Ukraine’s prime minister said Tuesday the country cannot afford an early election in the face of a battered stock market, one of the world’s highest...

Nearly 190,000 people are reported to have fled fighting between Pakistani troops and militants near the border with Afghanistan, the United Nations said Tuesday as...

British students will have one less test to take. Education Secretary Ed Balls said Tuesday the government was scrapping its national testing of 14-year-olds in math,...

Police in northern Greece say they have arrested two men, including a museum employee, for allegedly trying to sell dozens of illegally excavated antiquities.

Swaziland’s government banned independent civil rights groups from meeting later this week, saying Tuesday that the gathering could be destabilizing for...

A ginseng injection contaminated by bacteria caused the deaths of three people using the medicine to treat thrombosis and heart disease, state media reported Tuesday.

Pakistani police were questioning a 20-year-old U.S. citizen who was arrested close to the Afghan border, officials said Tuesday as new clashes in the area killed 17...

In a rare gesture, Turkey’s justice minister apologized Tuesday to the family of an inmate who was allegedly beaten to death in Istanbul and said 19 prison...

Indian church leaders said Tuesday that Christians killed in recent clashes were “sacrificial lambs” targeted by hard-line Hindus seeking an advantage in...

The prime minister of Spain, which played a key role in persuading the European Union to lift diplomatic sanctions against Cuba, has accepted an invitation from...

Iraq’s senior Kurdish leader met with Turkish officials Tuesday in Baghdad, a news agency reported, in a Turkish bid to encourage Iraqi Kurds to crack down on...

Iran’s former nuclear negotiator says his country wants talks on its nuclear program to continue if Western countries are willing to return to the negotiating...

Heavy fighting in eastern Congo has driven at least 1,700 people from a refugee camp, the U.N. said Tuesday, and an aid group said a team of its medical workers has...

Soldiers of a regional government, with guns blazing, freed a Panama-flagged cargo ship Tuesday that pirates had held off the Somali coast for five days, according to...

Russia and the United States must cooperate in tackling global threats despite their differences over Georgia and other issues, a key U.S. congressman said Tuesday.

U.S. military successes in Iraq have forced sophisticated and well-trained insurgents to pour into Afghanistan instead, part of the reason violence has spiked in...

A faulty computer unit likely caused a Qantas jetliner to experience two terrifying midair plunges within minutes last week, an Australian investigator said Tuesday.

NATO says three of its soldiers were killed when their vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan.

U.S. military successes in Iraq have forced sophisticated and well-trained insurgents to pour into Afghanistan instead, the Afghan defense minister said Tuesday.

An Afghan official says that a roadside bomb apparently intending to hit NATO troops instead hit a civilian vehicle and killed nine Afghans.