US Defense Secretary Robert Gates is in the south of Afghanistan after touching down on...

Miami police swooped on the main airport on Friday when screeners detected a suspicious article in a checked...

25 or more people have died in a gunfight between Mexican soldiers and suspected drug gang members near the northern Mexican city of...

Israeli president Benjamin Netanyahu has said it is time to finalize a deal on the Middle East peace...

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai condemned the attack which killed 10 parliamentary campaign workers and injured two others including a...

A US general has revealed the Taliban in Afghanistan are very short of money with their drug labs and supply routes under pressure from US...

The relief effort in the area hit by floods in Pakistan may be helped by a new request for Muslims to tithe for the aid...

A new book written by famous British physicist, Stephen Hawking, claims that God did not create the universe and the "big bang" was an inevitable consequence of the laws of...

A fuel tanker is aground on a sandbar in Canada’s far...

Three people were killed in a small plane crash Thursday in a lagoon in the US state of California, authorities...

Another Gulf coast rig has caught fire, causing the United States Coast Guard to scramble into...

A twelve-year-old girl, riding in a car which was driving through Tapuach Junction in the West Bank, has been hit with a stone which came through the...

Another 250 were wounded in the first major attack since huge floods devastated the country more than a month...

A small aircraft crashed in Austria Thursday afternoon, killing the pilot and only passenger, police...

U.S. Agriculture Department employees worked full-time at two Iowa egg farms at the center of a salmonella outbreak and massive recall, but two former workers said they ignored complaints about...

Passengers head out of the terminal at Miami International Airport early Friday morning, Sept. 3, 2010. A spokesman for the airport said four of its six concourses were evacuated as a police bomb...

Labor Day weekend. But the unemployment rate rose in August for the first time in four months as more people entered the market looking for work.Companies added a net total of 67,000 new jobs last...

BUXTON, N.C. (AP) — Hurricane Earl roared past the North Carolina Outer Banks early Friday, flooding some parts of the narrow vacation islands and knocking out electricity before driving north...

Divers were able to find the bodies of two men in the wreckage, but the plane and the bodies cannot be moved until federal safety investigators...

Well, it did. The flag was damaged by the wind and had to be taken down, which is perhaps no surprise given that some etymologists believe Baku's name originates from the Persian for...

of opposition leader Mehdi Karrubi.Reports today also say dozens of plainclothes agents and Basij forces have surrounded the area where Karrubi lives.Karrubi's son told RFE/RL's Radio Farda that...

" (Talented Moron) writes about the role of weeping in Iran's domestic and foreign policy. He has put together a number of examples from Iran's recent...

With U.S. combat troops out of Iraq and the U.S. military presence continuing to thin out in the coming months, thousands of civilians are moving in to carry out the largest U.S.-led foreign...

, the only country in the world to host both Russian and American military installations, has been rocked by political instability and murderous violence over the past year. In April, a mob overthrew...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A blast ripped through a Shiite protest march in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta on Friday, killing at least 40 people, police and rescue officials said. At...

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement launched an investigation into the fire that erupted Thursday on Mariner Energy's Gulf of Mexico platform."We are continuing to...

WASHINGTON — The unemployment rate rose in August for the first time in four months as weak hiring by private employers wasn't enough to keep pace with a large increase in the number of people...

Hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Friday that the people of the Middle East are "capable of removing the Zionist regime from the world scene" in an annual Palestinian solidarity...

Filed at 9:21 a.m. ET LISBON, Portugal (AP) -- A Portuguese court found six men and one woman guilty Friday of crimes relating to child sex abuse in a major trial that lasted nearly six years, a...

A magnitude-6.3 earthquake shook Alaska's remote Aleutian Islands early Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.The quake struck just southeast of Adak Island at 2:16am local time at a depth of...

09/03/2010 8:19 AM Crossing into NY from any of the adjoining states is like leaving a developed country and driving into the backwaters of some banana republic. IS it because NY is skimping on...

WASHINGTON : A strong, magnitude 6.3 earthquake shook Alaska's remote Aleutian Islands early Friday, the US Geological Survey reported. The quake struck just southeast of Adak Island at 2:16 am...

PARIS : France and Britain announced on Friday they are talking about sharing the cost of military aircraft programmes, but rejected reports that they plan to merge their aircraft carrier fleets. "In...

DUSHANBE : A suicide bomber in an explosives-packed car wounded at least 25 police officers in an attack on their base in Tajikistan Friday that left the building in flames, interior ministry...

Defence Secretary Liam Fox promised "closer co-operation" with the French today as military budgets face being squeezed on both sides of the Channel. Dr Fox, who was in Paris for...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned Friday from the resumption of Mideast negotiations in Washington to confront internal opposition to his peace moves, just as his Palestinian...

A mile-long oil sheen has spread from an offshore petroleum platform burning in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana, west of the site of BP's massive spill. Coast Guard Petty Officer Bill Coklough said...

A mile-long oil sheen spread from an offshore oil platform burning in the Gulf of Mexico today. Coast Guard Petty Officer Bill Coklough said the sheen, about a mile long and 100ft wide, was...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Businesses are hiring, but not enough to make up for the massive losses of temporary government jobs. The economy lost a total of 54,000 jobs in August, according to the...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- A jobless recovery? Hardly.By historical standards, the labor market is recovering nicely -- job growth has started earlier than in past...

Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- At least 43 people have been killed and 78 others wounded in a bomb blast during an Al Quds day rally in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, authorites...

'Strange young man' Houghton had tried to sell copies of electronic files containing details of information gathering software and staff lists to the agents in The Netherlands. The Dutch...

Morning show GMTV has appeared on ITV1 for the final time after 17 years with presenter Andrew Castle paying tribute to "loyal viewers". He said there had been "squabbles along the...

Organisers of the Edinburgh Fringe have defended their decision to count customers of free shows in their box office sales. They claimed on Monday that almost two million tickets had been sold for...

Police have raided a number of properties suspected of being used as brothels in Belfast. It is understood that they rescued a number of foreign women believed to have been forced to work as...

A Welsh MP says he believes his answer machine messages were intercepted by journalists at the News of the World. Rhondda MP Chris Bryant said the Metropolitan Police told him his name appeared on...

Four teenagers have pleaded not guilty to the murder of a 61-year-old man at his home in Conwy. It is alleged that Anthoni Robinson was stabbed at his three-bedroom detached bungalow in Old Colwyn...

The police and army are patrolling the streets of the Mozambique capital Maputo after two days of deadly riots over rising food prices. The BBC's Jose Tembe in the city says some businesses...

Irish objections have delayed an EU deal to allow the transfer to Israel of personal data on EU citizens. The Republic of Ireland linked its move to its concerns about the use of forged Irish...

A group that lobbies against conceptual art has claimed 15 works by the artist Damien Hirst were inspired by others. The alleged cases are detailed in an article in art magazine The Jackdaw. ...