Al-Qaeda militants killed 23 members of Iraq's security forces across the country on...

Police in France say a woman has admitted to suffocating eight newborn...

Russia's special forces have managed to prevent a hijacker from taking complete control of a plane carrying 105...

Over 100 people have died in flash floods triggered by torrential rains in Pakistan and...

The FBI has been asked to look into how Wikileaks got hold of more than 90,000 classified US military...

Police in riot gear stared down protesters in a tense stand-off in Pheonix, Arizona on...

Another US serviceman has been found dead in a remote area of...

Indonesian police have been involved in a confrontation with people who were attacking a mosque used by a minority Islamic...

The US polling group, Pew Research Centre, has done a survey in Pakistan to determine how Pakistanis view the Taliban and other terrorist...

The British government has refused to consider returning the jewel in the British monarch's...

Pakistan reached more than 300 on Friday, rescue and government officials said, as rains bloated rivers, submerged villages, and triggered landslides. (AP...

Mr. Assad rarely goes to Beirut — his last trip was in 2002, which at the time was the first visit by a Syrian leader to the Lebanese capital in nearly three decades.Many...

Susannah Floyd Garrett, left, and her brother Jarvis Patrick Garrett, grandchildren of frontier lawman Pat Garrett, pose for photos Thursday, July 29, 2010 at the La Posada Hotel in Santa Fe, N.M....

Giornia Sanchez march in protest Thursday, July 29, 2010, in Phoenix to rally against Arizona's new immigration law, SB1070. Opponents of Arizona's immigration crackdown went ahead with protests...

U.S. military official, shows a group of men in the streets of the New Baghdad district of eastern Baghdad just prior to being fired upon by the helicopter July 12, 2007. In a series of online...

FBI agents cheated on a test of new rules allowing the bureau to conduct surveillance and open cases without evidence that a crime has been committed. (AP...

By COLLEEN BARRYASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER ROME -- Doctors have successfully transplanted windpipes into two cancer patients in an innovative procedure that uses stem cells to allow a donated trachea...

As Muscovites suffer record high temperatures this summer, a Russian political scientist has claimed the United States may be using climate-change weapons to alter the temperatures and crop yields of...

Less than a year after the country's last elections, the Republic of Moldova finds itself at a crossroads once again. The "Twitter revolution" in Chisinau last April that made waves in the...

of Iranian cyclists popping champagne corks and spraying champagne at the crowd after winning a competition in China and accused riders of "irrational and anti-Islamic" behavior. Rajanews...

KABUL, Afghanistan — Three more U.S. troops have been killed in Afghanistan, bringing the U.S. death toll for July to at least 66 and making it the deadliest month for American forces in the...

Mel Gibson apologized to his ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva via email the day after he allegedly attacked her in an incident being investigated by Los Angeles cops, entertainment...

New images of Anna Chapman circulating around the internet Friday showed that even on a police mugshot the suspected Russian spy could retain the poise and glamor that made her famous during last...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Seneca Indians in the mail-order cigarette business are awaiting a judge’s ruling on whether they’ll have to comply with a new federal law. About 140 western New...

New Yorkers can now pay allegiance to their borough with their shoes. Nike is offering limited-edition sneakers featuring different colors, logos and identifying laces for each of the city’s...

An aerial view of flooded hit areas after heavy monsoon rains on the outskirts of Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan, Friday. PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- The death toll from three days of flooding in...

MEXICO CITY — Mexican soldiers have killed a leader of the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel in a shootout, providing a badly needed victory to...

sanctions the European Union is imposing on Iran over its disputed nuclear program, saying it supports Iran's renewed efforts to hold talks on a possible swap of nuclear fuel, a spokeswoman for...

Boycotts. Old motives, new tactics Within a few days, on June 6, a brand-new protest action took place in front of one of Cairo’s Starbucks branches. The hot and humid Cairo weather didn’t...

It never ends, the work never ends,” exclaims Minister of Welfare and Social Services Isaac Herzog, moving aside a high stack of papers from the center of his desk, as we sit down in his...

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu must have had a horrible feeling of deja vu on Monday when Yohanan Locker, his military aide, told him that a Yasour helicopter carrying six IAF airmen had crashed...

Two Britons were killed when their bus overturned in Jordan, the Foreign Office confirmed today. The women died with three Iraqi women while taking part in a UN-sponsored training course,...

The mother of murdered British teenager Scarlett Keeling today told a court how she learned her daughter was dead in a phone call from the girl's boyfriend. Fiona MacKeown gave evidence for...

Immigration Reform Law Institute , the legal affiliate of the Federation for American Immigration Reform. He helped draft Arizona's SB 1070, the Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods...

Nihita Biswas, who claims to be the wife of French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, and a friend leave the Supreme Court in Kathmandu July 30, 2010. The court upheld the life sentence verdict handed...

Bristol City have signed England goalkeeper David James following his release from Portsmouth.James, who turns 40 next week and lives in Exeter, has signed a one-year deal at Ashton Gate, but has the...

Venue: Hungaroring Dates: 30 July-1 August 2010 Coverage: Comprehensive live coverage of Friday practice, Saturday qualifying and Sunday's race - which starts at 1300 BST - across BBC TV, radio and...

Charges follow quad bike deaths Two men, 21 and 23, will face charges after a raid on a Cardiff shop ended with the deaths of two others on quad...

Military kills Mexico drug lord The Mexican government says security forces have killed leading drug trafficker Ignacio "Nacho"...

In the middle of a busy holiday season, the left-wing group, calling itself Sect of Revolutionaries, said in a statement: "Tourists must learn that Greece is no longer a safe haven for capitalism. ...

All 34,000 traders, investment bankers and other Goldman employees will no longer be allowed to use swear words or even asterisks to denote oaths. Computer software will screen all messages to...

near a rural airport in southern Indiana. The Jefferson County coroner's office says 69-year-old Charles Lunceford of Lewisport, Ky., died Wednesday at University Hospital in Louisville. Deputy...

ANCHORAGE Alaska (Reuters) - All four crew members were killed in a U.S. Air Force cargo plane that crashed in flames while practicing for an aviation show at Elmendorf Air Force Base, the Air Force...

Wednesday’s airplane crash that killed 152 people, rescue workers continued the search for body parts and the aircraft’s black box under clear skies on Friday here...

The head of the council advising Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on rights unexpectedly quit Friday, in a blow for the Kremlin chief who has made developing civil society a priority of his rule. ...

The White House is imploring the website Wikileaks not to post any more classified documents about the Afghanistan war, saying US national security and Afghan lives are at risk. Press secretary...

Forest fires raged across Russia on Friday, destroying villages, surrounding one southern city and killing at least 20 people, including three firefighters, officials said. The fires have spread...

Israel must lift its military blockade of the Gaza Strip and invite an independent, fact-finding mission to investigate its raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, a United Nations rights body said on...

Stockholm - A former Swedish police chief was on Friday sentenced to six and a half years in jail for sex crimes including three rapes, in a case that garnered intense media scrutiny in Sweden. ...