The United States deported a former Bosnian Serb police chief Thursday to Sarajevo, to face charges for his alleged role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of

The Muslim Brotherhood quickly staked a claim Thursday for its candidate to advance to a runoff vote, saying its exit polls showed him leading in Egypt's

European researchers are planning to use new techniques to analyze DNA that could help crack the mystery of whether Bigfoot exists.

About 400 people have been arrested overnight in the latest protest in Canada over higher university tuition.

An exclusive fundraising event hosted by Bill Clinton in London has been dubbed the "worst party ever" by fuming guests who complained of the dank venue, long

Faced with modern-day claims of visions of the Virgin Mary and apparitions of long-dead saints, the Vatican published rules Wednesday to verify religious

Istanbul, Tokyo and Madrid made the first cut among bidders to host the 2020 Olympic Games at a meeting of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on

One of the survivors of the shooting massacre carried out by Anders Behring Breivik compared the killer to "Harry Potter" villain Voldemort in an Oslo court

A newly discovered frog in Panama is bright yellow and dyes your fingers yellow if you touch it.

US officials and lawmakers reacted angrily Wednesday after a Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA track down Usama bin Laden was jailed for 33 years, after

After a lifetime of being told who will rule them, Egyptians dove enthusiastically into the uncertainty of the Arab world's first competitive presidential race

Global powers and Iran traded new proposals Wednesday aimed at ending the standoff over Tehran's nuclear program in a round of negotiations that both sides

Greece's former Prime Minister Lucas Papademos on Tuesday warned that Greeks have no choice but to stick with a painful austerity program dictated by its

A passenger train rammed into a parked freight train and caught fire before dawn Tuesday in southern India, killing at least 25 people and injuring dozens

Grieving Yemenis held somber ceremonies Tuesday to mark the country's National Day following a suicide bombing a day earlier that killed nearly 100 soldiers

Days after four people died amid a traffic jam of climbers scrambling to conquer Mount Everest, Nepal officials said a similar rush up the world's tallest peak

Intent on weakening Iran economically, the US Senate on Monday approved tough new penalties on the Tehran regime to thwart its nuclear ambitions.

Two Canadian women were fatally stabbed Monday morning in Atlantic City in what police said was an attempted robbery.

Yemen's Defense Ministry says the casualty toll in a suicide bombing at a military parade rehearsal in the capital Sanaa has risen to 96 deaths and at least

President Barack Obama and fellow NATO leaders solidified plans Monday for an "irreversible transition" in Afghanistan, affirming their commitment to ending

A Nepalese mountaineering official says three climbers returning from the summit of Mount Everest have died and two more are missing.

Italian police have arrested two suspects in the bombing of a school that killed a 16-year-old girl and seriously injured five more teenagers, local media

Six people died and 50 others were injured Sunday when a powerful earthquake caused buildings to collapse and sent panicked people rushing into the streets of

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Sunday that there will be "no rush for the exit" in Afghanistan, despite a campaign pledge by newly elected

American servicemen and women are being urged to join the Australian Defence Force (ADF) amid US military budget cuts.

A rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) exploded Sunday near a team of UN truce observers, including mission head Major General Robert Mood, as they were visiting the

Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer who was the only person ever convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, died Sunday nearly three years

A suicide bomber detonated a car bomb in eastern Syria Saturday killing nine people, as US President Barack Obama said the G-8 wanted a political transition in

At least 20,000 people held a major rally of the local Occupy movement in Frankfurt on Saturday to decry austerity measures affecting much of Europe, the

Twenty people were killed in an explosion inside an under-construction expressway tunnel in central China's Hunan Province on Saturday, state media said.

Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng left China for the US Saturday, bringing to an end an episode that strained relations between Washington and Beijing and

The Olympic flame began a 70-day journey around the United Kingdom on Saturday after landing on British soil for the first time since 1948 ahead of London

The tortured body of a Mexican police reporter was found on the side of a road in the northern state of Sonora on Friday, a day after he was kidnapped by

Government forces fired on protesters who took to the streets of Aleppo on Friday, wounding several people at the biggest rally seen in Syria's second city

About 600 inmates have filed out of a troubled penitentiary where a group of armed prisoners has held off authorities in a three-week standoff, Venezuelan

Iran says it will sue Google over dropping the name of the Persian Gulf on Google Maps.

Japan's economy grew at an annual rate of 4.1 percent from January to March amid a gradual recovery from last year's catastrophic earthquake and tsunami.

A senior judge has been sworn in to head Greece's caretaker government for a month as the debt-crippled country lurches through a political crisis that

Is a sinister-looking figure in a black top hat the ideal logo for a new professional baseball team?

Russian police are arresting opposition demonstrators who had moved to a central Moscow square after police dispersed a protest camp that had occupied a park

According to a recent study published in the journal Psychological Science, both men and women see women in advertisements as objects – just like the products

A 6.0-magnitude earthquake rocked Papua New Guinea on Wednesday morning, striking 29 miles (48km) west of Kimbe town on the island of New Britain, the US

Banners have appeared in northern Mexico signed by the Zetas drug cartel saying the gang was not responsible for killing 49 people whose mutilated bodies were

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande say they've agreed to discuss ways to generate economic growth in Europe.

The Earth has a new portrait thanks to a Russian weather satellite.

Two Russians and an American blasted off for the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Prosecutors in the UK charged the former head of News Corp.'s British newspaper unit, Rebekah Brooks, Tuesday with conspiring to obstruct justice, marking the

Francois Hollande was sworn in as president of France on Tuesday in a ceremony that returns a Socialist to the highest level of government at a time when the

Leading European Union finance officials promised to stand by Greece as a member of the eurozone provided it sticks to its bailout terms and stays the course

Police found 49 mutilated bodies scattered in a pool of blood near the border with the U.S., a region where Mexico's two dominant drug cartels are trying to

US officials said Sunday that there are "no plans" to shut down a police training program in Iraq, contrary to a published report stating the program was being

Ugandan troops have captured a senior member of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in a milestone arrest that could signal they are closing in on notorious rebel

A top Afghan peace negotiator and former Taliban senior official was gunned down by assailants as he left his home in Kabul on Sunday.

Mexican police said Sunday that 49 mutilated bodies were found dumped in black plastic bags near the northern city of Monterrey, in an apparent flare-up of

The US condemned the killing of a top Afghan peace negotiator and former Taliban senior official who was gunned down by assailants as he left his home in Kabul

Greece's political party leaders failed to bridge differences in a last-ditch effort to form a coalition government Sunday, and new elections appeared

Security force raids on Syrian protest hubs and clashes with armed rebels Sunday left 23 people dead, 16 of them civilians, monitors and activists said, as a

Violence in Syria cost at least 15 lives Saturday as a UN force to oversee a truce neared half its planned strength, monitors said.

Yemeni troops launched an all-out offensive Saturday to retake the southern city of Zinjibar, held for a year by al Qaeda gunmen, in fighting that killed 12

The daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro said during a rousing gay rights march Saturday that her father advocated eliminating sexual discrimination, and

An American man jailed in Bolivia for nearly a year without formal charges has gone on hunger strike to draw attention to his case.

The top commander of NATO-led forces in Afghanistan held talks with Pakistan's army chief in Islamabad Saturday on how to improve security in volatile areas

Greek President Karolos Papoulias called for the leaders of Greece's political parties to meet on Sunday, in a last-ditch effort to broker a deal for a

The Dalai Lama said reports passed to him from inside Tibet revealed that Chinese agents trained Tibetan women for a mission to kill him, The (London) Sunday

The champions of the French far right and far left in the presidential elections, Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Melenchon, are to go head-to-head again in next

Two coalition soldiers were killed by men in Afghan police uniforms in southern Afghanistan Saturday, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said.

Peruvian President Ollanta Humala is facing an unexpected challenge -- the resurgence of the Shining Path, a brutal guerrilla group that many analysts believed

European officials piled pressure on Greece on Saturday to stand by its fiscal commitments or face leaving the eurozone, as political turmoil in the country

An Indian court overturned the conviction of a US teenager accused of murdering his mother while on vacation in the northern state of Rajasthan two years ago,

More than 2,000 people gathered in Kiev on Saturday to protest against the regime of President Viktor Yanukovych and express support for jailed ex-premier

A sonic weapon used to ward off pirates attacks and drive back rioting crowds will be part of the security arsenal at the London Olympics, Sky News reported

About 2,000 birds were found dead on beaches in central Chile, a natural history museum director said Friday, accusing fishermen of snagging them in their nets

Among Vladimir Putin's first acts now that he's back in Russia's top job was to cancel a date with President Barack Obama.

Greece's socialist leader said Friday he had failed in a last-ditch bid to form a government, taking the nation a step closer to another round of elections as

A German man has died almost a year after being struck in the backside by a mysterious stranger wielding a poisoned umbrella, The Local Germany reported

A man wearing an Afghan National Army uniform opened fire on coalition troops in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, killing an American and wounding two others,

About 4,000 accused supporters of the late dictator Moammar Gadhafi are still being held in Libyan militia detention centers -- often in secret -- and many are

A University of Iowa researcher believes he's discovered evidence of the largest known crocodile, and he thinks it was a real man-eater of a beast.

Russian agents have foiled terror attack plans on the Black Sea resort of Sochi, host of the 2014 Winter Games, and seized a large amount of weapons and

An Italian court postponed until 2013 the slander trial against Amanda Knox on Thursday, as it clashed with another trial the presiding judge is working on.

Rescuers discovered the shattered wreckage of a new Russian-made passenger plane Thursday that smashed into the side of an Indonesian volcano during a flight

Twin suicide car bombs exploded outside a military intelligence building and killed 55 people Thursday, tossing mangled bodies in the street in the deadliest

Any adult who wants sex-change surgery or hormone therapy in Argentina will be able to demand that their private or public health care companies provide it

The White House says Russian President Vladimir Putin is skipping a planned visit to the United States this month for an economic summit and a much-anticipated

Roger Federer rallied to beat Milos Raonic 4-6, 7-5, 7-6 (4) at the Madrid Open on Wednesday to narrowly avoid his earliest tournament exit in two years.

A U.S. government-funded study says North Koreans have unprecedented access to foreign media, giving them a more positive impression of the outside world.

Tourism officials in China came under heavy criticism Wednesday after a Ferrari sports car was driven across an ancient Chinese landmark, leaving tire tracks

Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega was transferred from prison to a hospital Wednesday after suffering a respiratory infection, his daughter said.

Social networking sites are buzzing with debate over a Mexican congressional candidate who released a campaign poster showing herself topless.

Search and rescue teams were scouring the slopes of a dormant volcano in western Indonesia early Thursday for signs of a new Russian-made passenger plane that

The would-be bomber tasked to bring down a US-bound jetliner for al Qaeda's Yemeni branch was actually a double agent who infiltrated the terrorist cell and

The official spokesman for Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper raised eyebrows Tuesday with his surprisingly unrestrained response to someone who criticized

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unveiled a revamped coalition government on Tuesday, forming a broad alliance with the chief opposition party that

China will reinvestigate allegations that Chinese-made drug capsules containing powdered remains of dead babies are being smuggled into South Korea, state

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Monday that he expects to return to Venezuela in the coming days after finishing his latest round of cancer treatment,

An Australian commodity trader accused of orchestrating a major manipulation of global crude oil prices, allegedly netting his associates more than US$50

Experts have long debated whether the sophisticated animal drawings in a famous French cave are indeed the oldest of their kind in the world, and a study out

Yemeni military officials say al-Qaida militants have killed 20 soldiers and captured 25 in a surprise attack on an army base in the southern Abyan province.