The FBI has been asked to look into how Wikileaks got hold of more than 90,000 classified US military...

Police in riot gear stared down protesters in a tense stand-off in Pheonix, Arizona on...

Another US serviceman has been found dead in a remote area of...

Indonesian police have been involved in a confrontation with people who were attacking a mosque used by a minority Islamic...

The US polling group, Pew Research Centre, has done a survey in Pakistan to determine how Pakistanis view the Taliban and other terrorist...

The British government has refused to consider returning the jewel in the British monarch's...

The Australian-born founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, has defended the placement of tens of thousands of classified US military files on his...

Residents of the Carteret Islands off Papua New Guinea have been pleading for help from the international community since their homes began sinking into the...

Heavy smog has been covering Russia's capital due to forest fires which have been raging for three...

Kazuo Shinozawa, 59, and Hidenori Ogata, 33, faced the hangman's noose after being convicted of multiple...

The federal court in the US has put a block on certain parts of a controversial new immigration law in...

The British prime minister has insulted the Pakistani government by claiming that Islamabad has been "exporting...

The Russian government will sell $29 billion worth of assets on the open...

Shops in the Palestinian enclave of Gaza have been told to dress their window mannequins to ensure lingerie is not on...

The Times of India has reported that an Indian teacher has been beaten to death by an angry mob after making a homemade porn film with one of his...

Jerusalem police have told deputy mayor Yitzhak Pindrus he will not be able to hold a so-called “donkey parade” alongside the annual Gay Pride Parade this...

The Pakistan government has formed two separate investigation teams to determine the actual cause of Wednesday's plane crash near Islamabad, in which all 152 passengers onboard were feared to have been...

Center for Strategic and International Studies . "I stay focused on it just because I'm paid to be skeptical. What we see right now is support -- financial support -- to parent organizations in the...

Abhisit Vejjajiva , whose legitimacy in office has been questioned, and the military, a key player in the government's stability.Local media - especially those controlled by the military - have...

Mrs. Sherrod spoke of racial reconciliation and lessons she learned after initially hesitating to help a white farmer save his home. (AP Photo/Gregory...

Police are seeking the public's assistance in identifying eight men involved in a melee outside a Times Square nightclub that left one man fatally stabbed and two others wounded.Kenyatta Cotterell,...

A Connecticut fire department union has angrily demanded the resignation of a local politician for likening their opposition to a mayoral firefighting proposal to "the way Hamas lobs rockets into...

Disgraced GOP big John Haggerty plans to fight charges he stole $1.1 million from Mayor Bloomberg by insisting the loot was fair pay for election security services, his lawyers said yesterday."This...

A Manhattan judge today pruned back the 90-count Pay-to-Play state pension indictment against a former top consultant and confidant to ex-Comptroller Alan Hevesi -- tossing 13 charges against him,...

Developer Larry Silverstein must explain why he won’t let eight small uninsured businesses pocket settlements over their losses from the Sept. 11 terror attacks, a judge ordered today. The move...

Six former cocktail waitresses say the Sin City strip club takes its name way too literally.A class-action suit filed today accuses bosses at the Bronx jiggle joint of a host of moral outrages,...

Robert M. Gates on Thursday assailed the disclosure this week of 75,000 classified documents about the Afghanistan war by the website Wikileaks, asserting that the security breach had endangered...

PORTLAND, Maine -- Investigators plan further examination of the fuel pump on a small plane that crashed near Portland International Jetport in Maine, killing two people.A preliminary report by the...

The UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon is reportedly set to announce that Mustafa Badr al-Din, a senior Hizbullah operative and close relative of the former Hizbullah terror chief Imad Mughniyeh, is the...

Dominique Cottrez, 45 - the woman who planted and cared for the geraniums - admitted to an investigating magistrate yesterday that she had murdered her eight babies between 1989 and 2006 "because she...

In just a few days, new Prime Minister David Cameron has openly declared Britain is no more than the "junior partner" of the US, irritated Israelis by calling Gaza a prison camp and enraged...

The State of Arizona has asked an appeals court to reverse a judge's order blocking most of the state's controversial new immigration laws. Meanwhile, the city of Phoenix filled with protesters,...

Too many men with low-risk prostate cancers, those whose level of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is normal or below normal, still receive aggressive treatment, a new study...

Russian and U.S. flags fly side by side in front of the Russian Soyuz rocket in Kazakhstan in June. The countries have been compared on numerous fronts -- researchers most recently reported on the...

A man listed as the oldest-living male in Tokyo died some 30 years ago, city officials said after his body was found mummified. Police visited the home of Sogen Kato at the request of officials...

Her ear lobes are pendulous. Her clothes are "drab and unflattering". Her boyfriend is nowhere to be seen. And, as if the media criticism were not bad enough, Julia Gillard has a high-placed enemy...

Arab nations yesterday backed the Palestinian President's refusal to immediately restart direct talks with Israel despite heavy US pressure. The Arab foreign ministers endorsed the idea of direct...

It is the brash upstart on the Israeli media scene with money to burn and already with a reputation it's trying to shed. Israel Hayom, a free newspaper that for the first time has stormed to the...

David Cameron defended his stinging criticism of Pakistan last night as he prepared to seek greater co-operation from the country's President in tackling terrorism when he visits Britain next week....

As many as 138 people died when an overloaded boat carrying passengers and goods capsized in rough water in the Democratic Republic of Congo, police said. Congo's government confirmed the incident,...

A Canadian woman who was attacked by a bear in the middle of the night at a busy US campsite was bitten on her arm and leg before she instinctively played dead. She said she adopted the tactic in the...

Whatever its failings the transitional government in Mogadishu has to be preferable to an absolute takeover of Somalia by the radical Islamists of al-Shabaab. This has been the red line that cannot...

President Barack Obama takes his seat on the chat-show couch with The View co-hosts, left to right, Whoopi Goldberg, Barbara Walters, Joy Behar, Sherri Shepherd and Elisabeth...

The world's third-most-wanted Nazi suspect, who allegedly participated in the murder of more than 430,000 Jews at the Belzec death camp, was involved in the entire killing process, according to court...

The UN General Assembly has declared access to clean water and sanitation a "human right" in a resolution that more than 40 countries, including the US and Britain, did not support. The resolution...

It wasn't all bad news for Jan Brewer, the hard-knuckle governor of Arizona who has taken ownership of the state's attempt to crack down on illegal immigration, and therefore managed to turn herself...

David Cameron's controversial attack on the links between the Taliban and the Pakistani military misses the point. Those links are our only hope of solving this conflict, argues Patrick...

When news of the last-minute injunction reached the crowd of protesters outside Arizona's state capitol in Phoenix, Patricia Rosas dropped to her knees next to a makeshift Catholic altar, crossed her...