Israel appears surprised by a rebuke from the US administration about its new settlement...

Israel has arrested a leader of the Palestinian Hamas...

Many backers of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra from all over Thailand are converging on...

Drug related violence in Mexico has left another 25 people dead, four of them from...

In Canada, three people are dead while others are still buried under piles of snow, after an avalanche hit a snowmobile competition near Revelstoke, British...

In Iraq, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's political coalition has taken the lead after last weekend’s...

Iran has dismantled several opposition Internet networks it says were backed by the...

The Vatican has denounced attempts to involve the pope in scandals surrounding paedophile activity within the Catholic...

Suicide bombers have killed around 30 people in Kandahar City,...

President Barack Obama of the US is now pushing for education...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Some 2,000 people protested against the release of what they said were toxic fumes in a small town on Russia's Pacific coast on March 14, one of a series of unusually large...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -- Russia's top public health official has called for a ban on retail sales of alcohol after 9 p.m. as part of a Kremlin-led campaign to crack down on alcohol abuse, state-run news...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has voiced regret over the announcement of a Jewish settlement plan that has strained ties with Washington and threatens the revival of...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) -- Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has edged ahead in early results of an election Iraqis hoped would end years of sectarian strife, but the tight race indicated long and fraught...

Chile from 1973 to 1990 and continued as army commander until 1998, would be hard to exorcise. But the scenes of Chileans’ embracing soldiers who aided in rescue and reconstruction efforts...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — The Taliban today called their deadly bomb attacks on the southern city of Kandahar a warning to NATO's top general that the insurgents were ready for the war's next...

SAN DIEGO — Investigators with Toyota Motor Corp. and the federal government could not replicate the runaway speeding reported by a Prius owner who said his car's accelerator stuck as he drove...

Travelers were met by lectures in various fields of science during their Sunday morning commute, as three Hebrew University professors gave lectures on a train traveling north from...

An avalanche struck a rally of up to 200 snowmobilers in Canada's Rocky Mountains last night, killing at least three people and leaving an unknown number missing, police said. Rescuers were still...

United States President Barack Obama's visit to Australia at the end of the week will be delayed, at best, by three days under changes due to his bid to shore up support in the US Senate for his...

The Israeli military said last night that security forces had arrested a leading member of the Hamas militant group's military wing in the West Bank. The military spokesman's office says Maher Udda...

The Vatican has denounced what it called aggressive attempts to drag Pope Benedict XVI into the spreading scandals of paedophile priests in his German homeland. It also insisted that church...

LEADVILLE - Before she disappeared last year 31-year-old nurse Jamie Paulin-Ramirez told her family she had converted to Islam and said they'd go to hell if they didn't follow in her steps. Her...

Shrink President Nicolas Sarkozy faces a severe drubbing in mid-term regional elections today which will - temporarily at least - scramble the arithmetic of French politics. According to the final...

From the outset, there was no way the venture could fail. After all, it combined the United States' eternal love of lists with the country's most celebrated criminals and the organisation that likes...

Shrink The iconic statue of Christ the Redeemer with outstretched arms that overlooks Rio de Janeiro is getting a US$4 million ($5.7 million) renovation. Heavy rains have eroded portions of the face...

Factory worker Chen Qinghai frowned as he looked at a tall bulletin board full of help-wanted notices from companies making everything from photocopiers and DVD drives to mobile phones and car parts....

The State Department authorized U.S. government employees at six U.S. consulates in northern Mexico to send their family members out of the area because of concerns about rising drug-related...

(CNN) -- Three people connected to the U.S. consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, were killed in a drive-by shooting in the violent border city, a senior White House official told CNN...

Washington (CNN) -- The top Republican in the House and a senior White House adviser on Sunday debated a plan for closing the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay and moving some of the terrorism...

Northern Ireland's chief constable has compared dissident republican terrorists to criminal street gangs he encountered in London in the 1980s.Matt Baggott was speaking on Radio Ulster's Seven Days...

Garikoitz Ibarlucea Murua is accused of taking part in street violence in the turbulent Basque region of northern Spain. He was detained in Soho, London, under a Spanish extradition warrant. ...

Rome - A World War II bomb discovered during construction of a new station for high-speed trains in central Rome was defused Sunday after nearby homes were evacuated, the ANSA news agency reported. ...

By Matt Robinson Tbilisi - Georgia's opposition accused the government on Sunday of being behind a fake primetime news report that Russian tanks had entered the capital at the call of the...

Miami - Devotees of a man who claims to practise an African religion say they became sick after they drank the mucus of a giant African snail. Authorities raided Charles Stewart's home after...

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama is "outraged" by the murders in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico of three people connected with the U.S. consulate there, a White House official said on...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House officials on Sunday confidently predicted quick final passage of healthcare reform but a top Democratic vote-counter said they still need to line up more support in...

Gibbs: Health Care "This Week" White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told Bob Schieffer that health care reform will pass the House in one week. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said that House...

poised to push through the health care reform bill with a 51-vote majority in the next several days are on a "kamikaze mission," and are heading for a "political wipeout" in the upcoming November...

The End Result on Health Insurance Reform Karen Ignagni, President of AAHP and Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Shultz join Bob Schieffer for a discussion on insurance reform in health...

A laborer walks past 108 N. Indiana Avenue just before demolishing it; the house began leaning towards the one next to it after sustaining damage earlier in the day by winds gusting up to 60mph...

Once upon a time it was hard to decipher what was more difficult to stomach: the foolish, detrimental behavior of a professional athlete or the apologists disguised as their inner circle, eager to...

We all know the importance of educating girls (and boys, too) in poor Muslim countries. So it is exciting to come across a successful educational model developed by an unusual Afghan educator to...

By Denis D. Gray ASSOCIATED PRESS BANGKOK -- Tens of thousands of red-shirted protesters rallied in Thailand's capital Sunday to press their demand that the government dissolve Parliament or face...

By The top House Republican said Sunday the GOP can defeat the Democratic health care bill that may reach the House floor this coming week. Rep. John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, said GOP...

Iran's supreme leader has condemned a fire festival traditionally held in the days leading up to the country's New Year's celebrations in March. The Chahar Shanbe Soori festival, in which celebrants...

(RFE/RL) -- Georgians reacted with fear and in some cases panic to a mock television report claiming that invading Russian tanks had crossed the border heading for Tbilisi, and that Georgian...

(RFE/RL) -- The beleaguered southern Afghan city of Kandahar is in mourning after a series of bombings in that killed at least 30 and wounded 50 more. Among the dead in...

Palestinian government, the Israeli military said. A military statement described Maher Audi as a founder of Hamas in the West Bank and said he was responsible for the death of 10 Israelis. There...

Sri Lanka ’s hill country. My driver motioned to the back seat, where a police officer we picked up a few miles back was sitting. His presence lent an air of authority, and we were promptly...