In the third terrorist attack in two days, a Pakistani court has been targeted by a suicide bomber leaving at least ten...

US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, has called the timing of the announcement by Isreal of new construction in East Jerusalem...

US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejects challenge brought by doctor against religious references on currency and in the pledge of...

The Pope has defended celibacy as a commitment to God, following increasing allegations of sexual...

Almost Free Warehouse, a chain of stores in Israel, hopes to benefit from the media storm surrounding the Dubai assasination with a parody...

11-year-old Marcelas Owens takes his late mother's place campaigning for healthcare reform on steps of Capital...

Former astronauts who landed on the moon in the hey-day of lunar missions have voiced their concern at President Obama's decision to move back further...

British Airways cabin crew will go on strike for three days from the 20th of March and four days from the 27th of March, says Unite, the union representing...

A teacher in Alaska, whose body was found by snowmobilers, was likely to have been attacked by wolves, according to the State Medical...

Twin suicide bombings in the Pakistani city of Lahore have killed and wounded scores of...

A woman and her husband have been sentenced following rape of eight-year-old...

The Vatican today denounced what it called aggressive attempts to drag Pope Benedict XVI into the spreading scandals of pedophile priests in his German homeland.It also insisted that church...

KABUL, Afghanistan — At least four strong explosions rocked Kandahar on Saturday evening, causing buildings to collapse and killing dozens of people, according to Afghan and American officials....

Russia ’s biggest challenge in preparing to serve as host for the 2014 Winter Olympics seemed to be just mustering the resources to build the facilities in Sochi, a downtrodden Soviet-era...

WASHINGTON - A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction of a reputed member of the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan accused in the kidnapping of two black men who were abducted and killed in...

Of high-performing schools, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan says "we want to get out of their way," but chronically low-performing schools should have to take drastic steps to improve, he...

Baghdad - At least three people were killed and 13 injured Saturday in bomb blasts in Baghdad and the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, police told local media. Police told Baghdad's Aswat al-Iraq...

(Reuters) - Venezuela on Saturday tested six training and light attack jets bought from China for defense and anti-drugs flights in a deal that dodges an embargo banning sales of U.S. weapons parts...

Pelosi: Dems "Close" to Health Care Deal (AP) Newly arrived Republican Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts accused President Barack Obama and Democrats on Saturday of a "bitter, destructive and...

Afghan Civilians Killed in NATO Airstrike (CBS/AP) Four suicide attackers have killed at least 30 in the southern city of Kandahar, according to the half-brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. ...

By Noor Kahn ASSOCIATED PRESS KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) -- The Afghan president's half-brother says at least 30 people have died and dozens more hurt in four suicide attacks in the southern city of...

The monster accused of viciously beating a nurse in the bathroom of a Hell’s Kitchen bar after she rebuffed him on the dance floor was slapped with beefed up charges of attempted murder at his...

Federal investigators looking into corruption involving reconstruction in Iraq say they have opened more than 50 new cases in the past six months by scrutinizing large cash transactions made by some...

03/13/2010 1:45 PM You can be sure this teacher will not call out the Islamic terrorist thugs who enslave their women raise their children to hate and teach them to commit violence against all who...

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu convened his top ministers for a meeting Saturday evening to discuss the fallout of an announcement on construction in Jerusalem made during the visit of US Vice...

Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A series of explosions rocked southern Afghanistan's volatile Kandahar province on Saturday, killing at least 35 people and wounding 47 others, local officials...

(CNN) -- Singer and activist Annie Lennox wants the world to know that the HIV virus and the debilitating condition it causes, AIDS, are the leading killers of women of reproductive age in the...

Current Togo President Faure Gnassingbe, center waves to supporters as he exits a polling station after casting his vote for president, in Lome, Togo Thursday, March 4, 2010. (THE ASSOCIATED...

At least one loud explosion has been heard in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, reports say.The cause of the blast, which happened at about 1530 GMT, was not immediately clear, the interior...

England retained the Calcutta Cup as they fought out a nerve-shredding draw with Scotland, who now look certain to end with the Six Nations wooden spoon. Dan Parks kicked his side into a 9-6...

Germans to Examine What Pope Knew of Abuse (AP) The Vatican on Saturday denounced what it called aggressive attempts to drag Pope Benedict XVI into the spreading scandals of pedophile priests in his...

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican on Saturday denounced what it called aggressive attempts to drag Pope Benedict XVI into the spreading scandals of pedophile priests in his German homeland.It also insisted...

SEPTA, local labor leaders, and other proponents of I-80 tolls are putting Sen. Arlen Specter (D., Pa.) in the hot seat, demanding that he push Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood to approve the...

It was Thanksgiving 2008 and Tara Acquesta was thinking of her cousin, Nicole Fogel, who had gone missing two years earlier. Both in their early 20s, only a few months apart, they had been close as...

Dawn Freney of West Chester believes her children - (from left) Katie, 13; Matthew, 12; Emily, 8; Caroline, 4; Julia 7; and Tommy, 10 - kept her MS in...

REYNOSA, Mexico — The big philosophical question in this gritty border town does not concern trees falling in the forest but bodies falling on the concrete: Does a shootout actually happen if...

Vatican spoke out on Saturday to protect the pope against what it called an aggressive campaign against him in his native Germany. At the same time, a high-ranking Vatican official overseeing...

AMMAN, Jordan — Muhannad Haddad grew up here, went to school here, got a job in a bank here and traveled to foreign countries with a passport from here. Then one day the authorities said he was...

CARACAS, Venezuela — The shadowy underworld of Basque exiles in this city is coming under sharp scrutiny after recent arrests in Europe and an indictment this month from one of Spain’s...

WASHINGTON : The fierce and fateful battle over health care reform has forced President Barack Obama to delay his departure on a trip to Indonesia and Australia by three days, to March 21. Obama...

DOHA - The only UN body with the power to ban trade in endangered animals and plants began a triennial meeting in Doha on Saturday with Atlantic bluefin tuna, African elephants and polar bears on the...

Washington (CNN) -- Is the Coffee Party on the scale of the Tea Party movement? Saturday is the first big test in attempting to answer that...

Washington (CNN) -- As House Democratic leaders advised their members Friday to prepare for a legislative battle over health care that could stretch through next weekend, four additional...

The explosions were near a hotel, a prison, a mosque and at an crossroads in the centre of Kandahar, deputy provincial police chief Mohammad Shad Farooqi said. There is no word yet on whether or not...

Kate Garraway, Katy Brand and Debra Stephenson are set for the final of the celebrity competition Let's Dance later in aid of Sports Relief.There had been doubt over GMTV's Garraway taking part in...

Pristina - A vehicle used by the European Union's law enforcement mission in Kosovo (EULEX) was attacked and damaged near the border with Serbia early Saturday, Kosovo police said. A police...

Tehran - An Iranian court has sentenced a top female reformist arrested after last year's election dispute to three years in jail for plotting to harm national security, her lawyer said on Saturday. ...

Jerusalem - Groups of young Palestinians rioted Saturday in the Old City of Jerusalem and the West bank after Israeli police closed both areas to devout Muslims seeking to go to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in...

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan rowed back on Saturday from a total ban on media broadcasts of "disturbing" images from insurgent attacks or live pictures of security...

Swedish Cartoonist: Murder Plot "Low-Tech" (CBS/AP) A Colorado woman has been detained in Ireland in connection with an alleged plot to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist whose sketch offended many...