With official visits overlapping in Afghanistan, Iran's outspoken president and the US defence secretary have accused each other of interfering in local...

A number of schools in the US were closed down on Wednesday after posted on a social networking...

The US Senate has adopted a draft bill to increase unemployment...

A United Nations report, which is still to be released, has found that up to half the food aid in Somalia is diverted to corrupt contractors, local UN workers and Islamic...

The BBC has reported that a man who has been subjected to claims he is the killer of James Bulger, has asked for the UK government to reveal who the real murderer...

Two UK women who were repeatedly raped and violently abused by their father have received an apology from 28 different public...

Federal prosecutors in the US have charged the owner of a California restaurant over alleged sales of whale meat, which was labelled...

A young actor who became a teen idol during his time as a Hollywood star, has died of unknown...

Politicians and police authorities in Ukraine are investigating the airline industry after an incident on the main...

The main airport in Bangkok has been locked down by soldiers as the Thai capital prepares for anti-government...

Joseph Weber The Bush administration mishandled the rescue effort after Hurricane Katrina, said Karl Rove, the top adviser to former President George W. Bush. Mr. Rove, 59, said the...

By ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) -- Unable to muster bipartisan agreement on key banking provisions, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd said Thursday he will offer his own version...

In a memorable scene from the award-winning German movie “The Lives of Others,” the head of East Germany’s Stasi political police angrily demotes an officer who has shown traces of...

A British court has granted bail to former Bosnian Presidency member Ejup Ganic, who is wanted by Belgrade on war crimes charges stemming from the start of the Bosnian war in May 1992.The High Court...

SANTIAGO, Chile — Chilean President Sebastian Pinera is urging citizens along the coast to move quickly to higher ground following five strongly felt aftershocks, including the biggest since...

Israel early this week to promote new Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and tighten the bonds between Israel and the United States. He leaves on Thursday amid increased uncertainty over the nature and...

From left, Presidents Evo Morales of Bolivia, Fernando Lugo of Paraguay and Rafael Correa of Ecuador during a 7.2 magnitude aftershock during the inauguration ceremony of Chilean President Sebastián...

ATHENS: Greek police battled demonstrators on Thursday as the country ground to a halt in the latest protest strike against government austerity measures aiming to end a crippling debt crisis....

RAMALLAH, West Bank: Prospects for indirect peace talks lay in tatters on Thursday after the Palestinians said they would not negotiate with Israel unless it reversed plans to build 1,600 settler...

Japan's economy grew sharply less in the fourth quarter than initial estimates, the Government said yesterday. GDP expanded at an annual pace of 3.8 per cent in the October-December quarter, revised...

An Israeli supermarket looked to cash in on the infamous surveillance camera footage showing suspected assassins stalking a Hamas operative in Dubai with a new advertising campaign. The commercials...

Britain, Malawi's main bilateral donor, has cut aid to the southern African nation this year after Malawi bought a US$13 million ($19 million) presidential jet last year, a senior British diplomat...

NEW YORK - At a tumultuous time in United Nations-led climate negotiations, one of the world's most credible scientific groups agreed to plug the cracks in the authoritative reports of the UN's Nobel...

Shrink PARIS - More than the Channel divides Britain and France, as testified by their media's response to internet rumours that French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his supermodel wife, Carla...

PHILADELPHIA - Colleen LaRose spent long days caring for her boyfriend's father in an apartment in Pennsburg, a small town north of Philadelphia. But online, United States federal authorities say,...

BERLIN - The parties in Angela Merkel's increasingly embattled Government were struggling to digest their worst popularity rating in nearly a decade yesterday, less than six months after the German...

JOHANNESBURG - Nelson Mandela's ex-wife has bitterly criticised the 92-year-old anti-apartheid icon as having "let us down," prompting outrage in South Africa. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela said she...

LONDON - The British-based businessman Boris Berezovsky has won his claim for libel after being falsely named on Russian state television as the man behind the murder of the former Moscow agent...

Shrink WASHINGTON - They flew planes during World War II but were not considered "real" military pilots. No flags were draped over their coffins when they died on duty. And when their service...

Shrink OTSUCHI - As soon as the fishermen saw my TV camera, one ran at me, yelling "No!" and pushing me out of the building. Another smeared his rubber fish-gutting glove across my lens. Following...

Shrink HAVANA - Looking in the mirror used to make Yiliam Gonzalez sick to her stomach. "I would see myself, and my body didn't match who I was," said the 28-year-old wedding pianist, who went by...

LONDON - Two sisters who were repeatedly raped by their father and gave birth to nine of his children were given an apology yesterday by the authorities that failed to protect them. An investigation...

Shrink LOS ANGELES - "Is this the whale?" joked a noisy patron, pointing to some dark red slabs of tuna on the small tray of sushi, which had just been deposited on his table at one of California's...

Shrink The place where the body of Pol Pot, the former Khmer Rouge leader, was unceremoniously burned in a pile of rubbish is set to be the latest location from Cambodia's dark recent history to be...

The largest aftershock since Chile's devastating earthquake rocked the South American country Thursday minutes before the inauguration of President Sebastian Pinera. The 7.2-magnitude...

They were the strongest aftershocks to rattle Chile since a February 27 earthquake on the country's west coast that toppled buildings and spawned a tsunami, killing several hundred...

Corey Haim weaned down to nearly "zero medications," manager says Haim, 38, seemed to be winning battle against drug abuse before death, manager and co-star say Corey Feldman asks people...

Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- Photos of the nude and decapitated body of a murdered hiker, sought by a writer on assignment for Hustler magazine, will not be released, a judge in Georgia ordered...

These are two of the hundreds of photos recovered during court-authorized searches of Alcala's Monterey Park home and a storage locker Alcala rented in Seattle that were released Wednesday, March 10,...

Chile's President-elect Sebastian Pinera, right, accompanied by his wife Cecilia Morel, waves to the media prior to his inauguration. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/ Max Montecinos) SANTIAGO, Chile - Two...

Justice Secretary Jack Straw has met the mother of murdered toddler James Bulger to discuss the return to prison of one of her son's killers.James was murdered by 10-year-old's Jon Venables and...

A man who killed his ex-girlfriend in a "frenzied" knife attack has been jailed for life at Cardiff Crown Court.Cyron Williams, 20, admitted murdering Joanna Michael, 25, with police...

Two men have been found guilty of murdering a County Tyrone supermarket manager almost two years ago. Shaun Fitzpatrick, 32, was found dead in an alleyway off the Donaghmore Road in Dungannon early...

The government has said the security services face "difficult choices" amid fears of impending spending cuts.The Intelligence and Security Committee said MI5 and MI6 could suffer real-term...

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London - A British Airways computer expert appeared in court on Thursday on charges of planning suicide bombings, with prosecutors saying he tried to get a place as a stand-in cabin crew member...

Valparaiso, Chile - A powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake rocked central Chile Thursday, including the cities of Santiago and Valparaiso where a new president was to be sworn in, authorities said. ...

At least 11 tigers have died of hunger and malnutrition in a Chinese zoo so far this year, the Year of the Tiger in the lunar calendar, local media reported on Thursday. China's wild tiger...

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KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's new prime minister, Mykola Azarov, declaring state coffers were empty, promised on Thursday to meet all obligations to the International Monetary Fund and push through a...