South Korea's Pyeongchang Awarded 2018 Winter Olympics
The South Korean city of Pyeongchang has been awarded the 2018 Winter Olympics after failing in two previous attempts.
The South Korean city of Pyeongchang has been awarded the 2018 Winter Olympics after failing in two previous attempts.
Scientists are presenting the strongest evidence yet U.N. Peacekeepers imported the cholera strain that’s killed more than 5,500 people in Haiti.
Canada's Prime Minister has unveiled a personal flag for Prince William for use while he's in Canada.
Ugandan officials say 22 students and a teacher died after lightning struck their school in the country's midwest.
Austria’s state TV is apologizing for broadcasting a 1930s Walt Disney cartoon critics say reinforces anti-Semitic stereotypes of the era.
The black Toyota SUV pulled up to the security checkpoint when 22-year-old Somali soldier Abdi Hassan said he ordered the driver to switch the headlights off.
An Army transport plane has taken off from a military airport in the Czech capital to take four rare wild horses to Mongolia as part of the Prague Zoo’s efforts to reintroduce the endangered Przewalski Horse to its native habitat.
President Barack Obama is telling Puerto Ricans he’s committed to their success and self-determination as he makes the first official presidential visit to the U.S. Island Territory in 50 years.
Two Libyan analysts say another member of Libyan Dictator Moammar Gadhafi’s regime has defected.
The operator of Japan’s damaged nuclear power plant says six workers who may have exceeded the government’s radiation exposure limit aren’t showing any immediate health problems, but that they’ll need long-term monitoring.
Clouds of ash from Chile's erupting volcano are again forcing cancellations of dozens of flights in countries from Brazil to Argentina.
Ratko Mladic has been placed in U.N. custody at a detention unit to await trial for genocide, 16 years after he was charged by the court for the killing of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the worst massacre of civilians in Europe since World War II.
Police have discovered a bar at prison in northern Mexico that served beer, tequila and vodka to inmates.
The U.S. man married to Peruvian Presidential Candidate Keiko Fujimori has acknowledged that his father pleaded guilty to U.S. tax evasion charges 11 years ago and received three years probation.
A senior Libyan official says he has no knowledge about the fate of an American journalist missing for more than nine weeks.
Egypt's official news agency says the Rafah border crossing with Gaza will be permanently opened for Palestinians on Saturday -- a move that will significantly ease a blockade of the impoverished territory.
A leaked government document shows Denmark plans to lay claim to the North Pole and other areas in the Arctic, where melting ice is uncovering new shipping routes, fishing grounds and drilling opportunities for oil and gas.
NATO and Afghan officials say joint operations in Eastern Afghanistan have killed at least 13 insurgents.
Pakistan's Army says a Yemeni national it describes as a "senior Al-Qaida operative" has been arrested in the city of Karachi.
Pakistan's Prime Minister is echoing President Barack Obama, telling Parliament Osama Bin Laden's death was "indeed justice done."
Soldiers have unearthed 11 more bodies from mass graves in northern Mexico, bringing the rapidly mounting toll from the month-long search to at least 168.
Al-Qaida's front group in Iraq is reaffirming its support for the terror network's second-in-command, Ayman Al-Zawahri, a week after U.S. commandos killed Osama Bin Laden.
A Ugandan Parliament Committee has held a second day of hearings on a controversial anti-gay bill that attracted international condemnation for its harsh penalties.
A port official in Ivory Coast says the world's largest cocoa producer is resuming exportation after a months-long political standoff.
Some of the first information gleaned from Osama Bin Laden's compound indicates Al-Qaida considered attacking U.S. trains, but U.S. officials say they have no recent intelligence indicating such a plot is active.
