Israeli forces killed hundreds of unarmed Palestinian civilians and destroyed thousands of homes in Gaza in attacks which breached the laws of war, Amnesty International concluded in a new report published this week....

South Korea's Defense Ministry says North Korea launched five missiles off its eastern coast...

Politics in Washington picked up a beat Friday, when former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin suddenly announced her resignation as Alaskan...

The incoming head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says he knows of no hard evidence that Iran is trying to gain the ability to develop nuclear...

Pakistan's military says a transport helicopter has crashed because of a technical failure, killing 26 security personnel on board....

A leaked report purportedly drafted by authorities in Myanmar’s military government describes a top-secret visit to North Korea late last year by Myanmar's top brass, during which the two sides pledged to significantly expand cooperation in military training and arms production, Radio Free Asia (RFA)...

South African police have seized a large quantity of heroin which they say was smuggled into the country from...

Israeli attacks with guided missiles fired from aerial drones killed civilians during the recent Gaza fighting in violation of the laws of war, Human Rights Watch said in a report released this week....

In a bizarre twist a man who lost his female flatmate in a tragic accident will now be prosecuted because of an unrelated...

The head of the United Nations agency tasked with upholding freedom of expression and press freedom on Friday voiced his strong support for the recent call issued by the foreign ministers of the Group of Eight (G8) nations on Iran to respect fundamental human rights....

This image originally provided June 28, 2009 by the Cherokee County Sheriff's Department shows a sketch of a possible suspect in a series of recent murders in Cherokee County, S.C. THE ASSOCIATED...

PHOENIX — Cynthia Mary Roberson is an unemployed mother who police say led her 12- and 14-year-old sons and their friends to commit at least 20 armed robberies and assaults, including the...

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Since 1956, Mister Softee has attracted children. Those who illegally use Mister Softee's name, smiling cone-head logo, and jingle may attract the attention of the U.S. Marshal's...

Even as troops fight militants in the south, government officials and donors in Afghanistan's central Bamiyan valley are training tour guides and teaching restaurateurs about customer service. It's...

CARACAS - Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya confirmed to a television news station here that he would return to his country on Sunday, and do so with "several presidents" of allied countries....

Joey Chestnut, of San Jose, Calif., defending champion of the Nathan's Famous July 4th Hot Dog Eating Contest, closes in on the world record during Coney Island's annual hot dog eating contest...

US search crews have located large debris from the Yemenia plane which crashed earlier this week into the sea off the Comoros Islands killing all but one of the 153 people on...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea launched seven ballistic missiles Saturday into waters off its east coast in a show of military firepower that defied U.N. resolutions and drew global...

CHICAGO - Credit the recession for staycations and bringing us more game-night parties at home. But also give it a shout for spurring more first dates. Economic woes, it seems, unleash something...

Aaron Weisinger, 26, surprises his girlfriend Erica Breder, 25, both of Walnut Creek, Calif., with a wedding proposal while visiting the crown of the Statue of Liberty in New York, Saturday July 4,...

OUSTED Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has confirmed to a television news station that he will return to his country today, and do so with "several presidents" of allied...

NEWARK, N.J. - A Transportation Security Administration agent was arrested at a New Jersey airport after authorities say she avoided a pre-flight screening and boarded a plane. Authorities say Wanda...

Philadelphia marine police and the New Jersey State police and the U.S. Coast Guard continued to drag the Delaware River downstream from the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge Saturday for the 11-year-old nephew...

It turns out more than one player is willing to take a hometown discount to stay with the Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins. Ruslan Fedotenko signed a $1.8 million, one-year contract...

'); KABUL — Taliban militants fired rockets and mortars at a U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing two American troops in a fierce battle as thousands of Marines in the south...

One killed, four critically injured when truck carrying fireworks exploded The five were to set up Fourth of July show on Ocracoke Island in Outer Banks Truck blew up at the Ocracoke Island docks...

Iran will pursue "new round of diplomatic activity," Iranian president reportedly says Ahmadinejad criticizes foreign powers for "meddling" in Iran's affairs Obama administration...

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) -- Serena Williams kept telling herself she was facing just another foe in the Wimbledon final Saturday, just another woman who hits the ball quite hard, just another player...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Determined to change the way the world views the United States, Barack Obama is onto his next foreign mission: rebuilding relations with Russia, proving to global leaders that...

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- The soldier who was photographed fighting the Taliban in his boxer shorts says he's glad to be back home in Texas after his yearlong deployment to Afghanistan - especially...

PARIS : Anti-terror judges leading an inquiry into the 2002 killing of 11 French engineers in Pakistan have asked France's defence minister to open up classified government files, a source said...

Child killed, four wounded in Gaza blast Two days after last Christmas Israeli armed forces invaded the Gaza Strip killing 1400 Palestinians, almost all civilians including 300 children. During that...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will grant President Barack Obama permission next week to ship U.S. weapons supplies across its territory, or through its airspace, en route to Afghanistan, sources on both...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, optimistic California can finish its budget negotiations in a few days, is willing to reconsider his proposed cuts to education in hopes of...

The traffickers were executed in a prison in the city of Karaj west of Tehran after being convicted for buying, selling and possessing various drugs, IRNA news agency said. A total of 700kg of...

Four million used cars reportedly purchased in the U.S. during May Average new car is $1,700 cheaper than during the last quarter of 2008, data shows Clark Howard: Arrange financing first to see how...

MEXICO CITY: Two professional midget wrestlers - twin brothers - found dead in a cheap hotel room may have been drugged by female robbers, say Mexican authorities.Post mortem examinations are being...

Teen not diagnosed with swine flu until after death As swine flu runs rampant in the Southern Hemisphere winter, world health experts are concerned that some hard-hit countries have been reluctant to...

HARRISBURG - Invasion of privacy is an issue that really gets under State Rep. Babette Josephs' skin. That's why the Philadelphia Democrat introduced a bill, passed unanimously last week by the...

The astronauts on Apollo 11 soared to heights never before reached by humankind. The return to Earth was, perhaps inevitably, traumatic, as Craig Nelson reveals in an exclusive extract from his...

Phillies starter Rodrigo Lopez, pitching his first game in the majors since 2007, fires one against the Mets. He shut them down until the seventh...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Record label mogul Allen Klein, who handled the affairs of both the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, died in New York on Saturday after a battle with Alzheimer's disease, a...

Prime Minister Gordon Brown could face a fresh backbench revolt over his 2007 decision to scrap the 10p bottom rate of income tax.A group of Labour MPs - led by Frank Field and Greg Pope - are...

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown says new sanctions may be imposed on Burma's regime after it snubbed visiting UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.Mr Ban expressed "deep disappointment" after...

Share (CBS/AP) Authorities said a truck carrying fireworks intended for Ocracoke Island's annual Independence Day display exploded at the island's South Ferry Terminal Saturday morning, killing...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- A top aide to Iran's all-powerful leader has accused the country's main opposition leader of being an American agent who should be tried for treason, increasing the pressure on...

MORONI, Comoros (AP) - Doe Cyrille and his crew searched for hours in crashing winds and waves up to 16 feet (5 meters) high for any sign of Yemenia Flight 626. Then they spotted a girl impossibly...

DINGMAN'S FERRY, Pa. - Authorities in eastern Pennsylvania say a 25-year-old New Jersey man died as he was trying to aid another swimmer in a Pocono Mountain stream. The Jersey City resident, whose...