US citizen David Headley has pleaded guilty to finding the targets for the 2008 attacks on the Indian city of...

A retired US general has said homosexuality in the Dutch armed forces was partly responsible for failing to prevent the 1995 genocide in Srebrenica during the Bosnian...

US President Barack Obama has cancelled forthcoming trips to Indonesia and Australia so he can stay home to oversee controversial healthcare...

US and Russian negotiations for a strategic arms reduction treaty are said to be going well, with foreign policy chiefs from both countries meeting in...

Zimbabwe's dual leadership has agreed with South African president, Jacob Zuma, that measures will have to be taken in order to save the fragile...

A married couple in India has been arrested for allegedly killing five young...

At least 25 people have been killed in a bus crash in...

The head of the US Federal Reserve has partially opposed president Barack Obama's new rules to regulate financial...

The head of the Iranian atomic energy agency, Ali Akbar Salehi, has told local television the country will make concessions to the West by exchanging Tehran's low-grade uranium for highly enriched uranium that it needs for its medical...

US drone strikes have killed at least 10 militants in...

The Palestinian Authority has closed down the only Christian TV broadcaster in the...

A painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, which was once withdrawn from sale due to links with Nazis, is to be sold by its current owner, composer Andrew Lloyd...

A scientific discovery has shown early humans were living on the Indonesian island of Flores many years before first...

The acting Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has dismissed his...

Aid is being sent to the Fiji islands which have been hard hit by Cyclone...

The French government has blamed the Basque terror organisation ETA for the killing of a French police officer on...

The court said there was not enough evidence to determine whether the man and the woman had actually had an affair, which could have brought a harsher...

Prime Minister George Papandreou of Greece on Thursday in Brussels. He said he wanted to “borrow on reasonable terms.” Turning to the I.M.F. would represent a new and potentially humiliating...

U.S. President Barack Obama's popularity may be declining in American public opinion, but a sweeping majority of Israelis think his treatment of this country is friendly and fair, according to a...

The tiny Islamist faction Ansar al-Sunna took responsibility for the Qassam rocket attack that took the life of a Thai farm worker yesterday in Netiv Ha'asara. Like Hamas, Israel has no interest in...

Shrink LOS ANGELES - A former porn actress has released sexually graphic text messages that she says prove her affair with Tiger Woods, and she says she has more potentially embarrassing information...

Barack Obama impersonator and Indonesian photographer Ilham Anas, right, and former Obama teacher Effendi, pose before a statue of a 10 year-old Obama at the government-run SDN Menteng 1 school (also...

A vaccine that protects against cervical cancer has caused few serious side effects, a new study says. Except for problems such as fainting, the risk of becoming ill after vaccination is about the...

A Pennsylvania woman who called herself "Jihad Jane" pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges of providing material support to terrorists and conspiring to kill in a foreign country. Colleen LaRose...

Belgium has been attempting to smooth over its strained relations with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), but the latest effort by the Defence minister has badly backfired. There has been an...

As traditional dancers shake their bodies beside the Congo River in celebration of a 40-year-old museum opening to its public for the first time, one brooding man does not budge at all. A...

Wearing a green uniform designed by Karl Lagerfeld and a sword engraved with her Auschwitz tattoo number, Simone Veil, 82, was enthroned as one of the French immortals yesterday. The survivor of...

The reported mastermind of a disastrous currency reform that wiped out the savings of impoverished North Koreans and caused chaos and starvation has been executed in what appears to be a desperate...

The trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna will continue unchecked after the rejection yesterday of a proposed fishing ban that had been described by conservationists as the only way to save the critically...

An immigrant Thai farm worker was killed in Israel yesterday by a rocket fired from Gaza as the EU's foreign policy chief, Baroness Ashton, made a rare high-profile visit to the territory. Baroness...

With his face gazing from posters celebrating the 600th anniversary of the founding of this historic city, Narendra Modi – chief minister of the Indian state of Gujarat – likes to present...

Roman Polanski's lawyers have filed an appeal over alleged judicial misconduct in his 1970s child sex trial in the US.The appeal cites new evidence that a prosecutor was aware of misconduct by the...

Matt Smith's debut in the new series of Doctor Who has had its world premiere, with Smith saying he is keen to stay in the role for a long time.In The Eleventh Hour, the newly-regenerated 11th Doctor...

Middle East diplomatic efforts are being stepped up after a rocket fired from Gaza killed a farm worker in Israel during a visit to the region by the EU's foreign policy...

PORN star Joslyn James, one of Tiger Woods' alleged mistresses, has set up a website featuring X-rated text messages she claims were sent to her by the...

Hours before the official verdict at a Normandy court, Celine Lesage, 38, had pleaded guilty to killing them. "Yes, I killed the babies," she said under questioning.Bursting into tears, she added: "I...

David Christopher Cotton, dressed as a leprechaun, is seen robbing the First State Bank in Gallatin, Tennessee. he later died in a polic shootout. Picture:...

Washington - The World Bank on Thursday announced a $65-million grant for Haiti aimed at rebuilding its infrastructure to get the government back on its feet after January's powerful earthquake. ...

By Jon Hurdle Philadelphia - A Pennsylvania woman who called herself "Jihad Jane" on Thursday pleaded not guilty to charges of providing material support to terrorists and conspiring to kill in a...

Paris - A court in Normandy on Thursday convicted a 38-year-old woman of killing six of her newborn babies - a deed she acknowledged - and sentenced her to 15 years in prison. Hours before the...

Wellington - An extensive aerial search for a South African yachtsman missing for a week on a voyage up the east coast of New Zealand's North Island was called off Friday, after no trace of him was...

Washington - United States President Barack Obama will host Mexican President Felipe Calderon for a state dinner in May, in recognition of their "deep ties and strong relationship", the White House...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional budget analysts said on Thursday a broad healthcare overhaul would cut the U.S. deficit over 10 years and sharply expand insurance coverage, boosting the momentum...

JERUSALEM/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Israel tried to defuse a dispute with the United States on Friday over plans to expand settlements, saying it would propose "confidence-building" steps to the...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, under pressure to keep a campaign promise to revamp U.S. immigration policy, embraced a "promising, bipartisan framework" on Thursday offered by two...

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Retail gasoline prices rose on Thursday on an expected increase in demand and as more expensive spring and summer blends of gasoline make their way to the...

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Republican congressional candidate and former U.S. Attorney Patrick Meehan today asked Commonwealth Court to dismiss a challenge to his nominating petitions, saying that he was never served with a...

Upper Darby police were investigating the killing of a Philadelphia man who was shot early Thursday in a bar that has been the subject of scores of complaints. Tyrik Richardson, 24, was found in the...