12 killed on day Obama outlines new mission
Bombings and drive-by shootings in Iraq have killed 12 people today.
Bombings and drive-by shootings in Iraq have killed 12 people today.
Russia’s Emergencies Ministry says a passenger plane has crashed near a city in northern Siberia, killing 15 people aboard.
The UAE's telecom regulator says Blackberry e-mail, messaging and Web browsing services will be blocked for foreign visitors too.
The United States has assured international negotiators it remains committed to reducing carbon emissions over the next 10 years, despite the collapse of efforts to legislate a climate bill.
Officials in Pakistan say no one survived the crash of an airliner today near the capital, Islamabad.
BP Plc says Tony Hayward will step down as Chief Executive Officer from Oct. 1, to be succeeded by American Robert Dudley.
A yachter in South Africa says her trip off the country's picturesque southwestern coast was wrecked by an unexpected whack from a whale.
Uganda's government is defending the forced repatriation of 1,700 Rwandan refugees, action that the U.N. Refugee Agency has condemned.
The U.S. and South Korean defense chiefs say they will hold military exercises starting Sunday as part of efforts to sharpen their readiness against North Korean aggression.
A U.S.-born, Al-Qaida-linked cleric has issued an English-language address to the American people warning them that President Barack Obama will mire U.S. forces in Yemen just as Afghanistan.
Researchers are reporting a breakthrough against aids. A vaginal gel containing an AIDS drug cut in half a woman's chances of getting HIV from an infected partner.
Italian police have recovered hundreds of ancient artifacts in their latest effort against looted art, and chosen a unique setting to display them: The Colosseum.
The Taliban say the Afghan soldier who attacked Coalition Allies and killed three British troops is now being sheltered by insurgents.
A spokesman for the Somali militant group Al-Shabab is claiming responsibility for the twin bombings in Uganda that killed 74 people.
Track and Field's ruling body has cleared world champion runner Caster Semenya to return to her sport immediately.
The front-running candidate for Governor in northern Tamaulipas state has been shot to death along with four other people.
Electoral officials in Guinea say they are counting votes from the West African country’s first free election since independence more than half a century ago.
NATO says a joint Afghan-international force killed a Taliban commander and several armed individuals in Kandahar overnight. However, residents say the troops killed eight civilians, including two elderly men.
China says that at least 150 people have been trapped in a landslide caused by heavy rains in the southwest of the country.
Iceland’s Prime Minister has married her partner under a new law legalizing same-sex marriage in the country.
Britain's Treasury Chief George Osborne has announced the toughest cuts to public spending in decades and new tax rises in an emergency budget aimed at sharply reducing the country's record debts.
A United Nations report says Peru is edging closer to Colombia as the world's leading producer of coca, the raw material of cocaine.
Embattled Gen. Stanley McChrystal may be in trouble with his civilian bosses in Washington for a controversial interview, but he's getting support closer to the Afghan battlefield.
Judicial officials say a Saudi court has convicted four women and 11 men for mingling at a party and sentenced them to flogging and prison terms.
Top government officials now say at least 48 people died and more than 400 were injured when four train cars full of passengers fell into a ravine in Republic of Congo in central Africa.
