Prime Minister Kevin Rudd appointed Australia’s first U.S.-style national security adviser on Thursday as part of a major revamp of counterterrorism and national...

Asian markets were mixed Thursday as investors waited for key interest rate decisions in Europe later in the day and braced for more bad news from Friday’s U.S....

A Thai aviation official says Bangkok’s main Suvarnabhumi international airport will become fully operational on Friday.

The No. 2 federal prosecutor in a violent Mexican border city near Texas has been shot dead.

An officials says India suspects that two senior leaders of a banned Pakistani militant group masterminded the deadly Mumbai attacks.

A fire at the dormitory of a seafood company Thursday killed 11 workers and injured 10 others in eastern China, an official said.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper says an opposition plan to topple his government is a threat to Canada’s democracy.

The Meteorological Agency says an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 jolted the coast of northern Japan.

A letter signed by 112 former presidents and prime ministers urged U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday to return to Myanmar and press its military junta to...

By this point in his long life, Lonesome George should be at least a grandfather.

World stock markets rose Wednesday as investors brushed aside further dismal economic news ahead of key interest-rate decisions in Europe and the closely watched U.S....

British police say a trash collector can hold on to the mound of mutilated cash he found stuffed into a wastebasket in the English town of Lincoln earlier this year.

Authorities in Yemen the bodies of 24 Somalis have washed ashore following an accident involving a boat trying to smuggle migrants.

The U.S. government has finally released the first part of a $400 aid package to support Mexico’s police and soldiers in their fight against drug cartels.

Push has come to shove for Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Brazilian authorities say tens of thousands of flood victims have begun returning home in southern Brazil.

The U.S. government was finally releasing $400 million on Wednesday to support Mexico’s police and soldiers in their fight against drug cartels.

An Afghan teenager who lost both legs in a cluster bomb explosion helped persuade his country to change its stance and join nearly 100 nations in signing a treaty...

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court cautioned the U.N. Wednesday to be prepared for reprisals in Darfur if he obtains a warrant to arrest...

In the first stage of the multi-year Merida Initiative, the U.S. is providing $400 million to Mexico and $65 million to Central America to fight drug gangs. The U.S....