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...

By ASSOCIATED PRESS PARACHINAR, Pakistan -- Pakistani fighter jets pounded a series of Taliban hide-outs near the Afghan border Sunday, killing nine insurgents, a local official said. The...

By ASSOCIATED PRESS The White House isn't relenting in its strong criticism of Israel for plans to build 1,600 new apartments for Jews in east Jerusalem, which Palestinians are seeking as their...

By Devlin Barrett ASSOCIATED PRESS Two guns used in high-profile shootings this year at the Pentagon and a Las Vegas courthouse both came from the same unlikely place: the police and court system of...

By Noor Khan ASSOCIATED PRESS KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- The governor of Kandahar province demanded more security around Afghanistan's largest southern city Sunday after a series of explosions killed...

By ASSOCIATED PRESS The majority whip in the House of Representatives said Sunday that right now there aren't enough votes to pass President Obama's health care overhaul. Meanwhile, President...

By Bruce Shipkowski ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- Utility crews pushed through fallen trees and windblown debris to reach downed power lines Sunday, working to restore electricity to...

to reduce to a minimum the number of non-Chechens in Chechnya. And as part of his project to transform Chechnya into an Islamic state, he has also issued instructions to leading Muslim clerics to...

widespread panic and outrage. The report was aired at prime time on March 13 by the pro-government Georgian television channel Imedi. The footage is not available on the...

Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso of Spain won the Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix. SAKHIR, Bahrain — The first race of the Formula One season delivered just about everything it was hoped it would, as...

It’s zero hour for the controversial health-care bill, as the Obama administration readies for a vote this week.Democrats spent last week in a frenzy of strategy sessions for the delicate...

With a view like this, they might as well be living in Times Square. Upper East Side residents are fuming that "sign pollution" is turning their posh neighborhood into an urban eyesore. On a stretch...

Jerusalem (CNN) -- Israeli forces have arrested a senior Hamas operative they say is responsible for killing more than 70 Israelis in various terrorist attacks, the Israel Defense Forces said...

Fernando Alonso led Felipe Massa to a stunning Ferrari one-two after the Red Bull of Sebastian Vettel hit trouble at the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix.Alonso trailed the German from the start but...

Former England goalkeeper and long-serving Birmingham City player Gil Merrick has been remembered by fans at a memorial service.Supporters gathered at the club's St Andrew's stadium in the stand...

A Labour MP caught up in a reselection dispute is fighting claims from local party members she is not up to the job.Activists are attempting to have Anne Moffat deselected as Labour's candidate in...

Market abuse in the UK's financial services sector is at an "unacceptably high level", the head of the City watchdog has said.Hector Sants, the chief executive of the Financial Services...

OUTRAGED Georgians yesterday slammed a local television channel that sparked panic by broadcasting a faked report announcing that Russia had launched an invasion and the country's president was...

As it happens, Barack Obama is due here soon, although the visit has been put back and shortened because he needs to sort out the US health system.But he will be here. And by then we'll have filed...

The historic heart of Bangkok became a sea of colour as huge crowds of red-shirted anti-government protesters - estimated at more than 100,000 - from all over Thailand surged into the capital calling...

WHEN Harrison Ford arrived at the Oscars with his sweetheart Calista Flockhart in a Prius eight years ago, the green car became Hollywood's most chic and politically correct transport...

ALASKAN hunters were yesterday searching a remote peninsula for a pack of up to four wolves believed to have killed a 32-year-old jogger in what is described as the first fatal wolf attack in the US...

The Tamil National Alliance, which backed the rebels in a 26-year civil war, said in its platform for April 8 parliamentary elections that it would accept a "federal structure" in the north...

IT was a proud day for French cuisine when the authorities announced plans to distinguish chefs who upheld tradition by designating them as "master...

DIPLOMATIC tensions between Australia and Japan are spreading beyond the emotional issue of whale hunting in the Antarctic, as Japanese resentment grows at Kevin Rudd's decision not to attend a...

A fourth Muslim arrested over an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist who drew the Prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog has been released without...

(Reuters) - A senior White House adviser said on Sunday that President Barack Obama would get the votes necessary to pass a sweeping overhaul of the healthcare...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Finance ministers from countries using the euro hope to agree on Monday on a way of providing heavily indebted Greece with financial aid, despite French doubts that a deal will...

Eaton, a 22-year-old student at the University of Oregon, scored 6,499 points in the seven-event competition at the NCAA championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas on Saturday, breaking 1996 Olympic...

CLEARWATER, Fla. - Riding on a late-night bus from Rochester or Scranton or some other International League town last summer, Kyle Kendrick finally began to understand what Jamie Moyer, Rich Dubee,...

PHILADELPHIA - Utility crews are working to restore power to thousands of suburban Philadelphia customers left without power by a weekend storm. PECO spokesman Fred Maher says about 32,000 customers...

HARRISBURG, Pa. - Some day it might be remembered as the Tea Party primary. The newly forming activist groups that identify heartily with calls for cutting taxes, red tape and government programs...

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. - The retirement nest egg of an entire generation is stashed away in this small town along the Ohio River: $2.5 trillion in IOUs from the federal government, payable to the Social...

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...

By Bob Lewis ASSOCIATED PRESS RICHMOND -- Legislative budget negotiators finally came to terms on a new bare-bones budget for the cash-strapped state government early Sunday. The two sides shook...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) -- A list led by Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki had a wide lead in early results from the southern oil hub of Basra a week after Iraq's parliamentary election, the country's...

SAARISELKA, Finland (Reuters) -- A U.N. resolution on new sanctions against Iran may not be ready until June and if a vote on it fails, European states could take unilateral measures instead, French...

The Post's Style section highlights the exhibit at the Library of Congress, which showcases some of the thousands of handwritten scrolls and letters sent in by listeners to RFE/RL's Afghan...

Georgia's political opposition has denounced a mock television report of a Russian invasion as Georgian government-sponsored propaganda which they said had traumatized many people.The mock report,...

They should be rollin' in dough, but they're not. Three of the Bay City Rollers, who shimmied to fame with the 1970s hit "Saturday Night," have filed suit against the rest of the former band members,...

TBILISI, Georgia : Outraged Georgians on Sunday slammed a local television channel that sparked panic by broadcasting a faked report announcing that Russia had launched an invasion and the country's...