A woman who gives birth to only daughters is as good as a barren one. That is what Mrs Eunice Kipkemoi Jerono Tarus and her family were told as her matrimonial home was...

The top congressional official who oversees research on foreign policy and defense issues, including the war in Afghanistan, has been fired from his job after...

His first impulse was to dismiss the ominous email as a prank, says a young Iranian-American named Koosha. It warned the 29-year-old engineering student that his...

Homeless South Africans complained on Thursday they were being forced from the streets of Cape Town to make way for a host of star-studded, glamorous events surrounding...

Dubai’s ruler writes poetry, rides horses across the desert in long-distance endurance races and hobnobs with royals like the Queen of England. Mixing...

New York club promoter Rachel Uchitel, who has denied having an affair with the golf superstar, called a press conference to give more details of her relationship with...

They called it a “solidarity caravan” — a group of Spanish volunteers delivering truckloads of donated computers, wheelchairs and other gifts for Africa’s...

Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, during a press conference in Berlin, this Thursday, December 3, suggested that the US and Russia should first get rid of...

Mexico City police on Thursday freed 107 people who were forced to work under slave-like conditions in a clandestine factory making shopping bags and clothing clasps,...

Cuba hit back Thursday at 60 prominent U.S. black leaders who challenged its race record, with island writers, artists and official journalists calling the criticism an...

A suicide bomber has killed a police chief and at least four others during an attack in the Iraqi town of Tikrit, police officials say. The target of the attack...

Suicide attackers armed with guns and grenades attacked a mosque near Pakistan’s army headquarters in Rawalpindi during Friday prayers this morning, killing at...

North Korea Friday hailed efforts to build a strong socialist economy but kept silent about its shock currency revaluation which has reportedly sparked fury and...

Vladimir Putin has given the strongest hint yet that he may return to the Russian presidency in 2012. During a marathon televised question-and answer-session with the...

A military aide has tried to assassinate Guinea’s ruler, a government official said, wounding the leader who seized power in a coup nearly a year ago and has come...

An overcrowded passenger boat capsized in northern Bangladesh on Friday after being hit by a small ferry, leaving at least 47 people dead and several missing, police...

It’s not quite “Zack and Miri Make A Porno,” but it’s pretty close: a couple in Britain have taken to making porn films in order to finance...

During his speech from West Point on Tuesday, President Obama specified the date when U.S. forces would start to withdraw from Afghanistan. “[A]dditional American...

President Obama will finally have a bipartisan piece of legislation passed through Congress because opposition to the troop surge he proposes in Afghanistan is so...

Every morning, Sarim Zaidi, 17, puts on his school uniform, straightens his tie and hops into the car his parents provide for him to go to the Imperial International...