Voting is underway in the western U.S. state of Nevada's Republican presidential caucuses, with members of the party choosing the candidate they want to see take on President Barack Obama in...

A private in the U.S. Army is to face a court martial after leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks.

Private First Class Bradley Manning, 24, has been in prison since his arrest one-and-a-half...

In the worst violence of the near year-long crackdown by government forces, Syrian security forces have launched a massive attack on the people of Homs.

Using heavy artillery, the Syrian forces...

Many of us doubt that Iran is on the way to building a nuclear bomb.

Trying to find the truth is not easy. It was a bit of a one sided conversation since I don't know the inner workings of the...

CAIRO - Three people were killed in Cairo, and 6 in Suez, as thousands of angry protesters clashed with security forces in Egypt's capital Cairo and other cities for a second day Friday over the...

TEL AVIV - Iran is trying to strike Israeli targets around the world in retaliation for the assassination of its nuclear scientists, a top security official has warned.

Yoram Cohen, the head of...

BANGKOK - Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes tribunal has rejected an appeal by a Khmer Rouge jailer Kaing Guek Eav alias Duch, and increased his sentence to life imprisonment for crimes against...

US ambassador to the UN Susan Rice said she was "disgusted" by the Russian and Chinese veto on a UN Security Council resolution on Syria that urges President Bashar al-Assad to step down.

Thirteen...

Russian ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin said he vetoed a UN Security Council draft resolution on Syria because "it sends an unbalanced signal", and called for an "objective" UN resolution that...

NAIROBI, Kenya - A good harvest and food aid inflows have improved the situation in Somalia, the United Nations said Friday declaring that the country is out of "famine" situation, while underlining...

The UAE will host an international aviation exhibition March 6-8 in Abu Dhabi, it was announced Saturday.

It will be the region's first aviation expo, organiser Al Bateen Executive Airport...

Iran will stop its oil exports to Europe, Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi said Saturday.

The development comes after the European Union endorsed the measures adopted by the foreign ministers of the...

Myanmar will draft a media law with help from the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco), the official media reported Saturday.

The information ministry is drafting the law in...

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief Zaka Ashraf has proposed that the England and Wales Cricket Board hosts a one-day tri-series involving Pakistan and India next year, during the recent International...

A total of 3,021 civilians were killed in terrorism-related violence in 2011 in Afghanistan, the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said in its annual report Saturday.

The figure indicates...

Australia is working on finding the best blend of players for the upcoming Twenty20 World Cup in Sri Lanka this September.

The Australian team utilized the two Twenty20 matches against India to...

In a new study, an international team of scientists pooled their radio observations into a database to produce the highest precision map to date of the magnetic field within our own Milky Way...

Israel's facilities in North America and around the world are on high alert, as they face an Iranian security threat, an internal document has said.

"We predict that the threat on our sites around...

Somalia's famine has ended but drought in the Horn of Africa region continues to pose a threat to the area, the UN has said.

"Long-awaited rains coupled with substantial agricultural inputs and the...

The United Nations is backing a mass vaccination campaign under way in northern Cameroon, where a new outbreak of yellow fever has killed at least seven people.

The vaccination campaign, which began...

Early diagnosis is the key to reducing the nearly eight million deaths caused by cancer across the globe annually, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) said today, stressing the...

The United Nations and humanitarian partners today revised upwards an appeal for funding to continue relief work for six months among the more than 300,000 people in the Philippines island of...

A United Nations political team heads to the Maldives next week for talks on how to help support the Indian Ocean archipelago in its transition to democracy.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's...

The United Nations disaster risk reduction agency stressed today the need to boost preventive measures in Fiji, as heavy rains are predicted to occur more frequently in the archipelago nation, which...

The United Nations International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled today that Italy has violated its obligation to respect Germany's immunity under international law by allowing civil claims seeking...

The head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) said today that he hopes to decide next week on the partial certification of parliamentary elections held in the West...

The United Nations declared an end to famine conditions in Somalia today, but warned that the crisis in the Horn of Africa is not over and requires continued efforts to restore food security and help...

AMSTERDAM - The International Court of Justice has ordered Italy to annul all compensation claims against Germany for Nazi war crimes, saying Rome had breached international laws when its courts...

ROME (AFP) - Hundreds of people were rescued Saturday after a ferry caught in a snow storm hit a breakwater off Italy, as a vicious cold snap that has claimed over 260 lives across Europe tightened...

Canada's Richard Weinberger captured a silver medal in the men's 10-kilometre at an open water swimming World Cup on Saturday, assuring himself a spot at the Olympic qualifying event.The...

Tourists walk past the snow covered Circus Maximus in Rome, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012. A rare snowfall blanketed Rome forcing the closure of the Colosseum over fears tourists would slip on the icy...

Here is another, somewhat belated, offering for that shortlist that never was at the end of last year - that of the outstanding achievers in British sport who also happen to be female.Because England...

LAS VEGAS: Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney looked set to romp to victory in the Nevada caucuses Saturday, cementing his position as frontrunner four days after his crushing Florida...

After a weeklong cold snap that has killed scores of people across Eastern Europe, more than 3 feet of snow fell in Sarajevo on Saturday. The tough winter weather also has hit cities in southern...

Tankers would use Douglas Channel to gain access to the terminus of Enbridge's proposed Northern Gateway oil pipeline at Kitimat, British Columbia. (Darryl Dyck/Canadian...

In an often contentious meeting -- with parents shouting out both their support and disapproval of school decisions -- school officials presented the results of their initial testing before taking...

MUNICH (Reuters) - The U.S. military, which is cutting its presence in Europe, plans to expand its training of European partners to cope with new threats posed by interlinked criminal and militant...

More than 300 people were killed in the Syrian protest hub of Homs, as a UN Security Council vote on a resolution to condemn the violence ended with a dual...

(Reuters) - A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck off Vancouver Island on Saturday, some 209 miles west of Victoria, the capital of the Canadian province of British Columbia, the U.S. Geological Survey...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez arrives at a military parade to commemorate the 20th anniversary of his failed coup attempt in Caracas February 4,...

(AP) SEATTLE - A 5.7 earthquake has been recorded about 105 miles west of Ucluelet off the coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. A National Earthquake Information Center spokesman in Golden,...

(CBS/AP) President Barack Obama issued a remarkably strong statement Saturday condemning the Syrian regime's "unspeakable assault" against its own people, following Friday's...

A BATTLE between a class of fourth graders and a major movie studio would seem an unequal fight.


So it proved to be: the studio buckled. And therein lies a story of how new Internet tools are...

Lindsey Vonn of the United States reacts after winning an alpine ski women's World Cup downhill race in St. Moritz, Switzerland, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Keystone/Arno Balzarini)...

Pope Benedict XVI believes that in a noisy world of constant communication people need silence more than ever.He outlined his thoughts in his message for World Communications Day 2012, which is...

VATICAN CITY, 24 JAN 2012 (VIS) - A press conference was held this morning in the Holy See Press Office to present Benedict XVI's Message for the forty-sixth World Day of Social Communications,...

BEIRUT (AP) -- Russia and China vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution aimed at ending Syria's bloodshed, despite international outrage Saturday over a devastating bombardment of the city of...

CAIRO (AP) -- Their kidnappers gave them tea and dried fruit, and talked about religion and tribal rights. The California women were allowed to bring their Egyptian tour guide with them. One even put...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- London's tabloids and British leaders are depicting Argentina as dangerous and belligerent 30 years after its invasion of the Falkland Islands. Argentines say...