The race for the Republicans presidential nomination took a turn on Tuesday night, with initial returns from a non-binding primary in Missouri and a political caucus in...

Argentina will make a formal complaint to the United Nations concerning British military movement near the Falkland Islands,...

A judge in Ecuador today ordered two reporters to pay $1 million each to President Rafael Correa after convicting them of defamation for saying he knew of his older brother...

Google has unveiled its new Solve for X initiative, an online forum that will encourage "moonshot thinking" to solve some of the world's most insurmountable...

NEW YORK — Duane Jackson, the street vendor who notified the police of a car bomb in Times Square in 2010 plans to run for Congress,...

Members of Congress have directed over $300 million in earmarks and other spending provisions to public projects that are next to or near their own properties,...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Rangers at South Africa's Kruger National Park, a major safari destination...

Europe’s paparazzi and prurient tattlers received a shot in the arm today as Europe’s court of human rights rejected a privacy complaint by...

Jerusalem police have said they believe Jewish extremists are responsible for tagging a school and a monastery in Israel with death threats,...

As Aung San Suu Kyi campaigned in Burma, drawing crowds of thousands of supporters, the United States announced the easing of one of its many sanctions against the country,...

A federal appeals court in California today has struck down the state's 2008 ban on same-sex marriage as unconstitutional, allowing proponents of the ban to take their case to the Supreme...

Florence Green, the world’s last known veteran of the First World War, passed away at the age of 110,...

Amgen says that its bone drug can also help people suffering from prostate cancer. But the Food and Drug Administration is questioning whether the drug provides "an...

Karen Handel has resigned as Susan G. Komen for the Cure's Vice President for...

Two explosions struck near army and air force bases near the Nigerian city of Kaduna on Tuesday, the latest in a series of blasts to hit Nigeria’s northern region....

BERLIN, Germany — Two men were arrested in Germany today on suspicion of spying on opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government.

The two...

George Boley, the former Liberian rebel leader, is to be deported from the US over his role in the West African nation’s civil war in the 1990s.

A US...

President Obama has reversed his position on so-called "super PACs," which are political actions committees that can receive unlimited donations. Super PACs were...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says he has told Syrian President Bashar al Assad that Moscow wants to see peace in the Arab world and a solution to Syria's crisis...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The body of a Chinese worker who went missing in a rebel attack on a work camp in Sudan has been found,...

In Nigeria, gunmen attacked a police station in the northern city of Kano Monday night, where a curfew is still in place following recent violence claimed by the Islamist...

Former Nabors Industries Ltd. CEO Eugene Isenberg has turned down a golden parachute worth $100 million and $7 million in deferred bonus payments following criticism that his...

Some 3,500 soldiers clashed with Brazilian police, who have been on strike outside the assembly in the state capital of Salvador since last week,...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is keeping a closer eye on “sovereign citizen” extremists,...