UPDATED: At least 38 dead in Russian subway bombings
The death roll is rising after a pair of suicide bombings on the world's second-busiest subway system.
The death roll is rising after a pair of suicide bombings on the world's second-busiest subway system.
Iraq's Prime Minister says he does not accept election results showing his secular challenger winning more seats in the country's parliamentary election.
A news report says a number of South Korean sailors died when their military ship sank off an island not far from North Korea.
Designers in Britain are working to build a better hospital gown.
A German court has convicted and sentenced members of a group dubbed the “Gang of Retirees” to jail for kidnapping their financial adviser and forcing him to transfer money into their bank accounts.
A major storm has caused widespread flooding, collapsed roofs and power cuts to 150,000 customers in the western Australian city of Perth.
Former President Bill Clinton says he and former President George W. Bush will work to make the most of the huge global outpouring of support for earthquake-devastated Haiti.
The family of a Boston man detained in North Korea is said to be “praying for his speedy return home.”
The Inter-American Development Bank says it has agreed to forgive $479 million in debt owed by quake-ravaged Haiti.
A spokesman for Afghan President Hamid Karzai says Karzai has met with representatives of a major insurgent group with links to the Taliban.
Google Inc. will shift its search engine for China off the mainland and maintain other operations in the country. It's an attempt to balance its stance against censorship with its desire to profit from an explosively growing Internet market.
A string of steamy text messages has landed an Indian couple in a Dubai jail.
Dozens of Muscovites have been evacuated after maintenance workers uncovered hundreds of World War II-era artillery shells beneath a road.
Somali pirates searching for a high-seas victim picked the wrong vessel to hijack.
A 5-year-old British boy has been released unharmed, two weeks after he was kidnapped from his grandparents' house in central Pakistan.
Chile's government now says 700 people were killed by last month's magnitude 8.8 earthquake and tsunami. And the ground continues to shake.
A Swiss watchmaker is hoping to raise a stink with an expensive timepiece that eschews the trade's standard gold, diamond or titanium fittings for a more earthy substance – dinosaur dung.
Afghan officials say the Afghan government was holding secret talks with the Taliban's No. 2 when he was captured last month in Pakistan.
Somalia's government has signed an agreement with a powerful militia that offers high-level militants senior government positions in return for their military support during a long-planned offensive against an Islamist insurgency.
Madagascar's disaster officials say at least 36 people have died and more than 38,000 were made homeless by Tropical Storm Hubert.
Chile hasn’t been able to put aside its earthquake fears as it inaugurates a new president.
Turkey's leaders are promising to build quake-proof homes, in the aftermath of an earthquake that shattered mud-brick homes in the eastern part of the country.
Iran's official news agency reports a trial has begun of 12 suspects in the deaths of three anti-government protesters tortured in prison in the postelection turmoil.
The Earth really did move during the massive Chile quake: researchers say cities and islands physically shifted west a bit.
An amazing find in the Baltic Sea.
