US citizen David Headley has pleaded guilty to finding the targets for the 2008 attacks on the Indian city of...

A retired US general has said homosexuality in the Dutch armed forces was partly responsible for failing to prevent the 1995 genocide in Srebrenica during the Bosnian...

US President Barack Obama has cancelled forthcoming trips to Indonesia and Australia so he can stay home to oversee controversial healthcare...

US and Russian negotiations for a strategic arms reduction treaty are said to be going well, with foreign policy chiefs from both countries meeting in...

Zimbabwe's dual leadership has agreed with South African president, Jacob Zuma, that measures will have to be taken in order to save the fragile...

A married couple in India has been arrested for allegedly killing five young...

At least 25 people have been killed in a bus crash in...

The head of the US Federal Reserve has partially opposed president Barack Obama's new rules to regulate financial...

The head of the Iranian atomic energy agency, Ali Akbar Salehi, has told local television the country will make concessions to the West by exchanging Tehran's low-grade uranium for highly enriched uranium that it needs for its medical...

US drone strikes have killed at least 10 militants in...

The Palestinian Authority has closed down the only Christian TV broadcaster in the...

A painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, which was once withdrawn from sale due to links with Nazis, is to be sold by its current owner, composer Andrew Lloyd...

A scientific discovery has shown early humans were living on the Indonesian island of Flores many years before first...

The acting Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has dismissed his...

Aid is being sent to the Fiji islands which have been hard hit by Cyclone...

The French government has blamed the Basque terror organisation ETA for the killing of a French police officer on...

The court said there was not enough evidence to determine whether the man and the woman had actually had an affair, which could have brought a harsher...

People eat sushi at a sushi restaurant with blocks of tuna placed on the counter outside Tsukiji wholesale market in Tokyo, Japan, Thursday, March 18, 2010. Opposition grew Wednesday against a...

Australia's Trade Minister Simon Crean says selling uranium to Russia would not violate the country's precondition that it only be used for peaceful purposes. The government has not ratified a 2007...

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wraps up a visit to Moscow today with talks with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Discussions are expected to focus on a new nuclear arms pact, which Clinton...

More Politics News Mrs. Clinton kept her appointment with Mr. Obama in the Oval Office, taking her customary seat on the yellow sofa as the two talked about her coming trip to the Persian Gulf,...

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi held a news conference with Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and Majority Whip James Clyburn after the Congressional Budget Office announced their score on the House...

Hillary Rodham Clinton late Thursday to propose what he called a package of “mutual confidence building” steps to be taken by Israelis and Palestinians to help restart peace negotiations....

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is quite right. As he said in his speech at the Knesset on Monday while greeting Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, over the last four decades, every...

MANCHESTER: A five-year-old British boy whose 12-day kidnap ordeal in Pakistan sparked an international police operation that led to arrests in Europe arrived home Thursday. Sahil Saeed was brought...

Australian euthanasia activist Dr Philip Nitschke has been banned from four Irish venues during a European tour of his controversial right-to-die workshops. The director of Melbourne-based assisted...

Shrink A second man has been found dead in Fiji after a tropical cyclone hit its eastern islands early this week. Josefe George Batisarisari, 43, a Public Works Department worker, died while trying...

Washington (CNN) -- The pilots of Northwest Flight 188 did not fall asleep when they overflew their destination by more than 100 miles in October, the National Transportation Safety Board said...

Kelly, now 59, spent much of his childhood living in institutions run by Catholic orders in Ireland. The abuse he remembers most vividly took place at a reformatory in Daingean, in central...

Central Falls, Rhode Island (CNN) -- The teacher at an embattled Rhode Island school who displayed an effigy of President Obama in his classroom is under disciplinary review, according to the school...

Washington (CNN) -- A retired U.S. general said Thursday that the Dutch policy of allowing openly gay soldiers to serve in its military led, in part, to its failure to halt the massacre of Muslims in...

In this Nov. 11, 2009 file photo, TV journalist Christiane Amanpour attends the Focus For Change charity event in New York. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Carlo Allegri, file) NEW YORK - ABC News has hired...

The UN's former envoy to Afghanistan, Kai Eide, has strongly criticised Pakistan's recent arrest of high-ranking Taliban leaders.Mr Eide told the BBC the arrests had completely stopped a channel of...

A rising number of teachers are worried about the quality of A-level marking, a report by England's exams watchdog suggests.More than a third of 298 A-level teachers surveyed (37%) said marking of...

The harsh winter may have had a devastating impact on Britain's wildlife, it has been warned.British Waterways, which looks after 2,200 miles of the nation's waterways made the comments as it...

Toyota has wriiten a furious letter to US television network ABC, demanding it retract a report claiming their cars could speed out of control because of an electronics...

Creativity such as Elliott's and that of other lefties, Clark believes, may be spurred as left-handers are forced to find their own, innovative ways to succeed in a right-handed world.He points to a...

Members of the Thurston County Sheriff's dive team search the beach, Monday, March 15, 2010 at the spot where the unoccupied van reportedly driven by Silverdale resident Shantina M. Smiley was found,...

Obama Vows to Overhaul Immigration Laws (AP) President Barack Obama, facing criticism from advocates of immigration reform, pledged Thursday "to do everything in my power" to get immigration...

Philadelphia Schools Superintendent Arlene Ackerman said Thursday that she did not support changing magnet-school admissions requirements to increase diversity, and declared the proposal dead. ...

City school district officials formally acknowledged Thursday that 17-year-old Hao Luu was not connected to a street gang - an allegation that was used to ban him from South Philadelphia High. ...

A group of Lower Merion School District parents is asking a federal judge for a say in resolving the laptop spying lawsuit filed last month. They want answers and privacy assurances about the use of...

FILE - In this March 5, 2004 file photo, actor Fess Parker, who starred in "Davy Crockett" and "Daniel Boone", unveils a 180-year-old Kentucky long rifle as he presents it to the Alamo for its...

Declaring his campaign kickoff "an awesome night, a longly anticipated one," former Eagles offensive lineman Jon Runyan promised to rein in government spending and cut taxes if elected to...

TRENTON, N.J. - An Assembly panel on Thursday approved legislation making public worker pension and health care benefits less generous, a move designed to put the state retirement system on sounder...

This undated photo provided March 18, 2010 by the Consumer Product Safety Commission shows a high chair made by Graco Children's Products, Inc. The government on Thursday announced a voluntary recall...

Prime Minister George Papandreou of Greece on Thursday in Brussels. He said he wanted to “borrow on reasonable terms.” Turning to the I.M.F. would represent a new and potentially humiliating...

U.S. President Barack Obama's popularity may be declining in American public opinion, but a sweeping majority of Israelis think his treatment of this country is friendly and fair, according to a...

The tiny Islamist faction Ansar al-Sunna took responsibility for the Qassam rocket attack that took the life of a Thai farm worker yesterday in Netiv Ha'asara. Like Hamas, Israel has no interest in...

Shrink LOS ANGELES - A former porn actress has released sexually graphic text messages that she says prove her affair with Tiger Woods, and she says she has more potentially embarrassing information...