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...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have met in a meeting promoted by...

Mexican authorities are searching for migrants they believe have been kidnapped in north...

Catherine Zeta-Jones has been angered by a medical diagnosis of her husband, Michael Douglas, in which he was told he has stage four cancer of the...

Authorities in Western Australia have used a large amount of explosives to blow up a live...

Libya has allowed 37 Islamists, including a former driver of Osama bin Laden and members of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, to leave a prison in which they had been held since...

A New York man has survived after plunging from the rooftop of a 40 storey...

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

Tajik officials say a suicide car bomber blew himself up at a police station in northern Tajikistan today, causing casualties.Officials said the bomber rammed his car packed with explosives into the...

Fresh fires are being reported in Russia. Local media says two people have been killed and at least 10 injured in the blazes near Volgograd and Saratov in southern Russia. Interfax says President...

A visit to Afghanistan by U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has been overshadowed by a NATO airstrike in northern Afghanistan.Afghan President Hamid Karzai says the strike killed 10 election...

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SYDNEY — Actor Paul Hogan, star of the “Crocodile Dundee” movie trilogy, has been cleared to return home to the United States after he was barred last month from leaving Australia...

A Long Island accountant was nabbed with more than $10,000 worth of US Open tickets after he was spotted illegally hawking a pair of the ducats, prosecutors said yesterday. Police said they caught...

A shockingly malnourished 4-year-old Brooklyn girl weighed just 15 pounds when she was found dead yesterday by her mother in their filthy home -- and there was evidence she'd previously been tied to...

A pro-charter Democratic group yesterday endorsed challenger Basil Smikle over incumbent Bill Perkins for the state Senate seat from Harlem. "We need state elected leaders who will continue to drive...

Teachers who have been shed from schools but continue to get full pay to work as substitutes have been lax about seeking permanent positions, school officials charged yesterday. New city Department...

Hundreds of Ponzi king Bernard Madoff's victims yesterday challenged the latest mega-bill from his bankruptcy trustee -- which seeks $34 million for 120 days of work. The Aug. 20 bill, for services...

ALBANY -- Rick Lazio holds a 47 to 35 percent lead over multimillionaire Buffalo builder Carl Paladino among likely voters in the GOP primary for governor, a Quinnipiac University poll released...

ALBANY -- Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli warned yesterday that the state's massive pension fund could soon slip into the red for the first time in seven years, despite a $1.3 billion hike in fees to...

Two-thirds of New York City residents want a planned Muslim community center and mosque to be relocated to a less controversial site farther away from ground zero in Lower Manhattan, including many...

MIAMI — Federal officials say a passenger has been taken into custody after screeners detected something suspicious in a checked bag at Miami International Airport. A statement by the...

After a tense summer of negotiations, Walt Disney and Time Warner Cable struck a deal that will keep channels such as ABC and ESPN on the air. The two have been negotiating the fees that Time Warner...

Redwood Shores, California: A small plane that crashed into a shallow lagoon off San Francisco Bay on Thursday, killing three people. The plane belonged to the founder of a local steel company who...

Analysis: Netanyahu says he and Abbas did not come to Washington "to pay blame game where even the winners lose," but the two leaders have already started arguing, albeit...

MOSCOW: Five people died in southern Russia after new forest fires broke out, a regional official told news agencies on Friday. "According to our data, the bodies of five people were found in the...

WASHINGTON: The Israeli and Palestinian leaders have pledged to work towards a resolution of all the core issues of disagreement within a year with the aim of establishing a Palestinian state living...

Actor Paul Hogan has been given permission to leave Australia after a travel ban placed on him by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) was lifted, his lawyers say. Hogan and the ATO have reached...

South Korea and the United States will hold joint anti-submarine exercises in another show of force against North Korea, officials said Friday, as Pyongyang renewed threats against the drills. The...

Three asylum seekers forcibly removed to Sri Lanka in 2009 are believed to have been tortured and jailed following an attempt to return to Australia, says Amnesty International. The human rights...

Israelis and Palestinians have embarked on another round of peace talks after two days of stroking and cajoling by the Obama administration — an outcome that experts said is about as good as it...

Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- The sham marriage trial of actress Fernanda Romero, which the judge has likened to a soap opera, appeared threatened with a mistrial Friday after a dramatic turn a...

Hamas , which was not involved in the talks, said 13 militant groups in the Gaza Strip would work together to launch "more effective attacks" against Israel. Asked if this included suicide bombings,...

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. (AP) -- A small plane that crashed into a shallow lagoon off San Francisco Bay on Thursday, killing three people, belonged to the founder of a local steel company who was...

Silver Springs, Maryland - A gunman who police shot dead after he took hostages at Discovery Channel's headquarters said he hated the company's shows, such as Kate Plus 8, because they promoted...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan is expected to hold off on easing monetary policy next week but is gearing up for further action in October as the strong yen threatens to derail its forecast of a...

LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund will give Pakistan $450 million in emergency flood aid, providing some relief for a government overwhelmed by the disaster and facing...