US and Iraqi officials have sent a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium to a Canadian port, in a top-secret...

Syria has called on the United Nations to exert pressure on Israel to 'stop its continued practices and aggressions against Syrian citizens in the occupied Syrian Golan who suffer from the Israeli daily flagrant violations', the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported this...

Ingrid Betancourt has been told by doctors in Paris she has suffered no side-effects from her kidnapping...

The Bush government in the US is believed to be drawing up plans to push Guantanamo prison inmates into normal...

Thabo Mbeki, the president of South Africa, has held talks in Zimbabwe with President Robert Mugabe and Arthur Mutambara, leader of a breakaway faction of the Movement for Democratic...

US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has been puzzled as to why his comments on Iraq caused such a sharp response in the...

Hungarian riot police have waded into far-right extremists after they tried to break up the annual gay parade in the capital...

A jail for political prisoners has erupted in extreme violence following a crackdown by...

A Brazilian Roman Catholic priest, Father Adelir de Carli, who flew over the Atlantic Ocean in a bizarre event, is believed to have...

A senior US security official has reportedly said that al-Qaeda is regrouping itself in tribal areas along the Pakistan-Afghanistan...

Patrick Waller has become a free man in the US after being wrongly convicted and imprisoned for more than 15...

British police have arrested a suspect in connection with the brutal murder of two French students in London....

Leading defense officials from the United States and Israel, meeting in Israel this week, raised the controversial attack on the U.S. ship USS Liberty, by Israel, in June...

U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama told reporters Saturday he remains committed to ending the war in...

An Afghan parliamentarian and renowned chieftain from the southern Kandahar province was assassinated overnight by unknown gunmen, an official said...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A wildfire threatening thousands of homes in Southern California spread slowly through scenic canyonlands Saturday, straining resources as crews struggled to contain hundreds of...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- John McCain calls himself an underdog. That may be an understatement. The GOP presidential candidate trails Democrat Barack Obama in polls, organization and money while trying to...

The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program - a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium - reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a...

CAMBRIDGE, Idaho (AP) -- Using his trusty BB gun to help him return to Earth, a 48-year-old gas station owner flew a lawn chair rigged with helium-filled balloons more than 200 miles across the...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran indicated Saturday that it has no plans to meet a key Western demand that it stop enriching uranium, a day after Tehran sent the European Union a response to an...

TOYAKO, Japan (Reuters) - Prospects that the G8 would reach a meaningful agreement to fight global warming at their annual summit dimmed on Sunday as leaders began arriving in northern Japan with a...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Kyle Busch fell a lap down at Talladega and came back to win. So when a steering problem dropped him to the back of the field at Daytona, he didn't panic. He simply...

Earlier in the day as he flew from Montana to Missouri, Obama told reporters he was surprised at how the media has "finely calibrated" his recent words on Iraq, and reaffirmed his commitment to...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Jesse Helms forever changed North Carolina politics and the conservative movement. The former senator did it without ever changing much about...

Brian Hart didn't channel his grief quietly. Committed to "preventing the senseless from recurring," he railed against the military on his blog for shortcomings in supplying armor to soldiers. The...

TOYAKO, Japan (AP) -- Global challenges like soaring oil prices and the Earth's rising temperature await President Bush at a summit of top industrialized nations, but first he set out to soothe...

The three freed American hostages - Keith Stansell, Marc Gonsalves and Thomas Howes - have been receiving medical care at Brooke Army Medical Center at San Antonio's Fort Sam Houston. The three were...

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) -- Thrilled as she was to win her fifth Wimbledon singles championship, Venus Williams dialed down her celebration. No hopping in place and skipping to the net after match...

Betty Borowski had crawled under car, looking for her keys Woman may have had heart attack while pinned She was found by mail carrier, who noticed her letters piling...

Zakaria says high price of oil makes Iran less vulnerable to economic pressure Potentially more moderate opponent to Ahmadinejad elected Parliament speaker Israeli attack on Iran would delay, not...

Vatican judge talks of case in interview published Saturday Fake priest caught after trying to hear confessions No indication when incident happened or if punishment was...

MPs are urging the Foreign Office to launch an inquiry into the running of a British territory in the Caribbean. A Commons Foreign Affairs Committee report raises concerns over allegations of...

Troops pulled back from the streets of the Mongolian capital yesterday and political leaders called for calm as authorities lifted emergency rule declared this week after rioting over alleged...

A wildfire threatening hundreds of homes in Southern California spread slowly through scenic canyonlands Saturday, straining resources as crews struggled to contain hundreds of other blazes around...

A proposal to open up hundreds of parish churches to tourists is to be discussed by the Church of England's ruling body, the General Synod. It calls for every diocese to have a tourism officer...

Nicola's chair is designed to make breastfeeding more comfortable Mothers are always being told that breastfeeding is best, but many complain that they are not really encouraged to feed their baby...

A woman said to be 70 years of age has given birth to twins in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state after taking IVF treatment. Omkari Panwar has no birth certificate but if her age is proven it...

The UN's envoy to Afghanistan is set to outline a new plan on spending foreign aid, amid concerns that millions of dollars have been wasted. The envoy, Kai Eide, wants international aid money to...

LIMA, Peru - Canadian archeologists have found a pre-Columbian tomb containing well-preserved human remains, ceramics and jewelry near Peru's northern coast that could shed new light on the ancient...

AUTLAN, Mexico - Inspectors are collecting soil, water and produce samples, reviewing export logs and combing packing plants in three major tomato-growing states in Mexico. But the U.S. Food and...

"No scrolls have been found in the Judean Desert" in decades, Eshel said. "The common belief has been that there is nothing left to find there."Now, he said, scholars may be spurred on to further...

Alex Allan, who briefs the Prime Minister and the Cabinet on security matters, was appointed to his post by Gordon Brown last autumn. Photo / AP Britain's most senior intelligence officer is said to...

Israel Defense Forces troops blockaded the West Bank village of Na'alin on Saturday in what the army called an open-ended effort to curb protests against the construction nearby of the controversial...

ISTANBUL - Former Liverpool star Harry Kewell on Saturday signed a two-year contract with Turkish champions Galatasaray, describing his move as a "new chapter" after five injury-stricken years at...

On Independence Day weekends in presidential election years, the ritual is normally immutable. The candidates tour the heartland, dutifully down their hot dogs and hamburgers, and, on this most...

Ingrid Betancourt, a former presidential candidate in Colombia, was rescued last week after six years of captivity by Marxist Farc guerrillas in one of the most spectacular pieces of trickery in the...

Will Jay Leno go jaywalking? That's the multimillion-dollar question hanging over the future of America's most bankable late-night chat-show host. Five of the biggest US networks are attempting...

The Pentagon has extended the tour of duty of 2,200 US Marines fighting alongside British forces in southern Afghanistan, amid fears that a resurgent Taliban will force the postponement of next...

The 20th anniversary of the Piper Alpha disaster is being marked with memorial ceremonies on Sunday. A total of 167 men died in the North Sea platform disaster on 6 July, 1988. There were 61...

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) - President George W. Bush and Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda will discuss the next steps in the six-party talks over North Korea's nuclear status when they meet...