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

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...

Joseph Weber President Obama on Thursday ordered an all-out effort by the U.S. government to increase exports to create more jobs amid record-high unemployment. "This morning, I signed an...

David M. Dickson The U.S. trade deficit unexpectedly declined in January as both exports and imports fell, while the volume of imported crude oil dropped to its lowest level in more than a decade. ...

Jennifer Haberkorn A top House Democrat said Thursday that leaders may not have to change the Senate health care bill's abortion-related provisions to meet the demands of 12 members who have...

SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Bosnia's war crimes prosecutor today indicted three former Bosnian Muslim soldiers over the killing of more than 20 Croat civilians and prisoners of war during the Muslim-Croat...

LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. soldiers will take over security from British troops in the Musa Qala area of southern Afghanistan as Washington builds up its force as part of a new counterinsurgency...

MOSCOW—Stanislav Sutyagin was driving with a friend on Moscow’s busy ring highway last week when the traffic police stopped him and several other drivers and ordered them to block the...

Iran , the State Department said on Thursday that the human rights situation there had “degenerated” since the disputed presidential election last year. In a toughly worded analysis, the...

"Law & Order" TV cop Richard Belzer said an Apple employee's claim that he choked her in an Upper West Side computer store was like a story line from his show -- pure fiction."The sad part of it...

PATERSON, N.J. — A New Jersey man with apocalyptic visions is accused of years of terrorizing his family, raping his five daughters and impregnating three, beating his children with wooden...

NEW YORK, Mar 11, 2010 (IPS) - Despite diplomatic maneuvering designed to block any review of its human rights record, a United Nations special rapporteur has told the U.N. Human Rights Council that...

BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was in a tight contest to keep his job as he vied with ex-premier Iyad Allawi, initial election results from four of the country's 18 provinces showed...

KIEV: Ukraine's new President Viktor Yanukovych on Thursday tightened his grip on power as one of his closest allies became prime minister and his party formed a government coalition. The new...

A series of strong aftershocks from last month's devastating quake rocked Chile overnight, prompting warnings to coastal residents to move to higher ground in case of a tsunami. The strongest...

Gates said leaders in both countries seemed reassured when he described the U.S.-backed plan to target Iranian leadership and the powerful...

He says U.S. troops open fire on Aseel al-Obeidi and her husband's car but gave no further details. He spoke Thursday on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the...

MUNICH (AP) — German educators sharply criticized Catholic church officials for their handling of a spiraling child abuse scandal even as more alledged victims came forward Thursday, including a...

Washington (CNN) -- When their kids turn 12, parents are concerned about peers pressuring them to smoke cigarettes, drink and use drugs, but it turns out 12-year-olds are doing something else:...

Washington (CNN) -- House Republicans agreed Thursday to adopt a ban on congressional earmarks in spending bills for next year, upping the ante with Democrats in the political battle over fiscal...

(CNN) -- An Oklahoma elementary school student has died of bacterial meningitis, officials said Thursday, and two other students are hospitalized with the...

Britain should apologise to a former Bosnian president for "mistreating" him in prison, the chairman of the joint presidency of Bosnia-Hercegovina said.Former Bosnian President Ejup Ganic,...

A female pornographic film director has been selected as the Liberal Democrat prospective parliamentary candidate for Gravesham, Kent, it has been announced.Anna Arrowsmith, managing director of...

Scientists have discovered the primary mechanism by which thalidomide causes malformed limbs in developing embryos.This side-effect was recognised after thousands of affected children were born to...

Kabul - Five Afghan civilians, four of them children, were killed in an explosion on Thursday, and gunmen shot dead a South African construction contractor and his Afghan colleague in a separate...

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Austin Moving Company , All My Sons Moving and Storage was called upon to help The Scientific Institute move out of the recently attacked Austin IRS Building (The Echelon Building) last week. "We...

Violent Clashes in Athens amid Debt Crisis (AP) Serious street clashes erupted between rioting youths and police in central Athens Thursday as tens of thousands demonstrated during a nationwide...

Kansas City Closing Nearly Half of Schools (AP) Kansas City's school superintendent said Thursday the plan to shutter nearly half the district's schools, while "painful," will move forward quickly so...

Tiger Woods has hired Ari Fleischer, the former press secretary to President George W. Bush, to help shape his image as he returns to professional...

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.'s new motion controller. Used with the existing PlayStation Eye camera, the device can track players' body movements. The controller has a light-emitting orb that is...

Andy Richter Slams NBC, Leno (CBS/ AP) Without a TV show to do every night, Conan O'Brien is taking his act on the road. The former "Tonight Show" host announced a 30-city theater tour on Thursday....

Penn medical student Naomi Rosenberg (right) talks to Celine Gay while balancing 3-month-old Harvell on her knee. Both Haitians came to Philadelphia for medical...

Republican congressional candidate and former U.S. Attorney Pat Meehan has asked the Delaware County prosecutor to investigate some of the nominating petitions he filed earlier this week for possible...

Luck smiled on the Philadelphia area last night.Nobody won the Powerball jackpot - propelling it to $200 million ($96.3 million cash) for Saturday's drawing - but a ticket bought in Bucks County won...

Pennsylvania's ranking labor leader, Bill George, is stepping down. George, 68, who for 20 years has been president of the state AFL-CIO, said today that he hoped to pass the baton to his top...

The Gulfstream G4 of the NOAA Winter Storms Reconnaisance, on the ground before leaving Honolulu, Hawaii, for the Jet Stream survey over the North Pacific. (Laurence Kesterson / Staff) Computer...

Court hearings are under way today for some 30 teenagers charged following two recent rampages through Center City.Family Court Judge Kevin Dougherty has ordered the juveniles appearing before him to...

HARRISBURG - Steve Keefer and Brett Cott were loyal legislative staffers who toiled behind the scenes at the state Capitol and had little involvement in the bonus scandal that forced them into the...

A three-month investigation into online child pornography led to the arrests of 44 defendants statewide who ranged in age from a juvenile to a 70-year-old, state police said this morning. The probe,...

The best estimate is that Scottie Reynolds needs four more games to become Villanova's career scoring leader. Reynolds likes that plan only because it would mean the Wildcats were advancing in the...

Roman P. Niedzwiedz, 62, of Marlton, a decorated Vietnam veteran who founded New Jersey's Mission of Honor for the Cremains of American Veterans, died Saturday of a heart attack at his home. Because...