The European Union will impose harsher sanctions on Syria, a senior EU official said Wednesday, as Russia tried to broker talks between the vice president and

Three Indian lawmakers resigned Wednesday after they were filmed allegedly watching porn on a cell phone during a heated debate at a state assembly in

Australian airline Qantas has taken one of its A380 super-jumbos out of service after cracks were found in its wings.

President Cristina Kirchner on Tuesday said Argentina would take its complaint about alleged UK militarization of the disputed Falkland Islands to the United

A passenger plane made a successful emergency landing Tuesday morning in Belfast.

Iran's foreign ministry has dismissed the new U.S. sanctions on Tehran, saying they are part of a "psychological war" meant to sow discontent among Iranians.

Washington has long seen Latin America as its "backyard," a region where American diplomats often interfered in local politics and even helped topple governments. But a raft of

It was so waterlogged in Bulgaria Monday that a dam broke and submerged an entire village under eight feet (2.5 meters) of freezing water. Switzerland recorded

President Barack Obama has signed an executive order blocking all Iranian government and central bank assets in the US.

The Obama administration closed the U.S. Embassy in Damascus on Monday and pulled all American diplomats out of violence-wracked Syria as the U.S. stepped up

Norwegian gunman Anders Behring Breivik on Monday asked an Oslo court to free him immediately, saying his killing spree last year in which 77 people died was

Protesters and police engaged in sporadic clashes on Sunday at security headquarters in Cairo as violence raged into a fourth day.

Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega was hospitalized Sunday for what officials said was "hypertension with a possibility of a stroke," a police statement

Cuban leader Fidel Castro presented two volumes of his memoir entitled "Time Guerrilla" in a ceremony that marked his first public appearance since last April,

Outrage mounted Sunday after Russia and China blocked the UN Security Council's resolution on Syria, in what Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described as a

North Korea's hard-line communist regime is using old US-made target drones to develop unmanned attack aircraft, South Korea intelligence sources said Sunday.

The UN Security Council's failure to deliver a resolution on Syria has given President Bashar al Assad's regime a "license to kill," the opposition Syrian

The US is planning a major shift in its Afghanistan military strategy, with elite Special Forces troops taking greater responsibility from conventional units

Egypt is to try 44 people, including Americans, over the funding of non-governmental organizations, a judicial source said Sunday, a day after the US said aid

Iran has no intention of blockading the Strait of Hormuz, the sea route through which about a fifth of the world's oil is shipped, a senior Iranian diplomat

Iran began military exercises Saturday in the Strait of Hormuz, a show of force in the strategic oil shipping channel amid rising tensions over Tehran's

More than 300 people were killed in the Syrian protest hub of Homs, as a UN Security Council vote on a resolution to condemn the violence ended with a dual

An American woman who was kidnapped by Bedouin tribesmen in Egypt said her captors were "very nice" and she was treated like family.

US President Barack Obama on Saturday accused the Syrian regime of showing a "disdain for human life and dignity" after the massacre of hundreds of civilians

The Obama administration sought to reassure anxious European allies Saturday that budget cuts will not undercut the country's commitment to their security.

Pakistan's prime minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani, will travel Monday to Qatar for talks on the Taliban's plans to set up a representative office in the Gulf

Members of the UN Security Council will meet Saturday morning for a vote on a resolution condemning the violent repression in Syria, a diplomat said.

Talks between Greece and a delegation of international auditors over a new loan deal for the country are progressing, a Greek government official said Friday

Questions are being raised about the safety of a Pakistani doctor who might have played a vital, heroic-- and even unknowing-- role in the ultimate take-down of Usama bin Laden.

An activist representing relatives of women slain or missing in the border city of Ciudad Juarez has been attacked for the second time in two months.

A Brazilian computer hacker group Friday continued a wave of attacks begun earlier this week, hampering the websites of prominent financial institutions,

Five people were killed during clashes on the streets of Egypt Friday, as public anger mounted at the ruling military over the deaths of dozens of fans at a

Scientists scouring the waters near New Zealand have found a "supergiant prawn" at a depth of 4.35 miles.

A group of Russian scientists plumbing the frozen Antarctic in search of a lake buried in ice for tens of millions of years have failed to respond to

Iran launched an observation satellite into orbit Friday to mark the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, at a time of tensions over its nuclear

Bedouin tribesmen abducted two female American tourists and their Egyptian guide at gunpoint Friday but released them several hours later after negotiations

US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is expressing new concerns about Iran's underground nuclear program, this time telling Washington Post columnist David

The key question is how warm the water can get before the positive effects are reversed.

A cold snap kept Europe in its icy grip Thursday, pushing the death toll to 160 as countries from Italy to Ukraine struggled to cope with temperatures that

A second painting of the Mona Lisa, believed to have been created by one of Leonardo da Vinci's proteges while the model sat for the great artist, has been

Three days of mourning were being observed in Egypt following the deaths of at least 74 people in the worst outbreak of soccer-related violence in the

A Canadian woman held in connection with an audacious bid by a son of ex-Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi to smuggle himself into Mexico has been formally

More than 70 people were killed Wednesday as rioting fans attacked players and rival supporters at a grudge Egyptian soccer game, on what FIFA described as a

Some 2,000 police are hunkering down in hotels in Mexico's most violent city of Ciudad Juarez after a drug gang threatened to kill an officer per day if their

Dozens of people died in recent days as parts of Eastern Europe were subjected to freezing temperatures.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged members of the UN Security Council on Tuesday to adopt a resolution demanding an end to Syria's crackdown on

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed victory in Tuesday's primary vote of his right-wing Likud party over his sole rival, the hardline settler

In an effort to avoid sanctions, Iran renamed 90 cargo ships in its container line, which enables the country to circumvent sanctions on arms sales and the movement of nuclear

As of Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012, at least 1,766 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late