Washington---The United States and Venezuela, which have had highly strained relations for more than a decade, held a "positive" diplomatic meeting over the...
Washington---The United States and Venezuela, which have had highly strained relations for more than a decade, held a "positive" diplomatic meeting over the...
United Nations, United States---A plane carrying a delegation of Yemeni rebels scheduled to attend peace negotiations for their war-torn country are on their...
London---Three British sisters are feared to have travelled with their nine children to join up with jihadists in Syria, a lawyer for the...
Mogens Lykketoft United Nations, United States---The UN General Assembly chose a new president Monday, selecting Mogens Lykketoft of Denmark to serve the one-year...
French President Francois Hollande Algiers---There is "no doubt" that Nigeria-based Boko Haram Islamists were behind the suicide bombings that killed 23 people and...
N'Djamena---Twenty-three people were killed and over 100 injured in twin suicide bombings targeting police in the Chadian capital Monday, with the government blaming...
New York---The two murderers who escaped from a US jail used hacksaw blades supplied by an enamored prison worker and equipment stolen from...
Jeb Bush Miami---Jeb Bush jumped headlong into the presidential race Monday, insisting "America deserves better" after eight years of Barack Obama, as the...
Paris---William Friedkin, the US director who made the Oscar-winning movies "The Exorcist" and "The French Connection", is dismissive about the flood of superhero...
Sydney---Australian authorities work within the law to stop asylum-seeker boats, Prime Minister Tony Abbott insisted Tuesday, after reports officials have made cash payments...
Beijing---The world's tallest peak, Mount Everest, moved three centimetres (1.2 inches) to the southwest because of the Nepal earthquake that devastated the country...
Geneva---US officials are reportedly working to confirm claims that Al-Qaeda's top leader in Yemen was killed in a CIA drone strike last week,...
Tripoli---Libyan jihadist group Ansar al-Sharia denied on Tuesday that the Al-Qaeda-linked mastermind of a deadly 2013 siege at an Algerian gas plant had...
Beijing---China had four million millionaire households in 2014, the second-highest in the world after the United States, as the country's stock market boom...
Hong Kong---Hong Kong lawmakers urged calm Tuesday after police arrested 10 people on suspicion of making explosives in a plot they say is...
Tokyo---An ambitious attempt to circumnavigate the globe in a solar-powered plane is facing a "moment of truth" after two weeks of bad weather...
Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid Dhaka---A top Bangladesh Islamist leader could be executed within months after the Supreme Court Tuesday upheld his death sentence...
Beirut---Rebel rocket fire killed at least 34 civilians in Aleppo in one of the bloodiest days of the conflict for government-held areas of...
