A Russian spacecraft carrying an American computer game designer and two crewmates has docked with the international space station.

Montenegro’s police have banned a pro-Serb rally later this week after violent clashes injured at least 34 people on Monday.

Pakistani police were questioning a 20-year-old U.S. citizen who was arrested close to the Afghan border, as new clashes in the region killed 17 militants, officials...

Syria’s official news agency says the nation will open an embassy in Lebanon for the first time since the two countries gained independence in the 1940s.

Scattered fighting in northern Sri Lanka killed 20 rebels and two soldiers as the government pressed ahead with its offensive against the Tamil Tigers, the military...

Asian markets soared for a second day Tuesday, led by a record 14 percent jump in Tokyo, after Wall Street rallied from its worst week ever on optimism that government...

Former presidential candidates Bob Dole and George McGovern both saw their presidential ambitions quashed in landslide elections.

Singapore’s High Court ruled that an opposition party and two of its leaders must pay $416,000 in defamation damages to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his...

The U.S.-led coalition says its forces have killed five militants in central Afghanistan.

China’s defense minister has demanded that the U.S. cancel a $6.5 billion arms sale to Taiwan, saying it created “obstacles” in relations between...

North Korea planned to resume dismantling its nuclear program Tuesday for the first time in two months, days after the United States removed the communist regime from a...

Eight Buddhist monks convicted of bombing a government building in Tibet during an anti-government uprising in March have been sentenced to prison, two of them for...

A U.S. Navy sailor has been charged with assaulting a prostitute while on shore leave in Australia’s biggest city last weekend, police and the U.S. Embassy said...

Police say an overcrowded, speeding bus has crashed into a stationary truck in northeastern India, killing 23 people and wounding 44 others.

Asian markets soared for a second day Tuesday, led by a stunning 13 percent jump in Tokyo, after Wall Street rallied from its worst week ever on optimism that...

Two Vietnamese journalists went on trial Tuesday in Hanoi for allegedly writing false information in reports about one of the country’s most high-profile...

Four former Khmer Rouge rebels were sentenced up to 20 years in prison Tuesday for their involvement in the murder of a British mine-clearing expert 12 years ago.

A security official says two foreign tourists fell to their deaths while parasailing south of Mexico’s resort town of Cancun.

The top war crimes judge for the former Yugoslavia on Monday urged the immediate arrest of the last two fugitives, Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic and ex-Croatian...

Japan’s stock market soared in early trading Tuesday, leading a second-day rally in Asian stocks after Wall Street staged a dramatic comeback from its worst week...