No Texas or U.S. motor safety officers were on duty when an unsafe bus crossed the border hours before a fatal crash, says National Transportation Safety Board...

The U.S. military has started a media campaign to educate soldiers about working with electricity as part of an effort to prevent future electrocutions in Iraq.

A Serbian court has freed a former diplomat suspected of helping a student facing assault charges in the United States flee to Serbia, a court official said Tuesday.

The Internal Revenue Service, seeking to make cash more available during the current credit crunch, has issued a rule making it easier for U.S. corporations to bring...

Germany has returned over 20 pounds of highly enriched uranium fuel to the U.S. for safeguarding from terrorists or potential misuse.

The US coalition says its forces have killed 43 militants in southern Afghanistan.

A small group of Chinese muslims being held by the U.S. at Guantanamo Bay want a federal judge to order their release into the United States.

The U.S. military says an American soldier has been fatally shot by an al-Qaida in Iraq extremist. An Iraqi policeman was also killed in the fighting.

A top Iranian military official on Tuesday urged Iraq to reject a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security deal, calling the agreement a “disgrace.”

Iraq’s foreign minister says the U.S. and Iraq are close to a deal to keep U.S. troops in this country next year but it will take “bold political...

Iraqi police say that two blasts in front of the Foreign Ministry have wounded at least five people. The attacks have occurred as a top U.S. official is visiting...

The United States will continue its troop presence in Kosovo until at least late next year, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said just before he arrived here Tuesday,...

Japan’s central bank left its key interest rate unchanged Tuesday amid heightened anxiety that the U.S. credit crisis was quickly spreading from Wall Street to...

A Colombian right-wing paramilitary member has pleaded guilty in the U.S. to attempting to acquire anti-aircraft missiles, grenade launchers and other powerful weapons...

The government’s $700 billion rescue, aimed at rebuilding economic confidence, appeared to sound a global alarm instead on Monday, triggering a fearful...

As of Monday, Oct. 6, 2008, at least 4,178 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Muslim honor killings of daughters came to Georgia last month.A Pakistani immigrant who strangled his daughter because she wanted to end her arranged marriage did it...

The United States and Lebanon on Monday set up a joint military commission to bolster military cooperation _ a move that follows the first visit by the newly elected...

An estimated 17,000 deceased U.S. prisoners of war could be awarded Purple Hearts under a new Pentagon policy announced Monday.

Stock markets slumped worldwide Monday, some marking record one-day drops, on fears the global financial crisis will worsen and hit the wider economy despite bank...