Indonesian police have confirmed the deaths of three terrorists in raids outside the capital,...

Pakistani police have reported a militant incident at the offices of a US-based Christian aid...

In Myanmar, a new law may force the National League for Democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, out of the...

Bangladesh has been accused of starving and blocking medical treatment for Rohingya...

US Vice President Joe Biden has told the Israeli prime minister that the US condemns an Israeli plan to build hundreds of homes in disputed east...

The US State Department has apologised over comments made by a State Department official about Libyan leader Muammar...

China has been given direct access to the Sea of Japan for the first time since the 19th century, thanks to a lease deal with North...

A former television producer on the David Letterman show has admitted in a New York court that he tried to extract two million dollars from the famous television...

Top prison officials in Saint Petersburg have been charged with the rape of two prisoners, one of whom was awaiting...

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News ) announced Wednesday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, has given permission to initiate a phase II proof of concept study with its investigational depression drug EVT 101.The...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -- Ten men captured by Russian security forces in a raid that killed a militant leader last week have been arrested as suspects in a deadly November train bombing, Russian news...

One of Iran's most prominent filmmakers, Abbas Kiarostami, has called for the release of Jafar Panahi and Mahmoud Rasoulof, two directors recently detained by the Iranian authorities."New York...

Iranian human rights lawyer and women’s rights advocate Shadi Sadr has dedicated her “Women of Courage Award,” given by the U.S. State Department, to jailed human rights activist...

KYIV (Reuters) -- Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has offered the post of deputy prime minister in charge of economic affairs to reformist former central bank chairman Serhiy Tihipko,...

BRUSSELS -- Catherine Ashton, the European Union's new high representative for foreign policy, says that reforms in the bloc's immediate neighborhood will be her key priority. Such reforms, she said,...

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has condemned Israel's plans to expand a Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem by building 1,600 more homes in a disputed neighborhood there. The expansion plan, announced...

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United Nations official said, offering an incomplete picture of the vote that will nevertheless provide the broad outlines of the country’s political landscape. The results were initially...

Claude Parent: Graphic and Built Works, at the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine in Paris, features the Église Sainte-Bernadette du Banlay, in...

King Abdullah and Crown Prince bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud over dinner at one of the king’s desert camps. He arrived in Saudi Arabia from Afghanistan, where earlier on Wednesday he told an...

KABUL — Taking aim at the US, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday that it's the United States that is playing a "double game" in Afghanistan, fighting terrorists it once...

BANGKOK, Mar 10, 2010 (IPS) - Not even religious advocates and leaders and can say no to the power of online media, whose call they are heeding in order to spread various messages of spirituality. In...

The United States is studying whether it can legally challenge Chinese Internet restrictions that hurt Google and other US companies operating in China, but direct talks with Beijing might yield...

Indonesia's president said a top-ranked Southeast Asian militant wanted for planning the 2002 Bali bombings was identified as the man shot dead by police in a raid on the island of Java. ...

A dozen centuries-old shipwrecks - some of them unusually well-preserved - were found in the Baltic Sea by a gas company building an underwater pipeline between Russia and Germany. The...

(CNN) -- Catholic bishops in the Netherlands have announced an independent investigation into allegations of child abuse by clergy, widening a scandal that touches countries including the United...

Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates toured Camp Blackhorse in eastern Afghanistan and reassured Afghan soldiers training there that U.S. friendship with their country will be...

Jerusalem (CNN) -- A 23-year-old American activist stands in front of an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza. The bulldozer drives over her, crushing her to death. These are the...

Archbishop defends decision not to re-enroll children of lesbians at Catholic school Archbishop claims decision is in line with church teachings Children will be harmed being away from friends,...

Reoffending by criminals serving short sentences costs the UK taxpayer up to £10bn a year, says a report. Is prison the right answer? Around 60,000 prisoners are jailed for less than 12 months each...

The Official Charts Company will also publish the official midweek chart updates on single and album sales on Radio 1's website, Facebook and...

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France's flamboyant, diminutive President and his younger pop star wife are allegedly both having affairs, according to some of France's most reputable...

Guinness Book of Records to include her as the oldest person. "Antisa Khvichava was born in the 19th century, and she is amazing," said Giorgi Vashadze, head of Georgia's Civil Registry Agency. "We...

At 2am today the first 100 soldiers from the Edinburgh-based 1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland were due to set off for Afghanistan.The rest of the 400 troops will be flying out over the...

An Iraqi soldier secures workers unloading boxes of parliamentary election ballots at a tally centre in Baghdad March 9, 2010. Iraq held their parliamentary election on...

Authors Defend Claim on UK Secret Prisons (AP) United States intelligence agencies misled key allies, including Britain, about the mistreatment of suspected terrorists, according to the former head...

Holland: Abdulmutallab Raised No Red Flags (AP) It starts with a tip, a scrap of intelligence, a fingerprint lifted from a suspected terrorist's home. It ends when a person is forbidden to board...

Seven years ago, when Paul Kimport was looking for a house, his requirements were few: It had to be cheap and near the Standard Tap, the pub that he co-owns in Northern Liberties. Kimport settled a...

Kara Rowland Tales about the White House's hot-tempered, foul-mouthed chief of staff are legion, from Rahm Emanuel's mailing of a dead fish to a pollster to a lawmaker's accusation that Mr. Emanuel...

Joseph Curl POLITICAL THEATER Embattled former Rep. Eric Massa sat down for his much-anticipated Fox News interview Tuesday night and deployed the tickle defense. No. Really. Asked by Glenn...

Casey Curlin President Obama's approval of the recent firing of teachers at a Rhode Island high school has spurred a debate among education specialists about whether staff turnover will help...

DENVER | Tensions between the Catholic Church and the gay community have erupted in Colorado after a Catholic school's decision to deny enrollment next year to the children of a lesbian couple. ...

Cheryl Wetzstein A Georgia bill that would outlaw abortions based on race, color or sex is fueling arguments over whether abortion providers are targeting black women. The Prenatal...

By Dean Fosdick ASSOCIATED PRESS Gardening can be comforting — even therapeutic — for troops trying to shake the stresses of war. There's a long history of soldiers growing plants in...

Marybeth Hicks Who would have thought you could contract carpal tunnel syndrome at the oral surgeon's office? After writing my initials and signing my name on roughly 217 consent forms, I was ready...

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MIAMI | Culinary student Solomon Nerio could be slaving away on the line in any Miami restaurant, chopping onions with a dozen other chefs. Instead, he took to the road in a food truck that serves...