The U.S. sent a letter to all of countries in South American guaranteeing that the U.S. military will not use Colombian bases to invade neighboring countries, El...

Is Barack Obama making a habit of spurning Scandinavian royals? The president caused some annoyance to Norwegians last week when he turned down lunch with the king...

Conservative billionaire Sebastian Pinera led Chile’s presidential vote and is seen the favorite to win a run-off and lead a political shift in Latin...

Car bombs ripped through downtown Baghdad early Tuesday, killing five and wounding at least 16 people in the latest attack near government buildings in the Iraqi...

A smattering of villages and towns in rich, independence-minded Catalonia gave a lukewarm embrace to the idea of breaking away from Spain in a rare vote Sunday at the...

Ever since Syria and Turkey lifted their visa restrictions in September, Turkish visitors have poured into this picturesque northern city. Hawkers in Aleppo’s ancient...

A car bombing outside a politician’s home in central Pakistan has killed 22 people and wounded 70 others. Tuesday’s attack in Dera Ghazi Khan town in...

Twelve players of the Eritrean national football squad have gone missing in Kenya, the Council of East and Central Africa Football Associations (CECAFA) general...

When India exploded a thermonuclear device in 1998 we felt that we have become a member of the nuclear club.Soon Mr.Santhanam came out saying that the thermo nuclear...

Bank robbers have threatened tellers with knives, shot their way into banks and tunnelled up into vaults. But one woman in southern Russia chose a more peaceful method:...

At age 45, after giving birth to 13 children in her village of thatch roofs and bare feet, Beatrice Adongo made a discovery that startled her: birth control. “I...

Within minutes of our arrival in Tuwani, in the south Hebron hills of the West Bank, an army Jeep rolled into the village and shattered the mid-morning tranquillity....

At least eight people have been killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, officials say. The blast happened near a hotel in Wazir Akbar Khan...

Fidel Castro says President Barack Obama’s “friendly smile and African-American face” are hiding Washington’s sinister intentions for Latin...

With the threat of U.S.-backed sanctions looming over this isolated Red Sea nation, Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki recently summed up his defiant attitude toward the...

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez has received death threats over a radio frequency while commuting to work by helicopter and her Cabinet chief said Monday...

Robert Gabriel Mugabe has decided that any concessions given to the MDC with regard to the coalition to government will be on his terms, his timings and not worth the...

Anas bin Saleem, a 12-year-old American, spends seven hours a day sitting cross-legged on the floor memorizing the Quran. He is one of thousands of foreigners who have...

New York bankruptcy court to hear former owner’s updated rescue plan today. Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), in its efforts to gain control over LyondellBasell, is...

Brazilian analysts say that the political coincidences of the two-day Mercosur presidential summit held in Montevideo last week overshadowed the lack of relevant...