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...

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...

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...

Study Abroad with Al-Qaeda " - David Case on Theo Padnos, an American writer who pretended he was a Muslim and settled himself into Yemen’s radical mosque sceneRFE/RL in the Media#...

KYIV (Reuters) -- Ukrainian parliamentary deputies assembled today for a session which appeared set to announce a new ruling coalition to avoid snap elections and tackle a deep economic crisis.The...

WASHINGTON -- Ten extraordinary women have been recognized by the U.S. State Department in a ceremony in Washington.U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appeared alongside first lady Michelle...

This daring diver went face to snout with the jaws of death. The diver, who had only his cage separating him from the great white shark, got a scary close-up look at the killer creature's serrated...

My credit-card company hung up the phone on me recently. I know, you think that I am really scrounging for a column. But stick with me and you might find this amusing. I'll even teach you how to be...

Uncle Sam may finally be getting out of the car business. The government's former car czar, Steven Rattner, said yesterday that the US Treasury, which has big stakes in General Motors and Chrysler...

Debt-plagued Greece faces a new wave of labor discontent against painful spending cuts, with a nationwide strike Thursday closing hospitals and schools while stopping all flights and most public...

New York magazine and The New Yorker dominated this year's nominations for the National Magazine Awards with 10 apiece, followed by National Geographic with seven. Each is up for a coveted general...

The Catalan culture minister says that only about 3 percent of all movies are in Catalan, like “The Liceu Bomb.” That prompted 576 of the 790 movie houses in Catalonia, a region slightly...

Elio Leoni-Sceti's sudden decision to quit as EMI CEO was driven partly by a lack of support for his strategic plan for the label and his not wanting to be the fall guy should that plan fail to...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will not enter indirect peace talks with Israel as planned, Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa said overnight Wednesday, due to Israel's approval...

Shrink BRISBANE - Flight attendants and half a dozen passengers became sick on a Jetstar flight in Queensland when a chemical smell wafted through the plane. Jetstar spokesman Simon Westaway said...

Lawsuits could cost Toyota $3B-plus NEW YORK - Reports of sudden acceleration in the Toyota Prius have spiked across the country. But that doesn't mean there's an epidemic of bad gas pedals in the...

SANTIAGO, Chile - President Michelle Bachelet leaves office Thursday with a chunk of her country in ruins - and her popularity in the clouds. Despite complaints that aid was slow to reach the...

JACKSON, Miss. - A school decided Wednesday not to host a prom dance after a lesbian student demanded she be able to attend with her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo. The Mississippi school...

A "report card" for the four Welsh police forces which grades the different areas of their work will be available to the public to view online.Examinations by HM Inspectorate of...

A man and a woman have been rescued from a first floor flat in north Belfast which was destroyed in a fire.Police and the Fire Service are investigating the cause of the blaze in the Ballysillan Road...

Japan's economy grew by less than first estimated in the final quarter of 2009, revised figures have shown.The Cabinet Office said the economy expanded by 0.9% between October and December of last...

The minister says the 5-year-old boy is safe and "in very good health". Senior Pakistani police have told Sky News that a number of arrests have been made, including one woman. The authorities are...

US lawyers are seeking billions of dollars from Toyota to compensate the millions of people who saw the value of their vehicles drop in the wake of a series of mass safety...

Citi Offers "Foreclosure Alternatives" (AP) The foreclosure crisis isn't over, but the pace of growth may finally be slowing down. RealtyTrac Inc. said Thursday that the number of U.S. households...

(RTTNews) - Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration announced that an ongoing review of the safety of oral bisphosphonate drugs has found no link between the drug use and a risk of thigh...

The Indian Point nuclear power plant is safe. So says the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which noted that the facility last year "operated in a manner that preserved public health and safety and...

Last week, President Obama's advisers told reporters that they'd soon recommend that the president propose a "deal" with Congress on the Guantanamo Bay detainees. Obama would drop his insistence that...

Congratulations to Adam Brodsky for having the guts to say what needs to be said ("Hike MTA Fares Now," PostOpinion, March 8). I was always of the opinion that taking the bus or subway is one of the...

'We allow the insurance indus try to run wild in this coun try," President Obama declared on Monday. "We can't have a system that works better for the insurance companies than it does for the...

I think both sides are wrong. They both assume that there exists some optimum course that will produce happy results. But sometimes in politics no course leads to success. Disaster lies ahead...

MOSCOW: Jordan's King Abdullah II will discuss arms contracts and the Middle East peace process with Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev Thursday, news agencies reported. "The situation in the Middle...

WASHINGTON - On Christmas Day, a passenger on a Northwest Airlines flight bound for Detroit tried to blow up the plane with plastic explosives in his underwear. He failed, yet the very attempt shook...

The Hump Restaurant is seen in Santa Monica, Calif., Wednesday, March 10, 2010. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Reed Saxon) LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors filed charges Wednesday against a sushi chef and a...

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou addresses the media after a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the chancellery in Berlin, Friday, March 5, 2010. Papandreou met with Merkel on...

Three Labour MPs and a Conservative peer are due in court later to face charges in relation to their Parliamentary expenses.Jim Devine, Elliot Morley and David Chaytor, along with Lord Hanningfield,...

Election laws announced by Burma's military rulers have provoked a storm of condemnation.A United States State Department spokesman, Philip Crowley, said it made a mockery of the democratic process....

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has arrived in India for talks expected to focus on arms and energy contracts.The two sides are due to sign two deals worth over $10bn in defence and civilian...

Sex abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Church are proof that that "the Devil is at work inside the Vatican", according to the Holy See's chief...

A MAN jailed for a crash of his 1996 Toyota Camry that killed three people is seeking a new trial in light of Toyota's recent...

By Stefano Ambrogi London - Two women who were repeatedly raped and violently abused by their father, bearing him seven children over 25 years, were given a formal apology by child protection...

By Crispian Balmer Paris - Former supermodel Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has said her husband, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, would never cheat on her and has described their love story as a "real...