The Leader of the Liberal Democrats in Britain has slammed world leaders for allowing the violence currently taking place in the Middle...

Six Israeli soldiers have now been killed since the army's ground offensive in Gaza began on...

President-elect Barack Obama has underscored the urgency of finalizing economic legislation with reporters in...

Israel says it has decided to open a humanitarian corridor into the Gaza Strip....

Israel's Ambassador to Venezuela has been expelled amid claims his country is carrying out...

US and other coalition forces have killed 32 armed Taliban insurgents east of the Afghan capital,...

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said there will soon be changes to the French judiciary, to take it away from the magisterial...

At least forty people have died and dozens more were wounded when the Israeli army targeted an elementary school in Jabalya in northern Gaza...

Israeli ground troops have been withdrawing from the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan...

An immediate cease-fire between Israel and the Palestinians in Gaza has been proposed by Egyptian President Hosni...

In Washington, the new American Congress has convened for the first time in 2009....

Nine cabinet ministers have been purged from the North Korean...

UN aid agencies have conducted a mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo's Orientale Province, where agency workers say people are living in a state of utter desolation....

Crisis talks are being held in Kenya to discuss the fragile eight-month-old coalition...

Sheikh Hasina Wajed has become Bangladesh's Prime Minister....

Residents of the Israeli city of Sderot have faced increased numbers of rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip since Israel began their offensive against ...

Investigators with the Transportation Safety Board were expected to reach the scene of a small plane crash that killed two people in a remote area in southern Quebec Tuesday afternoon. Search crews...

Frances Townsend: Leon Panetta has had a fine career in government She says his lack of intelligence experience is raising questions Townsend: CIA crucial to U.S. security and needs leader who will...

By Sam Lyon FIRST SET Murray 3-1 Petzschner Bosh. Three aces and that's that for the hold for Murray. "So much for the double bagel - shall we settle for a jammy doughnut and a cup of...

MASKED gunmen opened fire and threw a grenade at a Mexican television station as it aired its nightly newscast Tuesday, leaving behind a message warning the station about its coverage of drug...

FORT WORTH, Texas - A man shot in the back 35 years ago has died of complications from the shooting and his death has been ruled a homicide - but prosecutors fear the trail for the suspect has long...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The chief of Pakistan's powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency has said there will not be a war with India over November's militant attacks on the Indian city of...

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Despite mounting international pressure for an end to hostilities between Israel and Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip, Hamas declared on Wednesday that it would not accept any permanent...

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates says military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan would cost almost $136 billion for the 2009 budget year that began on October 1 if they continue at their current...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Israel and militant Palestinians are locked in deadly battle in the Middle East, but Iran poses the biggest challenge in the region to the incoming Obama administration,...

Bucharest - Romania declared a state of emergency on Wednesday as deliveries of Russian gas ceased entirely, but the government insisted the country had sufficient reserves to last up to 80 days. ...

New York's phone and Internet claims system started to buckle on Monday afternoon and was out of service completely for the first half of Tuesday while as many as 10,000 people per hour tried to get...

More than 400 workers - mostly in London - are expected to lose their jobs as Barclays Bank announced a review of its operations. The jobs, in its IT departments, are principally in Cheshire and...

A Quebec police officer drives Denis Deroy of the Transportation Safety Board to the site of the airplane crash near Buckland, 90 kilometres southeast of Quebec City. Two passengers are died and two...

New car sales slumped again last month, dragging total sales for 2008 in the UK down 11.3% compared with 2007. A total of 108,691 new cars were registered in December - 21.2% down on the December...

After a frantic search, the 21-month-old girl, named Ana Clara, was found hugging a tree - a mere 400 metres from where she had gone missing. Ana had survived her ordeal by eating mud and grass. ...

Joseph Violanti was charged in October with receiving sexually explicit images of minors and possession of child pornography. The charges stem from incidents in Monroe County between 2001 and...

An Australian court has issued a blunt warning about the sexual predators a young driver faces in jail if he does not stop speeding, as authorities struggle to stop teenagers street...

MOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) - Russian gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine shut down completely Wednesday, leaving growing numbers of European Union member states without Russian fuel in freezing...

A 35-year-old man has admitted killing a teacher in a park in Limavady 18 months ago. Victor Kennedy, of no fixed abode, originally denied murdering 37-year-old Michael McGinnis, from Limavady. ...

Middlesbrough have insisted that they will not sell Stewart Downing or any other senior player during the January transfer window. The Premier League club have denied receiving a third bid from...

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Ex-Presidents Carter, George H.W. Bush voted out of office with low approval ratings Today, their approval ratings have about doubled in CNN-Opinion Research poll President Bush is leaving office...

GAZA CITY, Gaza (AP) — Israel's military says it has suspended its Gaza offensive for three hours to allow aid and fuel into the embattled Palestinian...

Stephen Fry and comedian Lee Evans will be among the guests when Jonathan Ross's chat show returns to BBC One following his three-month suspension. Rockers Franz Ferdinand will also appear on Friday...

Milan - Overnight snowfalls in the northern Italian city of Milan prompted authorities on Wednesday morning to close down Malpensa and Linate airports, according to the administrator for these...

WASHINGTON : President-elect Barack Obama and his top aides called lawmakers, deployed surrogates and offered public testimonials as they scrambled to mend a divide in Democratic Party ranks over the...

Egypt is demanding Iran bring to justice the authors of an advertisement calling on Iranians to assassinate Egyptian President Hosni...

Police have issued an arrest warrant for a Philadelphia man charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of a Chester man after an argument over a cell phone. Chester police are looking...

OMAHA, Neb. - An Omaha man has filed a lawsuit accusing his ex-wife and former father-in-law of hiding a recording device inside his daughter's teddy bear in order to spy on him. The lawsuit...

NEW YORK - Conservative author Ann Coulter initially seemed pleased yesterday to appear on CBS's The Early Show, especially after an interview she was set to do on NBC's Today the same morning was...

GAS supplies through the main import and transit pipeline from Russia to the Czech Republic and Western Europe stopped completely overnight, the Czech importer RWE Transgas said...

A winter storm warning remains in effect in the counties to the north and west of Philadelphia tonight, with rain likely to become freezing rain overnight. "There could be ice accumulation by...

Charles Tyson has decided not to serve a third term as mayor of South Harrison Township, saying he and his family have endured death threats and racist vandalism since he became the town's first...