In a rare show of bipartisanship, Senate Democrats and Republicans will hold a joint meeting next month to mark the 40th anniversary of Sen. John McCain's release from a North Vietnamese prison.

NEW YORK - John McCain will be the host of AMC cable network's Memorial Day weekend marathon of movies celebrating war heroes.

HANOI, Vietnam - Angelina Jolie plans to adopt a young Vietnamese boy and he probably will be moving to the United States in no more than three months, Vietnam's top adoption official said Wednesday.

HANOI, Vietnam - Tea Leoni visited young Vietnamese at a support center for people who are HIV-positive, promoting AIDS awareness in a country where infection rates are rising.

MOSCOW - President Bush, eager for Russian help in ongoing nuclear disputes with North Korea and Iran, tended to the sometimes frosty Washington-Moscow relationship Wednesday by paying a quick call on Russian President Vladimir Putin.

This is by way of removing the ice pick from Bill Laurie’s eye.

A man who exploited a 16-year-old girl and transported her across several states forcing her into prostitution could spend a lifetime behind bars for his crime. Hanoi Barbaro Acosta, 30, of Oregon was found guilty of transportation of a minor for prostitution by a federal jury Friday.

BANGKOK, Thailand - The Vietnamese government said Saturday that an Associated Press journalist was violating its laws when he photographed a demonstration by land protesters in Hanoi, but sought to deny that he was beaten while in police custody.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Swedish broadcaster SVT on Thursday released a previously unseen film clip purportedly showing the release of presidential candidate John McCain to the U.S. military in Hanoi in 1973.

"Trickle-up poverty, aka socialism, means everyone will be getting crumbs."

An idea that started in a garage five years ago has led a group of Chandler entrepreneurs to Hanoi, Vietnam, in hopes of landing what could be millions of dollars in sales of mobile data centers to the former U.S. enemy that now wants to rapidly expand its digital infrastructure.

“The latest example of idiocy in the Arizona Legislature is by Sen. Robert Blendu and his committee compatriots who think it’s OK to obscure license plates to avoid citations.”

HANOI, Vietnam - Envoys meeting on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific economic summit, tried Wednesday to cobble together a united strategy for upcoming talks aimed at convincing North Korea to drop its nuclear weapons program.

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HANOI, Vietnam - Angelina Jolie's adoption application is being processed quickly and she could pick up her new 3 1/2-year-old son within a few weeks, Vietnam's top adoption official said Tuesday.

HANOI, Vietnam - Angelina Jolie has filed papers to adopt a Vietnamese child, the country's top adoption official said Friday.

HANOI, Vietnam - President Bush, on his first visit to a country where America lost a two-decade-long fight against communism, said Friday the Vietnam War's lesson for today's confounding Iraq conflict is that freedom takes time to trump hatred.

PHOENIX — A suspected case of the mysterious respiratory illness known as SARS has been reported in Arizona, health officials confirmed Monday.

JAKARTA, Indonesia - When Sri Murtiningsi asked her third graders what they wanted to be when they grew up, the answers ranged from doctors to a pilot. One boy in the class raised his hand: Barack Obama said his dream was to be president of the United States.

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam - Instead of stuffing themselves with turkey and all the fixings, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie spent Thanksgiving cruising around Vietnam's largest city on a motorbike.