Al-Qaeda militants killed 23 members of Iraq's security forces across the country on...

Police in France say a woman has admitted to suffocating eight newborn...

Russia's special forces have managed to prevent a hijacker from taking complete control of a plane carrying 105...

Over 100 people have died in flash floods triggered by torrential rains in Pakistan and...

The FBI has been asked to look into how Wikileaks got hold of more than 90,000 classified US military...

Police in riot gear stared down protesters in a tense stand-off in Pheonix, Arizona on...

Another US serviceman has been found dead in a remote area of...

Indonesian police have been involved in a confrontation with people who were attacking a mosque used by a minority Islamic...

The US polling group, Pew Research Centre, has done a survey in Pakistan to determine how Pakistanis view the Taliban and other terrorist...

The British government has refused to consider returning the jewel in the British monarch's...

Maricopa County Board of Supervisors representing District 4, pats the governor on the back at a news conference in Glendale, Ariz., Friday, July 30,...

News ) announced Friday that its subsidiary, Nampa, Idaho-based Home Federal Bank has acquired the banking operations of Eugene, Oregon-based LibertyBank in a Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. or FDIC,...

WASHINGTON — Army investigators are broadening their inquiry into the recent disclosure of classified military information to include friends and associates who may have helped the person they...

NEW YORK — The Anti-Defamation League has come out against the planned mosque and Islamic community center near ground zero, saying more information is needed about funding for the project and the...

CARACAS: President Hugo Chavez said Friday that Venezuela has deployed military units and troops to the Colombian border, because outgoing President Alvaro Uribe is "capable of anything," as a row...

MOSCOW: Forest fires in Russia's worst heatwave in decades killed 29 people, officials said Friday, as Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited one of the worst hit areas and a storm claimed seven...

LUDINGTON, Mich. (AP) ― State police divers on Friday recovered the remains of two of four missing passengers who were on a medical plane that crashed into Lake Michigan last...

PORTLAND - Former Vice President Al Gore won't be prosecuted over allegations by a masseuse that he groped and assaulted her in his Oregon hotel room in 2006, the county prosecutor said. District...

London, England (CNN) -- In a room thousands of miles from her prison cell in northeastern Iran, the fear that has gripped Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani for years was clear and almost...

Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama is calling for the immediate release of three American hikers seized by Iranian forces along the Iraqi border who will have been in custody for exactly a...

Gaza City (CNN) -- Israel launched a series of airstrikes in Gaza starting late Friday in response to a rocket assault on Ashkelon earlier in the...

(CNN) -- The Air Force has identified four airmen who died Wednesday when a cargo plane crashed during a training mission near Elmendorf Air Force Base in...

(CNN) -- A Russian boy who was sent back to Moscow, Russia, by his adoptive mother in the United States has been returned to an orphanage, an attorney of the World Association for Children and...

Australia awaits bushfire verdict A royal commission report into Australia's worst bushfire disaster, which left 173 people dead in 2009, is to be made...

The air strikes hit a training camp used by the Islamist group Hamas and hit smuggling tunnels along Gaza's border with Egypt. Palestinian medical workers said four people were injured. The...

A 46-year-old pilot has walked away with only minor injuries from a single-engine aeroplane crash on a remote airstrip on Cape York...

THE US last night implored WikiLeaks to stop releasing secret Afghan war files amid reports the website has many more files in its...

BILOXI Mississippi (Reuters) - BP Plc said on Friday it could seal its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well by next week as the House of Representatives voted to toughen regulation of offshore energy...

DETROIT/CALGARY (Reuters) - Enbridge Inc's chief executive said on Friday he was unable to say when the company would be able to restart the Michigan pipeline that ruptured earlier this week,...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. officials are worried about what other secret documents the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks may possess and have tried to contact the group without success to avoid...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lawyers for convicted U.S. Ponzi schemer Tom Petters on Friday asked an appeals court to send the case back for a new trial, saying they were not able to fully present arguments...

Live to Tell: Kidnap on Highway 1 48 Hours In Full: A family vacationing in Mexico, kidnapped a mile from the U.S. border, recounts their terrifying brush with death and improbable escape to...

Ask CBS News: Media to Blame for Economic Crisis? From a question via Facebook as part of the ongoing series, "Ask CBS News," Katie Couric asks senior business correspondent Anthony Mason if the...

WASHINGTON - Most of the Phillies stayed away from the newest face in the clubhouse Friday. A few, like old friend Brad Lidge, chatted with Roy Oswalt. Early in the morning, at the team hotel, Oswalt...

A U.S. medical helicopter arrives to evacuate a soldier from the 1-320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, who was seriously wounded when he stepped on an improvised mine...

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Friday called ethics charges against Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel "very troubling" and said he hopes the longtime lawmaker can end his career with...

WASHINGTON - The House approved a bill Friday to boost safety standards for offshore drilling, remove a federal cap on economic liability for oil spills and impose new fees on oil and gas production....

Astor Courts in Upstate New York will be the setting Saturday for the wedding of Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky. They met in 1996 and got reacquainted and started dating years...

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The thieves had only one thing on their minds when they broke into a Philadelphia library branch early Monday: They left it high and dry, stripped of its copper piping. Forty personal computers and...

regularly hears from fans who've had a crush on him since the '60s, when he played Eddie Munster on "The Munsters." "But not from a lot of cheerleaders," Patrick said, with a...

Saturday, July 31, 2010 By Muhammad AnisISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Friday claimed that 95 out of the 152 dead bodies of the plane crash victims had been identified and 78 handed...

Police today released video of a brutal stabbing in the Bronx that left an 18-year-old girl dead and another man wounded. In the video, the assailant is seen exiting a black Lincoln Town Car and...

Germany last year, she asked her father, “Daddy, what can I bring you from my journey?” He looked up from his book and answered, “Some perfumed oil.” “Will do,”...

Angela Merkel , was to interrupt her vacation to attend the service. But the mayor of Duisburg, Adolf Sauerland, won’t be present. Mr. Sauerland, who has been in charge of this aging...

Indonesia but also condemnation from social conservatives. The next day, though, Ms. Perez needed a traditional dress known as a kebaya, she told her designer at the other end of the line. The...

UNITED NATIONS — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak discussed the Security Council's demand for an international investigation of Israel's deadly commando raid on...

With 9/11 still fresh in its mind, the government has upgraded its safety requirements for nuclear power plants. These plants, when built, will have to be able to withstand the impact of a jetliner...

SANTIAGO, Jul 30, 2010 (IPS) - The controversial proposal to pardon some convicts in Chile for humanitarian reasons, which was put forward by the Catholic Church and partially taken up by President...

MONTREAL: Canadian military jets intercepted two Russian bombers this week as they approached Canadian airspace near the Arctic, the defence ministry said on Friday. "The two Russian TU-95 bombers...