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

The US Senate has adopted a draft bill to increase unemployment...

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...

Indonesian police have confirmed the deaths of three terrorists in raids outside the capital,...

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

In Myanmar, a new law may force the National League for Democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, out of the...

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

US Vice President Joe Biden has told the Israeli prime minister that the US condemns an Israeli plan to build hundreds of homes in disputed east...

The US State Department has apologised over comments made by a State Department official about Libyan leader Muammar...

China has been given direct access to the Sea of Japan for the first time since the 19th century, thanks to a lease deal with North...

A former television producer on the David Letterman show has admitted in a New York court that he tried to extract two million dollars from the famous television...

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Ted Starkey The Capitals moved a step closer to clinching their third straight Southeast Division title Wednesday night at Verizon Center, as Tomas Fleischmann's goal with 1:40 left in overtime gave...

News ) confirmed Wednesday that it has been approached by third parties about a possible acquisition of the company. The Franklin, Tennessee-based company also said it has formed a special committee...

Corporate Israel is starting to discover the hidden business potential of Israeli Arabs - largely virgin territory to most major companies, with the noteworthy exception of the cellular service...

THERMAL, California - They say crime doesn't pay. For one robber in California, it did - but not much. Authorities in Riverside County say a woman with a gun robbed 11 customers at a market and got...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Minorities make up nearly half the children born in the U.S., part of a historic trend in which minorities are expected to become the U.S. majority over the next 40...

Lawyer kept internal documents that he says could be damaging to Toyota Biller says he quit because of what he alleges were "criminal acts" by Toyota He said Toyota settled one lawsuit to...

Yangon, Myanmar (CNN) -- Myanmar's ruling junta announced Wednesday a new election law that disqualifies pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from participating in upcoming national...

(CNN) -- A Texas man who became enraged when a flight attendant refused to serve him alcohol and spent part of a flight locked in the lavatory has pleaded guilty to interfering with an airline flight...

Gordon Brown says the criticism he has received for visiting Afghanistan a day after giving evidence to the Iraq war inquiry is "incredibly unfair".The Conservatives said Saturday's trip...

The practice of ennobling people from outside Parliament in order to make them ministers should be "exceptional", a cross-party group of MPs has said.The Public Administration Committee...

Chilean tycoon Sebastian Pinera is due to be sworn in as president of the country, which was recently devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami.Mr Pinera not only faces the challenge of...

Sony has unveiled its contender to the market leading Nintendo Wii with its new motion-control video system called PlayStation Move.Details were revealed during the Game Developers Conference in San...

The Red Cross is facing a shortfall of $23.9m (£15.9m) for its programmes in Zimbabwe, which include home care for those infected by HIV. Hunger is impacting the efforts to provide anti-retroviral...

download Flash from the Adobe download website. Ms Bruni has faced questions about the marriage from the very beginning. She married the president three months after meeting him, but said it...

It's an action thriller starring Matt Damon and directed by Paul Greengrass, but Damon insists it is definitely not Bourne again. It was Brit Greengrass, of course, who worked with Damon on both The...

CARLA Bruni, the singer wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, has vouched for the fidelity of her husband after some media outlets reported internet gossip suggesting that their marriage was in...

76ers coach Eddie Jordan insisted tonight that his team was still, unequivocally, with him. A few hours later, Jordan and his players walked off the Wachovia Center court having been completely...

Most men don't go back to their primary care doctor after a specialist diagnoses prostate cancer. A new study raises questions that suggest maybe they should. None of the four main treatments for...

An armed man robbed a Family Dollar store in Aston tonight, making off with an undisclosed sum of cash.The assailant entered the store on the 3400 block of Concord Road around 8:42 p.m., brandishing...

News ) in a deal worth up to $6 billion, according to reports Wednesday. Devon will reportedly sell to BP its interests in the Gulf of Mexico, offshore Brazil and a stake in its Canadian energy...

Arab League chief Amr Moussa says Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas had told him he will not enter indirect talks with Israel. No immediate comment was available from Israeli or Palestinian...

Pakistan -- Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai (L) talking with his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari, during their meeting in Islamabad,...

Rusia - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (R) shakes hands with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) during their meeting in Moscow,...

In a room darkened to protect the paper, Israeli students on Tuesday inspected the manuscript of Albert Einstein’s development of the general theory of...

Pink Floyd is suing EMI over online royalty payments and the ability to sell single tracks in a bid to make sure the record label doesn't, to borrow a line from the band's song "Money," "grab [its]...

The staff at Bloomberg BusinessWeek is bracing for a sweeping restructuring that will see many of the magazine's editorial staff reassigned within Bloomberg LP, while around 30 people are slated to...

Don't believe Benjamin Netanyahu for one moment when he says he "never knew." The Jerusalem planning committee is only too aware of what the bosses want, and the government has decided to step up...

It is not easy to scare Simone Dinah Hartmann, but lately she has been fearing for her life. Although she resides in serene Vienna, Hartmann is not convinced the law enforcement officials in Austria...

Nearly half of Israel's high school students do not believe that Israeli-Arabs are entitled to the same rights as Jews in Israel, according to the results of a new survey released yesterday. The same...

BERLIN - Germany will pay $77 million in subsidies this year to aid needy Holocaust survivors worldwide. The decision is the end result of annual negotiations held in Berlin between the German...

The Foreign Ministry attacked the European Parliament’s endorsement on Wednesday night of the Goldstone Report, which has accused Israel of possible war crimes in Gaza.By a slim majority of just...

NEW YORK: Libya's UN envoy appealed to Switzerland Wednesday to rescind a "blacklist" of 188 Libyans, including leader Moamer Kadhafi, banned from entering Swiss territory over a festering diplomatic...

CAIRO: There should be no Israeli-Palestinian talks, direct or indirect, unless Israel halts plans to build 1,600 settler homes in annexed east Jerusalem, the Arab League said Wednesday. Arab League...