The Pentagon said Tuesday it has dropped war-crimes charges against five Guantanamo Bay detainees after the former prosecutor in their…
Hurricane Omar was quickly moving away from the northern Leeward Islands early Thursday after passing through the area as a…
Leaders of the Group of Eight major industrial countries said Wednesday they will meet “in the near future” for a…
Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Wednesday urged Eastern European leaders to shift their military efforts from Iraq to Afghanistan, where…
The world economy will slow sharply this year and next, with the United States likely sliding into recession reflecting mounting…
Pakistani President, Asif Ali Zardari, is the most recent public figure to have a fatwa issued against him. The fatwa,…
KABUL, Afghanistan — Pakistani troops fired at American reconnaissance helicopters patrolling the Afghan-Pakistan border Thursday, heightening tensions as the U.S.…
Cries of adulation — and hunger — followed Haitian-born singer Wyclef Jean and actor Matt Damon as they toured flood-ravaged…
Usain Bolt returned to Jamaica this week after heading to Brussels, Belgium for the Van Damme memorial last Friday. Bolt captured…
Nigeria’s president called Thursday for help finding a way to fingerprint crude oil stocks in order to combat the theft…
Satellite images taken at night show heavily Sunni Arab neighborhoods of Baghdad began emptying before a U.S. troop surge in…
A farmer who threw the body of his fired worker into a lions enclosure is out on parole after less…
Snoop Dogg has gone Bollywood. He does the rap to open the movie “Singh is Kinng,” a Bollywood flick that…
Israel will almost surely boycott the next U.N. racism conference in Geneva, its ambassador said Wednesday, warning that the meeting…
South African president-in-waiting Jacob Zuma made a bid Monday to get corruption and fraud charges against him thrown out of…
Zimbabwe’s opposition party said Thursday that four of its activists were killed in a firebombing near Harare amid growing concerns…
