A jury in Martinique has found a man guilty of murder after he set his ex-girlfriend on fire in front of town hall three years ago.

As of Friday, May 16, 2008, at least 431 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, May 16, 2008, at least 4,079 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

A Venezuelan opposition leader is demanding that President Hugo Chavez explain accusations of close ties between his government and Colombian rebels.

Exit polls show that Dominican President Leonel Fernandez could secure a first-round electoral victory.

American experts are monitoring nuclear facilities in China’s earthquake zone, officials said Friday, after France’s nuclear watchdog reported that some had...

France criticized Myanmar’s military junta on Friday for refusing to allow a French Navy ship with 1,500 tons of aid for victims of Cyclone Nargis to deliver food...

A group of men posing as federal police agents helped six alleged drug-trafficking hit men escape from a Mexican prison Friday.

Canadian energy officials Friday scrapped development of a nuclear reactor project to produce radioactive isotopes for the diagnoses of cancer and other illnesses,...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi led a bipartisan congressional delegation to Israel Friday to mark the 60th anniversary of Israel’s founding.

A judicial probe into the assassination of a Roman Catholic lawyer in Northern Ireland reported Friday that it has lost sensitive computer data about the...

A powerful aftershock knocked out roads and communications in some of the most quake-ravaged parts of central China on Friday, as emergency crews rescued more than 30...

A top Cuban official said Friday that Raul Castro’s government would consider loosening Internet restrictions on ordinary citizens newly allowed to purchase...

President Leonel Fernandez was favored to win a third term on Friday, despite concerns over long-serving politicians in this Caribbean nation with a painful history of...

More emergency food aid is on its way to Haiti.

In a May 11 story about Sudan severing ties with Chad, The Associated Press, relying on a state television report, erroneously reported the dollar value of a reward...

Bi Kaiwei and his wife, Meilin, stopped having children after their daughter was born, taking to heart China’s one-child policy and its slogan “Have fewer...

Iran angrily blamed the United States on Friday after at least three of its diplomats were wounded in a Baghdad shooting, saying the Americans are encouraging attacks...

Pope Benedict XVI has written a special prayer for Chinese Catholics who face “daily trials” in the officially atheistic country, the Vatican said Friday.

European and Latin American leaders sought to unite against poverty, global warming and high food prices on Friday, but their summit was clouded by a feud between...