Chinese troops rushed to plug "extremely dangerous" cracks in a dam upriver from Dujiangyan an earthquake-hit town, state media said Thursday.

Two days after China's devastating earthquake, Stephen Evans whispered his story of survival into a cell phone as his wife and 2-year-old daughter slept nearby in a tent.

Controversial Iraqi politician Ahmad Chalabi had been making a comeback in Iraq, but NBC News has learned that U.S. military and civilian officials  now have cut off all contact with him.

When a group of Iraqi envoys headed to Iran recently, they  hoped to come away with pledges of cooperation on weakening Shiite militias in Iraq. Instead, they got a scolding.

The blogosphere has been abuzz about audio of a luncheon with former Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld that provides insight into the relationship of media military analysts to the Pentagon.

A suspected missile strike late Wednesday in a Pakistan border village destroyed a house and killed about a dozen people, residents and a militant spokesman said.

The Red Cross on Wednesday boosted its estimate of the cyclone death toll in Myanmar to as many as 128,000 — a much higher figure than the government tally.

Camp Pendleton's commanding general has ordered a Marine to be tried on a murder charge in the killing of an unarmed detainee in Fallujah, Iraq.

A rocket fired from Gaza exploded in a southern Israeli city Wednesday, wounding at least 14 people, just as Israel's leader wrapped up talks in Jerusalem with visiting President Bush.

Li Ande ran a convenience shop, a solidly middle-class citizen in the quiet tourist town of Dujiangyan. Two days later, he's squatting under a tarp with seven members of his extended family.