YANGON, Myanmar – Residents of Myanmar’s biggest city lit candles Monday, lined up to buy water and hacked their way through trees felled in a cyclone that killed more than 350 people, destroyed thousands of homes and caused widespread power cuts. Older citizens said they had never seen Yangon, a …

SALT LAKE CITY – A federal judge ordered a $63,000 civil-fraud judgment against four people who claim to be chiefs of an American Indian tribe in eastern Utah. The men, who got organized at an Arby’s restaurant and claim to have hundreds of tribal members, refuse to recognize U.S or …

MOGADISHU, Somalia – Hundreds of youths in Somalia’s capital lobbed stones at shops and cars and set tires ablaze Tuesday in a second day of violence over soaring food prices. Besides rising prices, the protests have been driven by shopkeepers’ refusal to accept some bank notes, apparently out of concern …

TRACY, Calif. – Four men are missing and believed drowned after a boat authorities say was overloaded sank in a California river delta. San Joaquin County Deputy Sheriff Les Garcia said Sunday that a skiff carrying 10 men sank overnight in a canal of the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta. Garcia says …

ROME – Pope Benedict XVI gave U.S. President George W. Bush a rare peek on Friday of the Vatican Gardens, a spot where popes pray privately and only special guests are allowed to stroll. Normally, VIPS are received in the pope’s library in the Apostolic Palace. That’s where Bush had …

This is a rush transcript from “The Journal Editorial Report,” June 14, 2008. PAUL GIGOT, HOST: Up next on “Journal Editorial Report,” the Supreme Court deals a major blow to the war on terror. What this week’s ruling means for the 270 terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay. Plus, worried about …

This is a rush transcript of “Special Report With Brit Hume” from June 5, 2008. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN, D-CALIF.: I welcomed them. I had a chance to talk to — Hillary and came early. …

Authorities in a northern Malaysian city are calling on Muslim women not to wear bright lipstick and noisy high-heel shoes if they want to follow the “Islamic way,” an official said Tuesday. The municipal council in Kota Baru, run by a conservative Islamic party, is distributing pamphlets that recommend women …

WASHINGTON – The FBI said Wednesday that 345 people were arrested and 21 young victims rescued in a recent round-up of child prostitution suspects. “The mission of the ‘Innocence Lost’ national initiative is to combat the growing problem of sexual exploitation of children through prostitution,” said Federal Bureau of Investigation …

WASHINGTON – Faced with global warming, plants are heading for the hills. A study of 171 forest species in Western Europe shows that most of them are shifting their favored locations to higher, cooler spots. For the first time, research can show the “fingerprints of climate change” in the distribution …