In the third terrorist attack in two days, a Pakistani court has been targeted by a suicide bomber leaving at least ten...

US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, has called the timing of the announcement by Isreal of new construction in East Jerusalem...

US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejects challenge brought by doctor against religious references on currency and in the pledge of...

The Pope has defended celibacy as a commitment to God, following increasing allegations of sexual...

Almost Free Warehouse, a chain of stores in Israel, hopes to benefit from the media storm surrounding the Dubai assasination with a parody...

11-year-old Marcelas Owens takes his late mother's place campaigning for healthcare reform on steps of Capital...

Former astronauts who landed on the moon in the hey-day of lunar missions have voiced their concern at President Obama's decision to move back further...

British Airways cabin crew will go on strike for three days from the 20th of March and four days from the 27th of March, says Unite, the union representing...

A teacher in Alaska, whose body was found by snowmobilers, was likely to have been attacked by wolves, according to the State Medical...

Twin suicide bombings in the Pakistani city of Lahore have killed and wounded scores of...

A woman and her husband have been sentenced following rape of eight-year-old...

REYNOSA, Mexico — The big philosophical question in this gritty border town does not concern trees falling in the forest but bodies falling on the concrete: Does a shootout actually happen if...

Vatican spoke out on Saturday to protect the pope against what it called an aggressive campaign against him in his native Germany. At the same time, a high-ranking Vatican official overseeing...

AMMAN, Jordan — Muhannad Haddad grew up here, went to school here, got a job in a bank here and traveled to foreign countries with a passport from here. Then one day the authorities said he was...

CARACAS, Venezuela — The shadowy underworld of Basque exiles in this city is coming under sharp scrutiny after recent arrests in Europe and an indictment this month from one of Spain’s...

WASHINGTON : The fierce and fateful battle over health care reform has forced President Barack Obama to delay his departure on a trip to Indonesia and Australia by three days, to March 21. Obama...

DOHA - The only UN body with the power to ban trade in endangered animals and plants began a triennial meeting in Doha on Saturday with Atlantic bluefin tuna, African elephants and polar bears on the...

Washington (CNN) -- Is the Coffee Party on the scale of the Tea Party movement? Saturday is the first big test in attempting to answer that...

Washington (CNN) -- As House Democratic leaders advised their members Friday to prepare for a legislative battle over health care that could stretch through next weekend, four additional...

The explosions were near a hotel, a prison, a mosque and at an crossroads in the centre of Kandahar, deputy provincial police chief Mohammad Shad Farooqi said. There is no word yet on whether or not...

Kate Garraway, Katy Brand and Debra Stephenson are set for the final of the celebrity competition Let's Dance later in aid of Sports Relief.There had been doubt over GMTV's Garraway taking part in...

Pristina - A vehicle used by the European Union's law enforcement mission in Kosovo (EULEX) was attacked and damaged near the border with Serbia early Saturday, Kosovo police said. A police...

Tehran - An Iranian court has sentenced a top female reformist arrested after last year's election dispute to three years in jail for plotting to harm national security, her lawyer said on Saturday. ...

Jerusalem - Groups of young Palestinians rioted Saturday in the Old City of Jerusalem and the West bank after Israeli police closed both areas to devout Muslims seeking to go to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in...

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan rowed back on Saturday from a total ban on media broadcasts of "disturbing" images from insurgent attacks or live pictures of security...

Swedish Cartoonist: Murder Plot "Low-Tech" (CBS/AP) A Colorado woman has been detained in Ireland in connection with an alleged plot to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist whose sketch offended many...

ATLANTIC CITY - Around the Temple basketball team, especially at tournament time, even after all of these years, a dog-eared copy of the Chaney-English Dictionary still earns its place in the...

ORLANDO - The ambulance crew that responded after Tiger Woods crashed his SUV would not allow his wife to ride with him to the hospital because they suspected domestic violence, documents released...

Police and coroner's officials roll from a house in Wayne the body of Richard Porter, who was found stabbed to death there. His missing SUV figured in a later incident in Kensington that hurt a...

By Erica Werner ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) -- Newly arrived Republican Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts accused President Barack Obama and Democrats on Saturday of a "bitter, destructive and...

GUANGZHOU, China -- Factory worker Chen Qinghai frowned as he looked at a tall bulletin board full of help-wanted notices from companies making everything from photocopiers and DVD drives to mobile...

European Union police in Kosovo were fired upon early today in a northern area of the country near the border with Serbia. Attackers fired shots at a vehicle and fired an explosive device at an EU...

RYAZAN, Russia -- Police in the western Russian city of Ryazan have confiscated part of the print run of a special edition of the newspaper "Vechernyaya Ryazan," RFE/RL's Russian Service...

ALMATY -- At least 35 people have been killed and thousands evacuated from the southeastern Kazakh town of Qyzylaghash and nearby villages after floodwaters destroyed two dams in the area, RFE/RL's...

Some of the heroes of communist days past are featured at the Club PRL in Wroclaw, Poland. From left, Boleslaw Bierut, a Polish leader; Stalin, Mao and...

The top three finishers from the qualifying session for the Bahrain Grand Prix, Felipe Massa, left, Sebastian Vettel, center, and Fernando Alonso. The first qualifying session of the Formula One...

Shrink Trash and sewage are piling up at the squalid tent camps that hundreds of thousands have called home since Haiti's devastating earthquake - and with torrential rains expected any day,...

Investigators are confronted with a series of nagging questions as they try to unravel the case of a California real estate agent who said his Toyota Prius turned into a runaway death trap after the...

As the basset hounds made their way on to the green carpet at Crufts on Friday, a tangible air of excitement swept across the crowd of spectators. With their floppy ears, droopy eyes and trademark...

Wouldn't you know it? Just as the popular press is getting up to speed with the idea older women enjoy sex - a notion so scary some have been dubbed "cougars" - a new piece of research suggests men...

His name is Billy Geerhart, he's 8 years old and he lives in Los Angeles. If you happen to be rich, famous and influential, he may have sent you a cute handwritten letter, earnestly seeking expert...

It wasn't quite Frost vs Nixon. But when Britain's most distinguished television interviewer, Sir David Frost, interrogated Helen Clark yesterday, she had an admission of her own. While Nixon...

The latest buzz word in the clubby world of British politics is "hung Parliament". It means an election so close that no party receives more than half the seats in the House of Commons, the lower...

Prosecutors in Orange County, California, filed a lawsuit against Toyota, accusing the company of knowingly selling hundreds of thousands of vehicles with acceleration defects. District Attorney...

Golf clubs in hands or not, the kids of South Park are ready to take on Tiger Woods. Creators of the Comedy Central cartoon have long since proven that no subject is sacred to them. So for the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Obama is promising parents and their kids that with his administration's help they will have better teachers in improved schools so U.S. students can make up for...

Sept. 11, 2001 , terrorist attack showed some impaired heart function on ultrasound tests. The study was released Saturday at an American College of Cardiology...

About 1,000 people have joined an anti-nuclear protest in Edinburgh calling for the scrapping of Trident.Organisers of the Cut Trident Not Jobs march said money spent on the nuclear weapons system...

SAARISELKA, Finland (Reuters) - The foreign ministers of Turkey and Sweden condemned on Saturday a vote in the Swedish parliament that defined the early 20th-century killing of Armenians by Ottoman...

Supporters of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra cheer to speech from their leader on the stage during an anti-government rally in Bangkok, Thailand Saturday, March 13,...