clients.

AP - Chad Hedrick cut through the ice in his first Olympic race — arms swinging furiously, body gently swaying, mouth hanging open. When he crossed the line, flipped back his hood and caught a glimpse of the scoreboard, it was time to let out a Texas-sized yell. Yeeeaaaaah! "The Exception" was downright exceptional.