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...

Pakistani police have reported a militant incident at the offices of a US-based Christian aid...

Bangladesh has been accused of starving and blocking medical treatment for Rohingya...

By ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) -- Toyota's massive recalls are prompting Congress to reconsider whether the nation's auto safety agency has lived up to its mission of protecting motorists. A...

By FRANK JORDANSASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER GENEVA -- Information on 24,000 HSBC customers with Swiss accounts has been stolen, the British bank said Thursday, potentially exposing large numbers of...

News ) said Thursday, in its pre-close year end statement, that financial performance remained in line with its expectations set out earlier and anticipates full-year revenues of between $3.7 billion...

News ) reported Thursday, in it preliminary results, a 6% increase in pre-tax profit for the 52-week period ended 25 December 2009, driven by revenue growth across segments, "good" cost control and...

LONDON (Reuters) -- A former member of the Bosnian wartime presidency, Ejup Ganic, who was arrested in Britain last week on suspicion of war crimes, was released on bail by the High Court in London...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said that the Guardians Council's authority in terms of supervising elections and vetting candidates should not change.Khamenei reportedly made the...

All the familiar signs were there. Something was very wrong in Moscow. Black limousines sped to and from the Kremlin in the dead of night. Classical music replaced regular programming on television....

Palestinian territory's security. Paul Martin said he was arrested because of his work as a journalist and called his release, with the help of the British and South African governments, a ''great...

A security camera captured the moment a drunk woman intentionally drove into a man at a service station - flipping him over her car's bonnet and into the air, the Northern Territory News reported on...

The fire department says two firefighters have suffered minor injuries in a blaze at a private house in Brooklyn.Both firefighters were taken to Bellevue Hospital Thursday morning.The two-alarm fire...

QUITO, Mar 11, 2010 (IPS) - "This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." The words of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill after...

Joe Bastardi , with the AccuWeather.com Hurricane Center, said Wednesday that he predicts seven landfalls. Five will be hurricanes and two or three of the hurricanes will be major landfalls for the...

ATHENS (AP) — Greek police fired tear gas to disperse protesters throwing rocks and firebombs outside Parliament as more than 20,000 people marched through...

A British journalist detained in Gaza by Hamas was released without charge today, the Foreign Office said. Paul Martin was arrested on February 14 in a Gaza court where he was due to give...

But even if an announcement comes it may be some time before a clear picture emerges on who will lead Iraq and if current prime minister Nuri al-Maliki will stay in...

Jerusalem (CNN) -- British journalist Paul Martin was released without charge Thursday, a month after Hamas officials arrested him in Gaza, his lawyer and the British Foreign Office...

The alleged offenses took place between April 13, 2006, and February 25, 2010, "with the intention of committing acts of terrorism outside the U.K. or assisting another to commit such...

US Vice-President Joe Biden says there must be no delay in resuming Mid-East peace talks, despite a row over Israeli plans for new homes in East Jerusalem.Mr Biden repeated his criticism of the...

A murderer who stabbed and chopped up a salesman then dumped his body parts is refusing to give details of his other victims, police have said.Stephen Marshall, 38, was jailed for life in February...

A Dundee teacher convicted of assaulting two pupils has won an appeal against his sentence.Michael Barile, 52, was admonished after being found guilty following a trial at Dundee Sheriff Court in...

A man who stabbed his close friend in the heart twice has been jailed for life at Cardiff Crown Court.John Austin Chivers, 30, attacked Paul Jones with a kitchen knife after he was challenged for...

The Tyrone Crystal factory near Dungannon is to close with the loss of 31 jobs. The company has said it will be entering "an orderly winding down period of its factory processes". It had...

Afghanistan does not want other countries' "proxy wars" fought on its soil, President Hamid Karzai has said.He was speaking following talks with Pakistani leaders in Islamabad, and a day...

Take That star Mark Owen has said he is "deeply sorry" after admitting he cheated on his partner of five years, before they married in 2009.Owen, 38, told the Sun newspaper he had been...

Paul Martin is being tranferred to Israel to be reunited with his family after spending nearly a month in prison. Martin is the first Western journalist to ever be arrested...

Online Dating Scammers Using Stolen Images (AP) Information on 15,000 HSBC customers with Swiss accounts has been stolen, the British bank said Thursday, potentially exposing foreign clients to...

GMAC Gets $3.8B More From Government (AP) The Treasury Department sank billions into auto finance giant GMAC Inc. without an exit strategy or proof the company was viable - a decision that could cost...

Israel's Decision About More Than Housing (AP) Vice President Joe Biden is wrapping up a trip to Israel with warm words of praise for the Jewish state, saying the U.S. has "no better friend." But...

DNA Key in Sex Case Vs. Roethlisberger? (CBS) Ben Roethlisberger admitted to police he had sexual contact with a woman accusing him of sexual assault at an Atlanta-area nightclub Friday night, but...

Officials believe a skull found in woods behind a motel in the far Northeast belongs to a woman.Investigators hope some upper teeth still in the skull will help the Medical Examiner's office identify...

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden called today for no delay in resuming Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. Speaking in Tel Aviv, he also called peace with the Palestinianians "profoundly" in the...

In the wake of the UN Human Rights Council's recent session on Iran, RFE/RL's Radio Farda correspondent Javad Kouroshy asked Manfred Nowak, the UN's special rapporteur on torture, about his attempts...

KEMEROVO, Russia -- Russia's first plant to produce synthetic fuel will be built in the central Kemerovo Oblast, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports.Kemerovo Governor Aman Tuleyev told journalists that...

DUSHANBE -- Tajik President Emomali Rahmon has appointed veteran economist Matlubkhon Davlatov to head the presidential office, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reports.Davlatov, 60, had taught economics at...

The Washington Post's Style section highlighted the "Voices From Afghanistan" exhibit at the Library of Congress, which showcases some of the thousands of handwritten scrolls and letters sent in by...

The Washington Post's Style section highlighted the "Voices From Afghanistan" exhibit at the Library of Congress, which showcases some of the thousands of handwritten scrolls and letters sent in by...

A woman suspected of being the hit and run driver who mowed down two pedestrians in Brooklyn -- including an aide to Mayor Bloomberg -- was apparently telling the truth when she said her sister did...

Nuri Kamal al-Maliki ’s coalition was likely to win a plurality in an exceedingly close race. But even as the preliminary results were about to be broadcast to the public, a coalition of...