With official visits overlapping in Afghanistan, Iran's outspoken president and the US defence secretary have accused each other of interfering in local...

A number of schools in the US were closed down on Wednesday after posted on a social networking...

The US Senate has adopted a draft bill to increase unemployment...

A United Nations report, which is still to be released, has found that up to half the food aid in Somalia is diverted to corrupt contractors, local UN workers and Islamic...

The BBC has reported that a man who has been subjected to claims he is the killer of James Bulger, has asked for the UK government to reveal who the real murderer...

Two UK women who were repeatedly raped and violently abused by their father have received an apology from 28 different public...

Federal prosecutors in the US have charged the owner of a California restaurant over alleged sales of whale meat, which was labelled...

A young actor who became a teen idol during his time as a Hollywood star, has died of unknown...

Politicians and police authorities in Ukraine are investigating the airline industry after an incident on the main...

The main airport in Bangkok has been locked down by soldiers as the Thai capital prepares for anti-government...

Stephen Dinan In a move to break with Republicans' big-spending past, House Republicans voted Thursday to ban their members this year from requesting earmarks, or pork-barrel spending projects. ...

Joseph Curl For all of President Obama's impassioned speeches trying to sell his health care reform plan to Americans, opposition to the $2 trillion proposal has remained nearly unchanged for...

CHISINAU -- The leader of Moldova's opposition Communist Party has accused Prime Minister Vlad Filat of smuggling cigarettes into neighboring Romania to pay for his election campaign last year,...

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. State Department says in its annual human rights report that many governments worldwide continued to perpetrate grave rights violations.The State Department highlighted three...

SAMARA, Russia -- Fans of the Krylya Sovetov (Wings of the Soviets) soccer club in the Russian city of Samara have ended their hunger strike after the team's players received their unpaid wages,...

YEREVAN -- An official in Turkey's ruling party says Ankara is extremely unlikely to ratify its fence-mending protocols with Armenia at this juncture, RFE/RL's Armenian Service reports.Justice and...

TBILISI -- Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk is in Georgia on a visit aimed at boosting economic ties, as he continues a tour of the South Caucasus.Tusk was due to meet President Mikheil Saakashvili...

announced last week that 8-year-old Princess Aiko was refusing to go to school because of bullying, he did more than just disclose a mundane problem facing a member...

Mr. President, thank you for that lovely introduction. And thank you for hosting me at such a world-class center for higher learning. It's been a long time since I've been back on campus. I was a...

CAPE TOWN, Mar 11, 2010 (IPS) - With the 15th-year review of the 1995 Beijing World Conference on Women taking place at the ongoing Commission on the Status of Women in New York, South African...

Malaysian police hunted for a man who barged into a kindergarten and hit three children on their heads with a hammer. The unidentified assailant climbed over a locked gate at the Sinario...

A pensioner has accused Queensland Health of "playing God" after he was forced to wait more than 200 days longer than he should have for urgent brain surgery. The state opposition has seized on the...

A Mississippi school decided not to host a dance after a lesbian student demanded she be able to attend with her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo. The Mississippi school district's policy requires that...

School authorities canceled the Itawamba Agricultural High School prom in Fulton, Miss., after Constance McMillen petitioned to bring a same-sex...

Madrid commuter trains six years ago Thursday, an outpouring of grief engulfed the city, with people flocking to makeshift shrines to leave tokens of...

Gibbs told the City of Westminster Magistrates' Court that the 30-year-old plotted with unidentified contacts in his home country, Pakistan, and Yemen over the past four years. He said Karim shared...

Washington (CNN) -- Health care reform takes center stage Thursday as President Obama and top congressional Democrats work behind closed doors to nail down a final...

"Merlin Olsen was a coach's player. Punctual, steady, gifted, a quiet leader, a player you could always count on," says his biography on the Pro Football Hall of Fame Web site. "He was...

Move is small device that looks like a microphone Starter kit begins at under $100 for a Move, a PlayStation eye camera and a game Sony president calls Move games "amazingly...

Betty White will officially host Saturday Night Live on May 8 This news comes after thousands of fans campaigned for White to get a hosting gig White's episode will also feature six former SNL women,...

A New York hospital could face a malpractice suit after it allegedly confused a living patient with a dead one. In a press release issued Thursday, personal injury lawyer David Perecman said the...

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Hundreds of women have taken to the streets of Nigeria's capital, Abuja, and the city of Jos in rallies against Sunday's massacre near Jos.The women, mostly dressed in black, demanded that the...

Aftershocks have been rocking the centre of the country since a massive tremor killed nearly 500 people less than two weeks ago. Conservative billionaire Sebastian Pinera took office just minutes...

A Foreign Office spokesman said Mr Miliband had told Dr Silajdzic that Dr Ganic's arrest "is a judicial matter, which in no way amounts to a diplomatic or political statement by the British...

The dramatic story of a US team in Iraq eclipsed Avatar at the event, picking up the two biggest awards of the night - best picture and best director for Kathryn Bigelow. HMV said sales of the...

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama pressed China on Thursday to move to a "more market-oriented exchange rate" in a speech where he laid out a plan to boost U.S. exports in the coming...

(CBS) More 12-year-olds in the U.S. get high by sniffing inhalants than by using marijuana, cocaine or hallucinogens combined, a new government report finds. A survey released by the Substance Abuse...

Leaders in the Senate indicated yesterday they will begin discussions within weeks about how to change filibuster rules -- which have allowed Republicans in the Senate to block legislation that does...

The FBI is investigating the case of an alleged al Qaeda member raised in New Jersey who's accused of trying to shoot his way out of a hospital in...

This June 22, 2001, file photo shows Pro Football Hall of Famer and former television actor Merlin Olsen speaking in Urbandale, Iowa. Olsen died Wednesday night, March 10, 2010, at a Los Angeles...

A former Bucks County high school teacher who had a five-month sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student - with the apparent knowledge of his peers - was sent to prison yesterday. Robert C....

NEW YORK - Without a TV show to do every night, Conan O'Brien is taking his act on the road. The former host of "The Tonight Show" announced a 30-city theater tour on Thursday. Sidekick...

FILE - This June 22, 2001, file photo shows Pro Football Hall of Famer and former television actor Merlin Olsen speaking in Urbandale, Iowa. Olsen died Wednesday night, March 10, 2010, at a Los...

610 WIP BOSS Marc Rayfield says that he was "misquoted throughout" the April Philly Sport magazine article in which he dissed 97.5 The Fanatic, which we reported on in yesterday's column. ...

This frame grab made from video provided by NBC.40 television shows Charles Mobley, father of Sharif Mobley, on Thursday March 11, 2010 outside his home in Buena, N.J. The FBI is investigating the...

Today's preliminary hearing for the couple accused of abandoning their four-year son after a Feb. 27 robbery of a South Street jewelry went awry has been continued until April 22. The hearing in...

Winners of Philadelphia's largest school science fair, the George Washington Carver Science Fair, have been announced. Best in Fair: Jamesa Hines - 12th grade, Girls' High School: "Immune...

The sign at right directs traffic to follow detour because the Ridge Avenue exit from Kelly Drive was being shut down. When this picture was taken the traffic was still allowed to access this ramp at...

Jeff Kinney had a clear template when it came time to adapt his wildly successful Diary of a Wimpy Kid children's books to the big screen. "I went right to A Christmas Story," says the...