Stripped naked to the waist, she begs for mercy as she is savagely beaten by a lynch mob in the middle of the street. Alejandra Maria Torres was part of an armed gang...

A new player has emerged in the roiling political theater of the Caucasus: the tiny, destitute Pacific island nation of Nauru, which on Tuesday became the fourth...

President Obama gave Wall Street bosses a dressing down last night as he demanded more help to get America’s economy back on its feet. The tense White House...

By 10 a.m. this morning, the day looked bright. The sun was shining on Kabul, taking the chill out of the bones. I’d had my breakfast of cereal and tea and read...

Several former officials of the Ecuadorian government had ties with Colombia’s Marxist guerrillas, a commission named by President Rafael Correa conceded Tuesday....

China is preparing to build three times as many nuclear power plants in the coming decade as the rest of the world combined, a breakneck pace with the potential to help...

The recent Swiss referendum vote to ban the building of minarets seems to confirm the trend of Europeans becoming increasingly strident in their attempts to...

As Sudan approaches its fifth anniversary of peace, the fragile accord which has held the north and the south together is unravelling and Africa’s biggest country...

Concern over the whereabouts of the Lockerbie bomber has eased after East Renfrewshire council was able to contact Abdelbaset al-Megrahi this morning. Journalists from...

In our house I normally have one of the 24-hour news channels on during the day and keep an eye on things as they pan out in the world - and yesterday I saw a short...

A key plank of President Obama’s strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan was in danger of giving way last night after a refusal by Pakistan to take on a top Taleban...

Members of a Sierra Leone traditional group have besieged a woman’s house and stopped her from going home after she launched a legal bid to become a...

There are a million questions one could ask of the woman sitting on the edge of a hospital bed in southern Sri Lanka, but for now only one of them matters: is she Padma...

A landowner who had his land expropriated by the Chavez government and who recently called off a prolonged hunger strike in a long-running dispute with the National...

For many months now, American and European intelligence agencies have been trading theories about a spare, two-page document written in Persian that, if genuine, would...

By 35 votes to 27, the Brazilian Senate approved today, December 15, the entry of Venezuela to Mercosur. The issue caused a dispute between the opposition and the...

Ongoing violence between Mexico’s drug cartels has killed at least 50 people in Mexico’s north in recent days, as the governor’s house and a police...

Opposition politicians from the left denounced the comments by the minister for families, Nadine Morano, as racist. The highly outspoken Morano, who is a member of...

It liberates. It represses. It is a prayer. It is a prison. It protects. It obliterates. Rarely in human history has a piece of cloth been assigned so many roles. Been...

On Sunday, Islamic militants stoned a man to death for adultery in front of hundreds of local residents in Somalia. The man, named Mohamed Abukar Ibrahim, 48, was...