Daniel Tovrov

Russia thinks that a pre-emptive military strike against Iran and Iran's nuclear weapons program by Israel or any Western power would be an extremely bad idea.

MTV's European Music Awards (EMAs) were held in Belfast, Northern Ireland on Sunday: here's the full list of winners.

Israeli defense Web sites shut down on Sunday, but the government claims that hacker collective Anonymous had nothing to do with the system failure.

Carlos the Jackal has already been convicted of three murders and is currently serving a life sentence in France, but the Venezuelan, who was once one of the most wanted figures of the Cold War, is again on trial.

Things were shaky in Oklahoma on Saturday, but the 5.6 magnitude earthquake in Lincoln County was not all that abnormal.

In Venezuela, a riot in a prison spiraled out of control on Thursday. Gang members who had smuggled guns into the facility killed eight of their fellow inmates before taking four police officers hostage.

Idaho became on Thursday the first U.S. state to require two online courses for high school graduation when state officials approved the requirement.

Rescuers have pulled seven people out of the Qianqiu shaft in city of Sanmenxia in the central Chinese province of Henan on Friday, but 50 more are still trapped.

Gunmen attacked a church in Nigeria late Thursday, killing at least two people.

Judge William Adams will not be charged for physically abusing his daughter Hillary Adams, police said on Thursday.

Both an Israel-Iran war and a nuclear Iran would pose serious threats to security in the Middle East, as well as in the rest of the world.

A suicide car bomb was detonated by suspected Taliban insurgents outside a NATO contractors office in the Herat province of Afghanistan.

Abuse of Zambian workers is widespread in mines owned by Chinese companies, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch.

Moammar Gadhafi's son Saif al-Islam Gadhafi is thought to hiding in the Sahara Desert, where he could potentially remain undetected for months.

Judge William Adams said the video of him repeatedly beating his disabled daughter with a leather belt while screaming at her is not as bad as it looks.

Russian companies are the most likely to engage in bribery when conducting international deals, followed closely by China, according to the 2011 Bribe Payers Index from Transparency International.

Somali rebel group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for an attack on a Kenyan military convoy on Tuesday, but Kenya is downplaying the size of the attack.

A boat full of more than 70 asylum seekers headed for Australia capsized off the coast of the island of Java on Tuesday, drowning at least eight people, including three children.

Judge William Adams, the elected Aransas County, Texas official, has admitted to beating his daughter with a leather belt.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad fully accepted an Arab League peace plan on Wednesday to end seven months of violence and protests.

An international drug trafficking ring that sent narcotics through Mexico into the United States was busted by authorities in Arizona.

With a video of a Texas judge verbally and physically abusing his daughter attracting attention, Judge William Adam's phones have been disconnected.

A video of Aransas County Judge William Adams allegedly beating his disabled daughter is being investigated by the Rockport, Texas Police Department.

A video of Judge William Adams hitting his daughter with a leather belt is sending outrage across the online community.

The U.S. unemployment rate for September was 9.1 percent, but the full story of who works in America isn't told through the numbers alone.

Hackers attacked Palestine's Internet and phone network on Tuesday, slowing down or stopping services for all Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Herman Cain has been deservedly getting a lot of attention for his advertisements, which are turning politics into theater.

Amanda Knox dressed up as a cat burglar and attended a friend's Halloween party on Monday night. The costume has rightly been called insensitive, but did Knox knowingly go too far?

In what almost looked like a playground dare, Japanese MP Yasuhiro Sonoda drank a glass of water taken from a radioactive puddle in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power, in front of a group of reporters.