A group of prominent African-Americans has challenged Cuba’s race record, accusing the island nation of harassing its black citizens and cracking down on civil...

Mourners in the western Venezuelan state of Tachira on Wednesday laid to rest the body of a university student who was shot dead at a protest while unarmed police...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan, which is hearing the controversial NRO ordinance case on a daily basis, has asked the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to submit a...

The bull was badly outnumbered, and while its muscular body, thick black hide and rock-hard horns offered significant advantages, this was not a brawl the animal was...

Mexico is working to get ousted President Manuel Zelaya out of the Brazilian Embassy, a refuge where he has spent nearly three months in a failed effort to get his...

Nicolas Sarkozy today voiced sympathy for Switzerland’s controversial decision to ban the building of Muslim minarets, calling on religious practitioners to avoid...

During yesterday’s hearings before the House and Senate Armed Service Committees, General Stanley McChrystal and Ambassador Karl Eikenberry presented a unified...

Three women filed a lawsuit in a European court against Ireland’s abortion ban Wednesday, claiming the government violates the human rights of pregnant women by...

President Barack Obama is accepting the world’s best-known peace award as a wartime president, an incongruity that he will directly speak to when he receives the...

The process of carving a new state of Telangana out of the existing Andhra Pradesh will soon begin, Home Minister P. Chidambaram announced late on Wednesday...

State officials issued a warning today about a scam targeting unemployment benefits deposited onto debit cards. Laid off workers are getting text messages on their...

A recent pay increase for Afghan troops and police appears to have resulted in a surge of applicants, said the top U.S. military official for Afghan security...

Until recently you would never have seen women presenting television programmes dressed from head to toe in the niqab or burqa. But on the Saudi religious channel Awtan...

Five young Muslim American men from the Washington suburbs who disappeared late last month were detained in Pakistan on Wednesday in a police raid on a house linked to...