The Sri Lankan military says an explosion has rocked the capital, Colombo.

Palestinian officials say Egypt has opened its border crossing with the Gaza Strip, allowing hundreds of people to enter and leave the coastal territory.

From the Gaza neighborhoods where Hamas radicals now collect money for utilities and mete out justice, President Bush’s goal of forging an Israeli-Palestinian...

Chinese authorities have reversed their decision and will not send two elderly women to a labor camp after they applied to protest during the Olympics, a human rights...

Thailand’s prime minister faced growing pressure to resign as anti-government protesters occupied his headquarters for a fifth day Saturday and disrupted rail and...

The Afghan girl, the first baby to be photographed in the womb, the pregnant five year old girl...see these amazing photos here. The mushroom cloud over Nagasaki etc....

Police say a boat rescuing people in a flooded area of northern India has capsized, killing 20 people.

Mexicans called for mass protests Saturday against a tide of killings, kidnappings and shootouts sweeping the country despite the government’s aggressive fight...

Chinese police investigating a spate of attacks this month in western Xinjiang province shot dead six suspects and arrested three others, state media reported.

Pakistan’s army says it has killed 30 militants in fighting in the country’s volatile northwest.

The San Juan Star, Puerto Rico’s Pulitzer Prize-winning English-language newspaper, closed Friday, the owner said, blaming the union for not agreeing to benefit...

International protesters who defied Israel’s blockade of Gaza to aid Palestinians sailed into Cyprus’ Larnaca port late Friday, pledging to make a return...

A provincial health official says that an unusually high number of people have fallen ill with salmonella food poisoning across Quebec.

Deploying all 26,000 members of a peacekeeping force in conflict-wracked Darfur will take many more months because of growing insecurity and logistical difficulties,...

Canada’s prime minister will likely schedule an election in October to try to shore up his minority government, a senior official in his office said Friday.

As of Friday, Aug. 29, 2008, at least 512 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan...

As of Friday, Aug. 29, 2008, at least 4,151 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press...

Brazil will spend US$160 million by the end of next year on the development of a nuclear-propelled submarine to protect the oil reserves found recently off its coast,...

A British court on Friday gave Foreign Secretary David Miliband a week to justify his decision to suppress secret documents that lawyers for a Guantanamo detainee argue...

Poland’s prime minister sought to reassure worried residents near the site of a planned U.S. missile defense base on Friday, pledging that they and the country...