At least a dozen people were killed when a mudslide buried a bus on a Guatemalan highway Saturday, authorities said.

Police in Ohio say a father cut his family off from the outside world, sexually abused at least one of his daughters and locked one ...

Pope Benedict XVI has not ruled out getting involved in the case of an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning, the Vatican says, calling ...

The Basque separatist group ETA released a ceasefire statement Sunday to various media, including the Basque newspaper Gara, which typically publishes information from the group.

A new blowout preventer was installed atop BP’s plugged well and its failed predecessor was being hauled to the surface, officials said Saturday.

A pub landlady tells how she discovered a car embedded in the wall of the men’s toilets.

Pakistan’s Yasir Hameed says a meeting he had with the News of the World that was secretly recorded has been “inaccurately reported” by the tabloid.

US troops are called in to help Iraqi forces battle insurgents behind a deadly attack on an Iraqi army base in Baghdad, security officials tell ...

Armed Basque separatist group Eta says it has decided not to carry out “armed actions” in its campaign for independence, the BBC learns.

Up to 100 people are feared buried by landslides in Guatemala, where 36 are confirmed dead following torrential rain.

The Lockerbie bomber is at the center of a fresh row after it emerged he is taking a cancer drug that could keep him alive ...

Kidnappers released a 5-year-old British boy unharmed Tuesday almost two weeks after abducting him from his grandparents’ house in central Pakistan, British and Pakistani officials ...

Somalia’s government signed an agreement with a powerful militia on Monday that offers high-level militants senior government positions in return for their military support during ...

Pope Benedict XVI’s former diocese says it has suspended a priest convicted in 1986 of sexually abusing minors and accepted the resignation of his superior.

A suspected Mexican drug gang gunned down two cars carrying families with ties to the U.S. consulate on Saturday, killing an American couple and a ...

Insurgents continued a relentless assault on Iraq’s military and security forces, launching a coordinated attack on one of the main command centers in Baghdad.

A massive landslide buried up to 100 people in Guatemala when they tried to dig out a bus caught in deep mud as torrential rains ...

Glenn Beck wrapped himself in the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. at a recent rally. But he fits much better with the late Charles ...

The Basque separatist militant group ETA declared a cease fire in a video statement issued on Sunday.

Palestinian and Israeli leaders expressed satisfaction and hope on Sunday in their first public utterances following the opening round of peace talks in Washington last ...

Since the beginning of operations in 2001, 334 service personnel have died as a result of serving in the country A ...

Facebook protest group takes time to ‘reclassify’ the former prime minister’s memoirs in British book shops When Tony Blair called his ...

Search engine giant alleged to have manipulated rankings of rivals myTriggers, SourceTool/TradeComet and Foundem Regulators in Texas have launched the ...

German economist Hans-Werner Sinn warns further austerity might push Greece to the brink of ‘civil war’ Greece’s exit from the eurozone ...

Pakistan batsman Yasir Hameed denies newspaper claims that he said his teammates were corrupt The first meeting between Pakistan and ...

Days after U.S. ends combat operations in Iraq, American troops help Iraqi forces fend off assault.

Ultimately, it comes down to the Redskin working his way back to where coaches are comfortable with ...

Decision to block “adult services” site, criticized as a tool for prostitution, raises free speech concerns.

Expectations of buyers and sellers are mismatched, thwarting deals that could potentially lift U.S. housing sector from its funk.

One month after cave-in, foreman maintains regimen crucial for the survival of 33 men.

The armed Basque separatist group ETA today announced another ceasefire, suggesting it might turn to a political process in its quest for an independent ...

A British soldier died in hospital in the UK today while another was killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence ...

The BBC is reporting that the Basque separatist militant group ETA has issued a video declaring a ceasefire.

At least 18 people were killed in Guatemala yesterday, including a dozen on a bus that was buried in a landslide, as heavy rains ...

A British tourist killed after a skydiving plane crashed in a ball of flames in New Zealand has been named.

Torrential rains from a tropical depression caused mudslides that have killed at least 38 people in Guatemala most of them in separate disasters …

The Vatican raised the possibility Sunday of using behind-the-scenes diplomacy to try to save the life of an Iranian widow sentenced to be stoned …

Smoking cannabis, also known as marijuana, reduced pain in patients with nerve pain stemming from injuries or surgical complications, new research …

The hour when Ariana Kramer will begin her college career is fast approaching and her parents are in an office supply store, disagreeing about ...

Forecasters say Tropical Storm Earl has made landfall near Western Head, Nova Scotia, on Saturday after passing well east of Nantucket Island …

Mohammed ElBaradei, the former UN nuclear chief and leading Egyptian dissident, has accused the government of President Hosni Mubarak of publishing ...

A massive earthquake caused the ground beneath the New Zealand city of Christchurch to shift up to 11 feet.

Two hundred people are feared dead after a riverboat loaded with passengers and fuel drums caught fire and capsized in southern Congo.

Mudslides caused by torrential rains have killed at least 28 people in Guatemala – most of them in separate disasters along the same ...

A dramatic picture featuring several glamorous girls posing at the world’s largest camel fair in India was voted the best travel photograph of ...

Road-tripping into the prescribed areas of Australia’s Northern Territory Day one | Day two SPRAWLING through dusty red desert, the ochre-coloured hills of the Larapinta Trail might ...

‘The American’ takes the top spot at this weekend’s box office.

Frank McCourt might get $50 million net from sale of Dodgers.

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Ten years after the dot-com crash, Daniel E. Smith starts to see his fortunes rise again.

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Giulio Tremonti, finance minister, has conceded that the government must take fresh steps to improve the sluggish growth rate as Italy tries to emerge from ...

Pakistan’s high commissioner in London retreats from his staunch defence of the three players at the centre of the storm

Michel Barnier believes the clouds over Europe’s new financial supervisory structures have cleared after EU diplomats and lawmakers agreed to a radical overhaul of the ...

President is to ask Congress to expand and make permanent a tax credit for research and development to boost a flagging economic recovery

Prices of Certified Emission Reductions are at a four-month high over concerns that developing nations were deliberately overproducing HFC 23, a potent greenhouse gas

Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff), the focal character in Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere, belongs to a social class that might be called the homeless elite.

How troubled starlet Lindsay Lohan ended up appearing in Vince Shlomi’s epically tasteless Underground Comedy 2010

Though Beijing’s Forbidden City has been open to the public for decades, parts of it remained off-limits. This month a new exhibition of artifacts from ...

No one really thinks much will come out of the direct talks with the Palestinians but, when the issue is Bibi, up come visions of ...

Immigrants from the old Eastern bloc seem to be clustering around the trucking industry, bringing with it a set of cultural and legal problems

President Obama recently scarfed a “super sub” to show his support for mom-and-pop businesses, crediting the little guy with the majority of U.S. job growth. ...

Marine Le Pen is moving her father’s rabble-rousing, far-right party away from the fringe, and redefining French politics in the process.

It’s clear we overreacted to 9/11.

In an effort to be safe at home, flood-prone Iowa has an unlikely salve when it comes to deploying their National Guard troops overseas.

Three years after NEWSWEEK published its controversial cover naming Pakistan the world’s most dangerous nation, it seems to be even worse off.

How anti-Muslim sentiment is different in European countries than in America.

A Dagestan suicide bombing that struck a Russian military base Sunday underscored the difficulties Moscow faces in stamping out violence in the restive republic.

Speculation is rampant that North Korea’s Kim Jong-il will go public with plans to name his son his heir at a rare political conference.

Abu Abbas oversees one of Baghdad’s overstretched police stations whose employees have increasingly been targeted by insurgents. He says Iraqi rule of law has been ...

The Indonesia volcano eruption is only smoke and ash and not life-threatening so far. But some warn that more earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are on ...