MOSCOW -Askar Akayev signed his resignation as Kyrgyzstan's president yesterday, lawmakers said, raising hopes of ending political turmoil in the strategic Central Asian country 11 days after he fled ahead of protesters storming his offices.
BAGHDAD, Iraq -Insurgents attacked the Abu Ghraib prison west of Baghdad, injuring 20 U.S. forces and 12 prisoners on Saturday while six people were killed elsewhere in Iraq following a period of declining attacks that had raised hopes the insurgency might be weakening.
A local Athens tourist attraction may soon see an increase in visitors if a national magazine's promotional campaign is successful.
The Ohio baseball team (7-12 overall, 2-2 Mid-American Conference) evened its conference record with a 6-2 win in the first game against Kent State Friday behind a strong performance from Derek Witt.
(U-WIRE) -Last January, world leaders gathered to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps.
The depiction of American Muslim terrorists in Fox's hit series 24 has elicited criticism from Muslims and has raised broader concerns regarding media stereotyping in general, both nationwide and in Athens.
(U-WIRE) -The time has come for the United States to consider leaving the United Nations. As parallel as their names sound, the United Nations has some serious problems that should send us flying in a perpendicular direction.
I have told myself time after time that I would not write about the Terri Schiavo case. This woman and her entire family have suffered enough, and I want nothing to do with prolonging their pain. Yet the extent of rhetoric and misinformation injected into this case by Republicans has left me no choice but to respond. Moreover, this event has been a lesson in modern American politics and a warning sign of what is to come.
Whether it was on the mound or at the plate, Miami pitcher Jackie Poggendorf was too much for the Ohio softball team in yesterday's doubleheader.
The Ohio lacrosse team took a hit yesterday when it suffered an 8-5 loss to Albany in non-conference action at Rensselaer's Harkness Field in Troy, New York.
Pope John Paul II died late Saturday night from septic shock cardio circulatory collapse after serving as head of the Catholic Church for 26 years.
A Saturday night and Sunday morning walk down Court Street looked like any other weekend night Uptown with lines of partygoers outside the bars. The only uncharacteristic element was additional police at every corner.
CLEVELAND -Brian Jones' purchase of a house in Cleveland has linked the California man's future to A Christmas Story
The Ohio Real Estate Commission found an Athens real estate broker guilty of all charges brought against him by a property owner.
BAGHDAD -Lawmakers broke days of rancorous stalemate yesterday and reached out to Iraq's Sunni Muslim minority for their parliament speaker, cutting through ethnic and sectarian barriers that have held up selection of a new government for more than two months since the country's first free elections in 50 years.
The women's golf teem took fourth out of 19 teams this weekend at the Indiana Women's Invitational by shooting a 36-hole total of 635.
An Athens County Court of Common Pleas judge ordered an injunction against Ohio University on Friday, prohibiting it from signing a lease with any developers for the Mill Street Apartments after a labor union filed suit.
In recalling his long life and tenure as the Bishop of Rome, it's instructive to note that Karol Jozef Wojtyla, known since 1978 as Pope John Paul II, had an early encounter with evil that likely informed every decision in his life. In 1939, he was a 19-year-old Polish drama student at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, the same age as a typical OU freshman, when Nazi soldiers marched in and closed the college. He was forced to work in a quarry and then a chemical plant to keep from being deported to Germany. So after witnessing firsthand the gruesome realities of war, he worked almost every day thereafter for peace.
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Efforts put in by the Ohio track and field team produced positive results in the Ohio Invitational, the first of three season appearances at home.
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