When their 13th-floor apartment began to shake, Alberto Rozas pulled his 7-year-old daughter Fernanda into the bathroom doorway and waited for it to stop. But as their brand-new apartment building toppled like a felled tree, the pair plummeted, hugging...

Sen. Joseph Biden said Tuesday that Pakistan’s transition to a civilian government after eight years of military rule gives the U.S. a chance to adopt a foreign policy based on the whole nation _ not just President Pervez Musharraf. Biden, the...