With official visits overlapping in Afghanistan, Iran's outspoken president and the US defence secretary have accused each other of interfering in local...

A state legislator in New York wants salt banned from pre-packaged and restaurant...

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...

A disgraced Lower Manhattan youth minister -- already charged with repeatedly raping and seducing a 12-year-old girl -- has been re-indicted for sex assaults against three new girl victims, all in...

The wife and daughter of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) were taken to a DC-area hospital Thursday after being involved in a car accident, the Washington Post reported. Reid’s wife,...

The Israel Air Force successfully bombed two targets in the southern Gaza Strip - a weapon manufacturing facility in and an arms smuggling tunnel on the Rafah border - in a joint IDF-ISA operation...

WASHINGTON - Releasing its annual report on the state of human rights around the world, the U.S. State Department Thursday said it was increasingly concerned about curbs imposed by foreign...

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 11, 2010 (IPS) - Sri Lanka, which won a grueling decades-long battle against one of the world's most ferocious terrorist organisations last May, has scored a diplomatic victory in...

GAZA CITY: Israeli aircraft hit two targets in southern Gaza Strip early Friday, wounding several people, the army and witnesses said. In the first strike, they blew up a metal workshop in the town...

STOCKHOLM: A Stockholm court Thursday allowed the extradition to Poland of Swedish former neo-Nazi leader Anders Hoegstroem to face trial for the theft of a sign from the one-time Auschwitz death...

A Palestinian man examines a building damaged following an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, unrelated to the charges laid over the 2009 incident. Photo /...

LONDON - Four British politicians have pleaded not guilty to involvement in a fraudulent expenses scam. The three governing Labour Party MPs and a member of the House of Lords are accused of using...

WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama has announced which groups will get the US$1.4 million he received for winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Obama said on Thursday that US$250,000 will go to Fisher...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., wrote a letter to his Republican counterparts describing the path ahead for the health care...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon said Thursday the cost to build its next-generation fighter jet has doubled to as much as $113 million per plane since...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted unanimously Thursday to impeach a U.S. district judge from Louisiana, who lawmakers said avoided likely criminal charges related to alleged payoffs in part...

"Our investigation found that Judge Porteous participated in a pattern of corrupt conduct for years," said U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-California, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee...

Washington (CNN) -- Public schools in Western states can continue teacher-led reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance, after a federal court ruled against a group of atheist...

(CNN) -- A Mississippi high school faces a lawsuit over its decision to cancel its prom rather than allow a lesbian high school student attend with her...

Turkey has withdrawn its ambassador to Sweden after the parliament voted narrowly to describe as genocide the killing of Armenians in World War I.The Turkish government condemned the resolution,...

download Flash from the Adobe download website. The police, who were expecting crowd trouble, had deployed 1,500 officers, four tanks and several police trucks to manage the event. Some...

A SENIOR cardinal has called for priestly celibacy to be re-examined in the light of sex scandals sweeping the Roman Catholic...

A TOP media rights watchdog has listed Australia along with Iran and North Korea in a report on countries that pose a threat of internet...

DETROIT/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Unprecedented discounts after a series of damaging recalls boosted Toyota Motor Corp's U.S. sales in early March, as U.S. regulators weighed new auto safety...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States boosted its investigation of tax and other financial crimes by about 10 percent last year, tax authorities reported on Thursday, amid an increased push to...

(Reuters) - The Guantanamo Bay detainee accused of helping plan the 2002 bombings in the Indonesian resort area of Bali that killed more than 200 people on Thursday revived his legal bid to be...

President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Barack Obama laughs after receiving his medal and diploma from Nobel committee chairman Thorbjorn Jagland at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony at City Hall in...

(AP) U.S. highway deaths have fallen to their lowest levels since the 1950s, as more motorists bought into buckling up and embraced safety innovations. A sour economy that dampened traveling...

After more than a year of passionate and substantive debate, the fate of the Democrats' health care reform package may rest largely on technicalities. Senate Republican sources say the Senate...

Oh, they aren't pacifists. They still play with an edge, still are the NHL's most penalized team. But since Peter Laviolette became their coach in early December, the Flyers are playing with more...

Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust, which owns eight of the region's most visible shopping malls - such as the newly renovated Cherry Hill and Plymouth Meeting - announced today that it has...

NEW YORK - Lazar Hayward gave Marquette the lead for good with a 3-pointer with 1:51 to play, then added the clinching free throws with 3.2 seconds left, and the Golden Eagles went on to another...

A former Bucks County high school teacher who had a five-month sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student - with the apparent knowledge of his peers - was sent to prison yesterday. Robert C....

Bottles of generic versions of Vicodin and Valium were found in dead teen actor Corey Haim's apartment, and all of them had been prescribed by the same doctor just days earlier, according to a...

A documentary about the rise and fall of Eliot Spitzer will be shown at the Tribeca Film Festival.The festival unveiled part of its lineup Wednesday.The work-in-progress film about the former New...

The State Prosecutor's Office appealed Thursday to the Haifa District Court to dismiss outright the civil suit filed by U.S. activist Rachel Corrie's family against the Defense Ministry for...

The European parliament on Thursday called, by a large majority, for the immediate release of IDF soldier Gilad Schalit, who has been held captive by Hamas in Gaza since June 2005.The move came just...

JOS, Nigeria: Dressed in black and wielding wooden crosses, thousands of women marched in a Nigerian city on Thursday to express grief at a new bout of sectarian carnage and anger at the failure to...

WASHINGTON: The United States on Thursday accused China and Iran of worsening human rights abuses as it raised the alarm about growing anti-Semitism worldwide and discrimination of Muslims in Europe....

But the Keplero high school vowed Thursday to go ahead with its experiment, billed as the first in the capital. While it's a relative novelty for Italy, schools in several other European countries...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio State janitor who shot two supervisors in a campus maintenance shop before killing himself left behind a brief handwritten note directed to a woman named Donna that...

Former detective says he helped compile false report of police shooting Jeffrey Lehrmann could face up to three years in prison Another ex-officer, Michael Lohman, has pleaded guilty to obstruction...