Afghanistan has praised Pakistan's offer to help mediate with the...

The U.S. State Department has scolded Israel for only recognizing Jewish holy...

The UK newspaper The Telegraph has revealed allegations contained in a new book that the CIA engaged in a mind control experiment in a village in...

With official visits overlapping in Afghanistan, Iran's outspoken president and the US defence secretary have accused each other of interfering in local...

A state legislator in New York wants salt banned from pre-packaged and restaurant...

A number of schools in the US were closed down on Wednesday after posted on a social networking...

The US Senate has adopted a draft bill to increase unemployment...

A United Nations report, which is still to be released, has found that up to half the food aid in Somalia is diverted to corrupt contractors, local UN workers and Islamic...

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...

The wreckage of a plane is shown in an airplane hanger Thursday, March 11, 2010 at Stellar Air Park in Chandler, Ariz. A World War II-era plane crashed Thursday while attempting to land at a small...

U.S. lawmakers are urging President Barack Obama to push Pakistan to crack down harder on Lashkar-e-Taiba militants. The House of Representatives subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia held a...

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says Gulf states seem ready to push China to support fresh UN sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program. Gates was in the United Arab Emirates to push for...

Lawyers for the city and more than 11,000 Ground Zero rescue and cleanup workers reached a tentative settlement tonight that gives the workers at least $675.5 million in compensation.The proposal,...

The actor who played dreamy young Dr. Michael McBain on "One Life To Live" pleaded guilty to misdemeanor resisting arrest in Manhattan today, in a no-jail deal that closes a bizarre, two-year-old...

In a sign that the Eric Massa controversy may not go away any time soon, the House on Thursday advanced a Republican measure calling for the ethics committee to "investigate fully" what House...

The report , compiled by an examiner for the now-bankrupt bank, hit Wall Street with a thud late Thursday. The 158-year-old Lehman, it concluded, died of multiple causes. Among them were bad mortgage...

New Orleans' watchdog has found serious problems with the work of an engineering company hired to oversee the rebuilding of city buildings and infrastructure damaged in Hurricane Katrina, including...

Shrink The decision by a Rome high school to install condom vending machines has set off a storm in Italy, with the Catholic Church charging the move will encourage young people to have sex and...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans' watchdog has found serious problems with the work of an engineering company hired to oversee the rebuilding of city buildings and infrastructure damaged in...

Police clashed with stone-throwing youths in the Greek capital yesterday as tens of thousands protested at draconian cutbacks aimed at pulling the nation out of a debt crisis shaking the eurozone. ...

It sounds like the basis for a Monty Python sketch, rather than a $50,000 lawsuit. A woman from Pennsylvania is suing Bank of America, after a contractor wrongly repossessed her home and impounded...

Sitting in the living room of his modest bungalow in the cool hills above Mandalay, the sole surviving grandson of Burma's last king laughs off the notion that he has political aspirations. Don't you...

The Islands of the Maldives, confronted by rising oceans and a landscape that is just a few feet above sea level, is poised to build a floating golf course and convention centre in what could be the...

It couldn't have been a more dramatic prelude to Sebastian Pinera's presidency. As the new Chilean leader arrived at the Congress building yesterday to be sworn in to office, a 7.2 magnitude...

A woman who walked free from court 10 years ago after the attempted mercy killing of her husband has ended her own life in a Swiss clinic. Celebrated toymaker Vicki Wood, admitted the attempted...

Search the news archive for more stories Even if freshly promised "proximity talks" between Israelis and Palestinians get under way, they are unlikely to halt the weekly protests that...

Police in Nigeria have arrested around 200 people following weekend attacks on three Christian villages in which hundreds of people were thought to have been killed. The central city of Jos, at the...

US Vice President Joe Biden was last night struggling to keep freshly announced Middle East negotiations on track despite a threat by the Palestinians not to participate unless Israel reverses its...

At first it seemed like a simple case of abduction: a five-year-old British boy snatched by masked gunmen in Pakistan on the last day of a two-week holiday with his father. A £100,000 ransom...

A town which played an iconic and controversial part in the British mission in Afghanistan is to be handed over to the Americans in a move signalling a major change in Western strategy. Musa Qala,...

Four years ago New York City's health commissioners banned artery-blocking transfats in restaurants. Now, if a legislator has his way, the chefs at every eatery in the Big Apple and across the state...

Washington (CNN) -- The wife and daughter of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid were injured Thursday in a highway accident, a spokesman for the Democratic senator from Nevada said. The injuries...

Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- The autopsy on Corey Haim revealed the actor's heart was enlarged and his lungs were filled with water when he died, Haim's manager...

Constance McMillen, an 18-year-old senior at Itawamba County Agricultural High School, reads her many messages from Facebook and Myspace concerning her desire to attend her senior prom with a...

Senior SNP figures are to meet with the BBC to discuss the row over the party's exclusion from televised general election debates.Among those attending the Edinburgh talks will be Scottish first...

A number of houses have been evacuated in Armagh due to a security alert, the police have said.A suspicious object has been found at Naill's Crescent at its junction with Friary Road. Army bomb...

The number of homes sold in England and Wales at the start of 2010 fell back to levels seen at the depths of the downturn, a survey says.Transaction levels fell to 36,000 in January, a drop of 52%...

Fluctuations in blood pressure could be more important than consistently high readings as a warning sign for stroke, researchers have said.Current guidelines focus on the need to lower blood pressure...

CHILD sex abuse scandals rocking the Catholic Church are evidence of the Devil's presence in the Vatican, the Pope's chief exorcist has said in an...

SERIOUS street clashes erupted in Athens yesterday as tens of thousands of people demonstrated during a nationwide strike against the Greek government's austerity...

A MINIATURE portrait of a Scottish naval officer who helped burn down the White House in a British attack on Washington is being sold by his family 200 years...

The airstrikes hit two targets in the southern Gaza Strip - a metal workshop and a smuggling tunnel - wounding several people, witnesses and the army said.The army said the strikes were in response...

BAGHDAD: The threat of violent protests is looming over Iraq as the country's leading opposition politician says there was widespread fraud in last week's...

THE White House is battling to play down speculation that Barack Obama may be forced to delay his visit to Indonesia and Australia next week because of the failure to meet his timetable on passing...