NATO has insisted allies should “do better” in the global war against...

A US federal judge has delayed the planned execution of a US Army soldier convicted of multiple murders and...

In India, police searching for clues to a last week's terrorist attack have found two bombs at a Mumbai railway station, nearly a week after they were left there by...

American intelligence agencies have determined that former officers from Pakistan's Army and its powerful Inter-Services Intelligence agency helped train the Mumbai...

Pakistan's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Abdullah Hussain Haroon has told the US television network CBS that Pakistan has been handing over foreigners caught in Pakistan, who have been suspected of carrying out terrorist...

The outgoing US administration has warned that the world must step up its efforts to develop the kind of clean technologies needed to drastically cut emissions blamed for global...

Russian President Dmitri Medvedev will arrive in India on Thursday to renew ties between the...

At least 11 people were killed and 39 others injured after bombs hit a primary school and a checkpoint in the Iraqi cities of Nineveh and...

More than 90 nations have signed a treaty to ban cluster bombs, while influential arms producers, including the United States, Russia and China, have decided to remain outside the...

Russia has confirned it will send a warship through the Panama Canal for the first time since World War...

India has said it will act decisively against the architects of the Mumbai terror strikes whose controllers are in...

I really like what Tina Brown is doing at The Daily Beast. There's no hint of the crowd at the Beast - it's all Tina's sensibility, her wit and judgment. So I'm thrilled to now be contributing to...

Prince Friedrich zu Solms-Baruth III. Photo / AP BERLIN - Friedrich zu Solms-Baruth was swept up by the Gestapo the day after a failed 1944 bombing attempt on Hitler and thrown into the secret...

Jim Press, president and vice chairman of Chrysler. Photo / AP DETROIT - Worried about their jobs and warned that the cost of bankruptcy could be a depression, hundreds of leaders of the United Auto...

WASHINGTON - New claims for jobless benefits fell unexpectedly last week but the number of people continuing to receive government aid reached a 26-year high and large companies announced more job...

HEBRON, West Bank - Scores of militant Jewish settlers have been cleared from a disputed house in the biblical city of Hebron. Braving a barrage of rocks, eggs and chemicals, security forces...

The company hopes to enter the off-grid solar panel market with an array at a house in Senegal. Photo: Courtesy, Eytan Heller Silicon panels, the first generation, rely on a rapidly disappearing...

Coldplay have won seven nominations for 2009's Grammy awards, leading a strong British showing at US music's most prestigious awards ceremony. The record of the year award will fall into British...

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has asked for a temporary suspension of parliament to delay a vote that could topple his minority government. Mr Harper has begun talks with Michaelle Jean,...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Presidency Council has approved a security pact with the United States that paves the way for a complete U.S. troop pullout by the end of 2011, a spokesman for the council...

In the first exchanges, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 79.01 points (0.92 per cent) to 8,512.68 following two strong rallies. The Nasdaq composite retreated 19.94 points (1.34 per cent) to...

Rajan Kamble, a maintenance staff at the Taj Mahal hotel, died on Wednesday, exactly a week after gunmen attacked several places in Mumbai including two plush hotels, killing 171 people and wounding...

+ ] By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Measles deaths have plummeted by 74 percent globally this decade thanks to a concerted effort to vaccinate children in Africa and other hard-hit regions,...

It is hope this will free up cash flow as part of a radical capital restructuring to keep the struggling investment group alive. In return for the $150 million lifeline tossed to Babcock yesterday,...

The Senate inquiry into academic freedom and bias has ended as it began with government members dismissing allegations of systemic left-wing bias at universities and schools, but with the minority...

On Wednesday evening, the online magazine Slate quietly posted Spitzer's first column, headlined "Too Big Not To Fail." It argued against costly economic government bailouts to huge financial...

WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (IPS) - One of the biggest foreign policy challenges facing the incoming administration of President-elect Barack Obama will be reinvigorating what looks like a completely stalled...

The mother of Shannon Matthews was facing a "substantial" jail sentence today after being found guilty of kidnapping her daughter. Karen Matthews conspired with her partner's uncle Michael Donovan...

Nine paratroopers have denied indecently assaulting a fellow soldier in Afghanistan, a court spokesman said today. The servicemen will face a court martial next April following the...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Top U.S. phone company AT&T Inc. said it would eliminate 12,000 jobs, or about 4 percent of its workforce, a fresh wave of cuts to cope with an economic downturn that has...

Despite terrorists, life goes on.The US National Intelligence Council's report on global trends, published this month, predicts that the terrorist organisation al Qaeda "may decay sooner" than many...

The cruise ship Nautica at Port Chalmers in January this year. Photo / Gregor Richardson Ordered to get inside and stay down, tourist Clyde Thornburg heard the pirates' rifle shots hit the side of...

Thai Airways said it would begin operating outbound flights from Bangkok overnight. Photo / AP BANGKOK - Thailand's battered political parties tried to find a replacement for the ousted prime...

JIDDA, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia deployed some 100,000 security personnel to keep order as Muslim pilgrims flooded into the holy city of Mecca in preparation for the annual hajj, beginning...

MURDOCH'S Flagship, a historical account of the first 25 years of The Australian newspaper, was launched last night at Central Queensland University's Sydney...

FRENCH President Nicolas Sarkozy last night unveiled a stimulus plan worth E26 billion ($51billion) to help France resist the global economic...

'Surprise led to swift evacuation' Channel 2 reported that there was an exchange of fire heard in Hebron, potentially involving settlers and Palestinians. The station also reported that...

For years, Israel has urged the European Union to stop distinguishing between the political and military wings of terrorist organizations, arguing that the two are inseparable. Thus it comes as a...

To lose one awards season to industrial action was bizarre; but to lose a second would represent Bracknell-ish carelessness. It could be just about to happen, though, thanks to the real-life...

Ministers have moved to close loopholes that have let popular state schools in England select pupils by the back door. An audit of arrangements in schools had found that more than half which set...

Dec. 3: NBC’s Jim Miklaszewski discusses how the Obama administration will handle interrogations of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention...

The Syrian ambassador to Egypt has left Cairo in what some observers note is an indication of tension in Syrian-Egyptian...

Janet Napolitano wasn't the only female governor Ed Rendell was heard sizing up over an open mike at Tuesday's National Governors Conference.He also opined about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, praising her...

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith today defended the decision to call in the police to investigate leaks from the Home Office. In a Commons statement, Mrs Smith again insisted she had no prior knowledge...

A Thai Airways plane is the first to land at Suvarnabhumi after the airport protesters lifted their seige. Photo / AP Local Thai community leaders met their country's representatives in Auckland last...

The retention of Charlie Weis as Notre Dame's football coach is causing upheaval among fans and writers, as much for Weis' supposedly aloof personality as for his dismal recent record. In the last...

After nearly two weeks on the market, the much-anticipated BlackBerry Storm has lived up to its name, with longtime BlackBerry loyalists frustrated by the smartphone's bugginess, sluggishness and...

THE Sydney Morning Herald's editor, Alan Oakley, yesterday became the fourth editor of a major Australian metropolitan newspaper to depart his job in as many months, as Fairfax Media faced a new...

Tweeter, a national electronics chain that entered the Philadelphia market in 1996 by buying high-end rival Bryn Mawr Stereo, abruptly converted its bankruptcy case to Chapter 7 liquidation Tuesday....

Mumbai attacks. Government sources cited intelligence "inputs" that militants may have sneaked into India to try and hijack civilian aircraft. The Bureau of Civil Aviation Security, which is in...