Gustav became a hurricane again on Friday as it plowed toward Cayman Islands resorts, the start of a buildup that could take it to the U.S. Gulf Coast as a fearsome...

Police questioned Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Friday for a seventh time in connection with one of the multiple corruption probes that have driven him to...

A provincial health official says an unusually high number of people have fallen ill with the bacteria salmonellosis across Quebec.

Aid agencies say they can resume distributing food in Zimbabwe. Oxfam and Save the Children said Friday that a government ban had been lifted almost three months after...

A pickup truck crashed through the front window of a busy sushi restaurant in Canada, killing two women and injuring six, police said Friday.

The Anne Frank House museum said Friday it has restored 52 photographs and images the Jewish teenager pasted on the wall of her room to cheer herself up while hiding...

Europeans on Friday greeted Barack Obama’s acceptance of the U.S. Democratic nomination as a strong performance that boosted his campaign and went beyond mere...

A British court says the U.S. has agreed to hand over documents critical to the defense of a Guantanamo Bay detainee _ but only if he goes on trial.

The airline involved in last week’s plane disaster in Madrid considered switching aircraft at the last minute because of a mechanical problem but ultimately went...

A magnitude 5 earthquake struck Tibet on Friday near the border with Nepal, close to an area hit earlier in the week by a stronger quake that damaged hundreds of...

More than 24 militants were killed in two separate battles with U.S.-led coalition troops in Afghanistan, the coalition said Friday.

Predictions that Pervez Musharraf will have to flee Pakistan to escape treason charges have died along with the coalition that drove him from the presidency.

Iran has increased the number of operating centrifuges at its uranium enrichment plant to 4,000, a top official said Friday, pushing ahead with the nuclear program...

A priceless gold wreath has been unearthed in an ancient city in northern Greece, buried with human bones in a large copper vase that workers initially took for a land...

Vietnamese authorities denied Friday that they had used force or stun guns to break up a demonstration by Catholics who are demanding the return of land the Communist...

A Georgian Foreign Ministry official says Georgia is to recall all diplomatic staff from its embassy in Moscow because of the Russian military presence in Georgia.

The U.S. Embassy in Egypt has offered monetary compensation to the family of a man shot dead by American naval personnel in the Suez Canal.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic refused to enter pleas Friday to charges including genocide and crimes against humanity.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic refused Friday to enter pleas to 11 charges filed against him, including genocide and crimes against humanity.

Thai police have used tear gas to disperse a crowd of anti-government protesters besieging city police headquarters.