WASHINGTON--The United States on Tuesday denied reports it had offered Iran a prisoner swap to retrieve former US Marine Amir Hekmati, who has...
WASHINGTON--The United States on Tuesday denied reports it had offered Iran a prisoner swap to retrieve former US Marine Amir Hekmati, who has...
KABUL, Dec--The last French troops in Afghanistan held a ceremony in Kabul on Wednesday to mark the end of their deployment after NATO...
LOS ANGELES---A magnitude-3.9 earthquake shook an area south of Los Angeles on Tuesday, authorities said. There were no immediate reports of damage or...
HONG KONG--Hong Kong began culling thousands of chickens Wednesday after the deadly H7N9 virus was discovered in poultry imported from China, days after...
BEIJING---A Chinese court will give the parents of a teenager wrongfully executed for murder and rape 18 years ago more than two million...
WELLINGTON---An Australian and two German climbers were missing Wednesday on New Zealand's Mount Cook with police saying foul weather was delaying any chance...
TAJI BASE, Iraq--As Sergeant Michael Lair went from base to base in 2011, moving American gear to Kuwait ahead of the US withdrawal...
MOSCOW---Russia expressed regret at the failure of the UN Security Council to adopt a resolution on Palestinian statehood, describing it as a "strategic...
MIRPUR--Pakistani police are investigating whether a jealous wife ordered the recent murder of an elderly British man in Kashmir, in a case that...
MANILA--The death toll from flooding and landslides in the Philippines wrought by tropical storm Jangmi rose to 53 Wednesday, officials said, with some...
WASHINGTON---The International Monetary Fund is under mounting pressure to cancel the debts of the three poor West African countries hit hardest by Ebola,...
MONTREAL---Police investigated Tuesday the "senseless mass murder" of six adults and two children in western Canada who were apparently slain by a depressed...
SYDNEY--Australia's biggest city was Wednesday preparing to lead the world in welcoming the New Year with spectacular fireworks over Sydney Harbour, defying terrorist...
NEW YORK---A man who threatened on social media to kill police was shot dead by them near Philadelphia on Tuesday when he tried...
GALLIPOLI , Italy---Some 700 illegal migrants rescued from a ship near the Greek island of Corfu arrived in Italy on Wednesday, after their...
SYDNEY--Most Australian states and territories are set to ban commercial sunbeds from Thursday, in a crackdown on artificial tanning in a country that...
BEIJING---The second most senior official in China's strife-torn Xinjiang region has been replaced, state media said, after the area saw some of its...
JERUSALEM--Israel expressed satisfaction on Wednesday after the UN Security Council failed to adopt a controversial resolution on Palestinian statehood setting a 12-month deadline...
