Northern Ireland’s long-feuding Protestant and Catholic leaders ended a five-month deadlock Tuesday by agreeing to form a Justice Department that will oversee the...

A 23-year-old man accused of being involved in a terror plot to kidnap Danish soldiers and use them as hostages has been acquitted by a court.

The U.S. Navy says a cargo ship has been hijacked off the Somalia coast _ the latest in a series of attacks by pirates operating out of the African country.

Another best-selling memoir, another battle over the line between truth and fiction.

Iraq’s prime minister has gone on national television to defend a security pact with the United States that his Cabinet has overwhelmingly approved.

Japanese police posted guards at the homes of former health ministry bureaucrats Tuesday after attacks on the families of ex-officials left two people dead and another...

Congolese rebels said Tuesday they were pulling back their forces to allow talks with the army, whose soldiers were fleeing and even fighting their own allies as any...

The World Council of Churches will help deliver Christmas messages and prayers of peace to the biblical birthplace of Jesus.

A new poll indicates Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Labour Party are closing in on Britain’s opposition Conservative Party.

NATO troops in eastern Afghanistan fired 20 artillery rounds at insurgents inside Pakistan in an attack the alliance said was coordinated with the government in...

Iraq said Tuesday that it will hold long-awaited provincial elections on Jan. 31, a step forward for U.S.-backed efforts to promote national reconciliation even though...

Northern Ireland’s long-feuding leaders have announced an end to their five-month deadlock in power-sharing negotiations.

Iraq says it will hold long awaited provincial elections on Jan. 31. They will be the first provincial elections since 2005, when Iraq’s insurgency was far...

Pirates who seized a Saudi supertanker loaded with $100 million in crude oil anchored the ship within sight of impoverished Somali fishing villages Tuesday, while the...

A Chinese migrant worker faces a possible death sentence after he said he stabbed a Canadian model to death in her Shanghai apartment building, his lawyer confirmed...

A Somali official is vowing to rescue a hijacked Saudi oil supertanker “by using force if necessary.”

Iraq’s top Shiite cleric said Tuesday that the U.S.-Iraqi security pact would only be viable if the country’s main political groups backed it and it...

European stock markets fell Tuesday following Asian losses amid further gloom about the state of the world economy and the banking system’s prospects in...

Both Georgia and Russia seriously violated international law during their war in August, rights group Amnesty International charged Tuesday.

Owners of a Saudi oil supertanker hijacked by Somali pirates grappled with how to respond Tuesday, as navies patrolling the region said they would not intervene to stop...