Two Thai soldiers have been hurt in grenade...

A New Zealand anti-whaling activist has been handed over to Japan for possible...

A powerful cyclone has hit Fiji creating fears of mass...

The Israeli prime minister was strongly rebuked on Friday by the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who angrily questioned him on Israel's refusal to back down on settlement...

Helicopter gunships belonging to Pakistan have pounded Taliban hideouts in the north-western tribal district, killing at least 13...

Drug violence in Western Mexico has led to the deaths of three people who worked within the walls of the US consulate in Ciudad...

Georgia’s president, Mikheil Saakashvili, has complimented a local television channel that sparked panic by broadcasting a drama which implied that the country was being...

A Christian maid has allegedly been burned alive to prevent her from reporting a rape in the Pakistani province of...

A candidate for governor in Atlanta, Georgia has been arrested for allegedly threatening singer Elton...

In a plan being devised by the UK government, the country’s House of Lords could be...

Israel appears surprised by a rebuke from the US administration about its new settlement...

By Thanyarat Doksone ASSOCIATED PRESS BANGKOK -- Thailand's prime minister, backed by a formidable military force, rejected an ultimatum to dissolve Parliament on Monday as tens of thousands of...

By Suspended Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas says he deserves to be punished for bringing guns into the locker room. Arenas told Esquire magazine that he wasn't using "longevity thinking"...

News ), the holding company for Home Bank , a Federally chartered savings bank headquartered in Lafayette, Louisiana, is all set to expand its operations with the FDIC-assisted acquisition of certain...

The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) has condemned the continuing imprisonment of Iranian journalist Emad Baghi and what it calls the "repressive measures employed...

KABUL (Reuters) -- The United Nations mission in Afghanistan is no longer keeping staff abroad as a security measure, after it evacuated hundreds of foreign workers following an attack last year, a...

Go to the Blog » The appearance also had the effect of proving he was alive. For days the political grapevine here was rife with rumors that Mr. Maliki, who is fighting for his political life as...

PITTSBURGH -- An Ohio woman claims in a lawsuit that a Pennsylvania plastic surgeon used the wrong kind of breast implants on her, then kept her knocked out longer than necessary and continued with...

Supersize me, please. A New Jersey woman who already weighs a whopping 600 pounds is on a mission to double her girth in a bid to become the world's fattest woman. Donna Simpson, 42, said she has her...

Colin Farrell and Robert Duvall are among those bringing films to the Tribeca Film Festival in New York.The annual festival announced the bulk of its lineup Monday.Making its U.S. premiere will be...

JENNER, Calif. -- Three California men are lucky to be alive after their car veered off a highway and rolled 120 feet down a coastal cliff.The California Highway Patrol says the Toyota Corolla veered...

In the name of the tens of thousands of people stuck in horrible traffic jams thanks to the visit of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden to Jerusalem, I can only hope that Brazilian President Lula da Silva...

Notwithstanding mounting tensions emanating from Jerusalem's Old City within fairly easy walking distance of Beit Hanassi, security for visiting Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva was not...

Police were on high alert in Jerusalem on Monday afternoon, ahead of the official rededication ceremony of the historic Hurva Synagogue in the Old City's Jewish quarter. Hundreds are expected to...

LILONGWE, Mar 15, 2010 (IPS) - At the age of 66, village headman Kamwala of Dedza district in central Malawi is starting to feel the effects of ageing. He gets tired easily and needs frequent naps...

A Hungarian Vizsla named Yogi has been awarded the top prize of best in show at Crufts dog show in Britain. Almost 22,000 dogs across 187 breeds were entered for best in show this year, said the...

Chinese authorities have ordered the closure of a lead ingot factory in the country's southwest after 94 people, including 88 children, in nearby villages were found to have lead poisoning. A further...

Shrink Thousands of people were last night bracing for a king-hit from one of two powerful cyclones roaring across the Pacific. Cyclone Tomas, a category-four storm, was bearing down on Fiji,...

Shrink Thailand's Prime Minister, backed by a formidable military force, last night rejected an ultimatum to dissolve Parliament as tens of thousands of red-shirted protesters vowed to continue...

Shrink Russia's Army mounted a massive invasion of Georgia yesterday, its planes bombed the capital Tbilisi, and President Mikheil Saakashvili was assassinated. None of this actually happened, but...

French voters scarred by the economic crisis dealt President Nicolas Sarkozy and his conservative leadership a stern blow yesterday by strongly favouring leftist candidates in regional elections,...

CANBERRA - The federal Government is coming under increasing pressure to reject the advice of its domestic spy agency and overturn a deportation order against a Muslim cleric. The Australian...

An Australian court has granted permission for a convicted child sex offender to have his two young daughters spend every other weekend with him, provided he places a lock on their bedroom door and...

SANTIAGO - A power failure plunged nearly the entire Chilean population into darkness yesterday, rattling a country already anxious after last month's 8.8-magnitude quake. The outage struck around...

Control Risks, which provides security for foreign companies in Iraq and the British Government, is poised to join the bidding war for Wall St's favourite detective agency, Kroll. The security firm,...

Shrink BELFAST - Given it will stretch to several million words, Lord Saville's report on Bloody Sunday is bound to contain surprises when it is finally published. The document will be handed to...

Bizarrely, New Zealand, whose priority has always been the conservation and protection of whales, is now considering supporting a deal which would see the ban on commercial whaling overturned in...

Is Britain heading towards a hung Parliament, and how would it work? Until the end of January opinion polls were saying that the Conservatives were heading for a decisive victory at the general...

Iraq's national elections were some distance removed from the type of poll associated with a smoothly functioning democracy. They were conducted amid an intimidating campaign of violence, and in the...

TAJI, Iraq (AP) — The U.S. military handed over control of a prison holding some 2,900 detainees to Iraqi authorities on Monday as the Americans move ahead with preparations for a full...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Defense Department official is under investigation for allegedly hiring private contractors to gather intelligence on suspected insurgents...

A Dutch political party formed by self-described pedophiles has voted to disband itself after failing for the second time to participate in national elections in June. The group, which...

Washington (CNN) -- The Obama administration plans to send a wide-ranging overhaul of the No Child Left Behind education law to Congress on Monday, arguing that the current legislation has pushed...

Suppose that the Western world had not intervened in 1949. Suppose the Israeli war of independence had been fought to the bitter end: Arab armies breaking apart and fleeing, commanders laying down...

GENEVA - Almost 170 million people have moved from the outdoors to at least the outhouse to defecate in what the United Nations is calling a major advance in global sanitation over the last two...

Driver James Sikes talks about his experiences in his Toyota Prius during a news conference held at Toyota of El Cajon Tuesday, March 9, 2010, in El Cajon, Calif. (AP/Denis...

John Edwards' mistress, Rielle Hunter, says she didn't want him to run for president and considered it "reckless" to stay in the race after his wife's cancer returned. Hunter said in an interview...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - An 11-year-old Malaysian girl was hospitalized in a state of shock after allegedly being abducted by a man who persuaded her parents to let him marry her, an official said...

David Beckham has arrived in Finland for surgery on the Achilles tendon injury which looks set to rule him out of this summer's World Cup.The 34-year-old midfielder was aiming to play in a fourth...