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

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

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...

Pakistani police have reported a militant incident at the offices of a US-based Christian aid...

In Myanmar, a new law may force the National League for Democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, out of the...

Bangladesh has been accused of starving and blocking medical treatment for Rohingya...

China has been given direct access to the Sea of Japan for the first time since the 19th century, thanks to a lease deal with North...

(RTTNews) - Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration announced that an ongoing review of the safety of oral bisphosphonate drugs has found no link between the drug use and a risk of thigh...

The Indian Point nuclear power plant is safe. So says the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which noted that the facility last year "operated in a manner that preserved public health and safety and...

Last week, President Obama's advisers told reporters that they'd soon recommend that the president propose a "deal" with Congress on the Guantanamo Bay detainees. Obama would drop his insistence that...

Congratulations to Adam Brodsky for having the guts to say what needs to be said ("Hike MTA Fares Now," PostOpinion, March 8). I was always of the opinion that taking the bus or subway is one of the...

'We allow the insurance indus try to run wild in this coun try," President Obama declared on Monday. "We can't have a system that works better for the insurance companies than it does for the...

I think both sides are wrong. They both assume that there exists some optimum course that will produce happy results. But sometimes in politics no course leads to success. Disaster lies ahead...

MOSCOW: Jordan's King Abdullah II will discuss arms contracts and the Middle East peace process with Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev Thursday, news agencies reported. "The situation in the Middle...

WASHINGTON - On Christmas Day, a passenger on a Northwest Airlines flight bound for Detroit tried to blow up the plane with plastic explosives in his underwear. He failed, yet the very attempt shook...

The Hump Restaurant is seen in Santa Monica, Calif., Wednesday, March 10, 2010. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Reed Saxon) LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors filed charges Wednesday against a sushi chef and a...

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou addresses the media after a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the chancellery in Berlin, Friday, March 5, 2010. Papandreou met with Merkel on...

Three Labour MPs and a Conservative peer are due in court later to face charges in relation to their Parliamentary expenses.Jim Devine, Elliot Morley and David Chaytor, along with Lord Hanningfield,...

Election laws announced by Burma's military rulers have provoked a storm of condemnation.A United States State Department spokesman, Philip Crowley, said it made a mockery of the democratic process....

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has arrived in India for talks expected to focus on arms and energy contracts.The two sides are due to sign two deals worth over $10bn in defence and civilian...

Sex abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Church are proof that that "the Devil is at work inside the Vatican", according to the Holy See's chief...

A MAN jailed for a crash of his 1996 Toyota Camry that killed three people is seeking a new trial in light of Toyota's recent...

By Stefano Ambrogi London - Two women who were repeatedly raped and violently abused by their father, bearing him seven children over 25 years, were given a formal apology by child protection...

By Crispian Balmer Paris - Former supermodel Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has said her husband, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, would never cheat on her and has described their love story as a "real...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Wednesday passed a $149 billion package of jobless aid and tax breaks, as Democrats continued efforts to lower the 9.7 percent unemployment rate before...

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National School Standards on the Horizon? (AP) The Kansas City school board narrowly approved a plan Wednesday night to close nearly half of the district's schools in a desperate bid to avoid a...

New Device May Prevent Heart Attacks (AP) A troublingly high number of U.S. patients who are given angiograms to check for heart disease turn out not to have a significant problem, according to the...

She married young and badly. She bounced checks at Pizza Hut and the grocery. She hit the bottle to excess sometimes, talked to her cats, and once attempted suicide. And, as "JihadJane,"...

Police were searching Wednesday for an Upper Darby resident wanted on child-pornography charges.Jose Oyarzun, 40, is accused of possessing and distributing the illicit material after police...

The Eagles announced they're signing Colts free agent corner/safety Marlin Jackson to a 2-year deal, which sources close to the situation said could be worth $6 million if he is a healthy starter...

Athletes and their WAGs WAGs (or Wags) is an acronym used particularly by the British tabloid press to describe the wives and girlfriends of high-profile football players. But the acronym has...

Ted Starkey The Capitals moved a step closer to clinching their third straight Southeast Division title Wednesday night at Verizon Center, as Tomas Fleischmann's goal with 1:40 left in overtime gave...

News ) confirmed Wednesday that it has been approached by third parties about a possible acquisition of the company. The Franklin, Tennessee-based company also said it has formed a special committee...

Corporate Israel is starting to discover the hidden business potential of Israeli Arabs - largely virgin territory to most major companies, with the noteworthy exception of the cellular service...

THERMAL, California - They say crime doesn't pay. For one robber in California, it did - but not much. Authorities in Riverside County say a woman with a gun robbed 11 customers at a market and got...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Minorities make up nearly half the children born in the U.S., part of a historic trend in which minorities are expected to become the U.S. majority over the next 40...

Lawyer kept internal documents that he says could be damaging to Toyota Biller says he quit because of what he alleges were "criminal acts" by Toyota He said Toyota settled one lawsuit to...

Yangon, Myanmar (CNN) -- Myanmar's ruling junta announced Wednesday a new election law that disqualifies pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from participating in upcoming national...

(CNN) -- A Texas man who became enraged when a flight attendant refused to serve him alcohol and spent part of a flight locked in the lavatory has pleaded guilty to interfering with an airline flight...

Gordon Brown says the criticism he has received for visiting Afghanistan a day after giving evidence to the Iraq war inquiry is "incredibly unfair".The Conservatives said Saturday's trip...

The practice of ennobling people from outside Parliament in order to make them ministers should be "exceptional", a cross-party group of MPs has said.The Public Administration Committee...

Chilean tycoon Sebastian Pinera is due to be sworn in as president of the country, which was recently devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami.Mr Pinera not only faces the challenge of...

Sony has unveiled its contender to the market leading Nintendo Wii with its new motion-control video system called PlayStation Move.Details were revealed during the Game Developers Conference in San...

The Red Cross is facing a shortfall of $23.9m (£15.9m) for its programmes in Zimbabwe, which include home care for those infected by HIV. Hunger is impacting the efforts to provide anti-retroviral...