WORLD

Enrique Peña Nieto had an eventful first year at the helm of the second-biggest economy in Latin America.

While Denmark and New Zealand retained their top slots, North Korea landed at the bottom of the 2013 worldwide corruption index.

John Lindsay emerged on the national scene in the mid-1960s, as New York City found itself in the vortex of myriad urban ills.

House Republicans are ready for another attack on Obama, who they say is violating his oath to faithfully execute the laws.

While the sequester spending cuts remain in place, lawmakers try to find an alternative -- and that's proving elusive.

The Chinese currency edged up in October to rank behind the U.S. dollar while the euro’s share dropped.

Yingluck Shinawatra said that her government does not intend to cling to power at the expense of people’s lives.

Will Cognizant's move to hire thousands of workers in the country appease critics concerned about the loss of American jobs?

Joe Biden called on Japan and China to find ways to build confidence, while the State Department asked China to cancel no-fly zone rules.

Looking for a lesson in "applied homelessness"? Head to Seattle for a three-day Real View Tour of life on the streets.

An airline group distributed air sickness bags at a Washington airport Monday, asking fliers if higher taxes on air travel made them sick.

Amazon's Prime Air sounds amazing, but the drone-based delivery service is illegal under current law.

A naturalized Canadian citizen, Qing Quentin Huang, has been arrested for allegedly trying to give sensitive information to the Chinese embassy in Ottawa.

Iceland has one of the lowest crime rates in the world, including a near absence of gun violence.

In November, more than four times as many people signed up through the website than the previous month.

When Janet Yellen takes command of the Federal Reserve next year, she will become the oldest Fed chair ever, but who served the longest in that role?

Brian Rossi told authorities he wanted to press charges against his son, whom he claimed "does not contribute to the household."

It's getting harder and harder to make a believable case against genetically modified crops.

For the first time, Japan is allowing guards on state-registered tankers to carry guns.

Has Vladimir Putin overplayed his admittedly powerful hand in dealing with a major southwestern neighbor?

In deeply conservative and tradition-based Indian society, people carrying the deadly virus are often ostracized and mistreated.

Ahead of this year's World's AIDS Day on Dec. 1, AIDS patients and protesters traveled from rural China to Beijing.

Here’s a Cyber Monday ad some bargain hunters were probably not expecting to see.

The 15-year-old student of Scott High School had a pellet gun that "appeared real," according to police. He was taken into custody.

Japan expects Washington’s support in its air defense zone dispute with China, but the vice president also needs to diffuse tensions with Beijing.

Tarun Tejpal, who has been accused of sexually assaulting a colleague on two occasions, has denied the allegations.

The Obama administration now faces the challenge of promoting Obamacare enrollment without driving up the website's traffic too much.

U.S. stock markets and property markets in Brazil could be heading toward a bubble, Nobel laureate Robert Shiller has warned.

The uptick in local demand reflects China's policy changes this year to steer the economy toward a domestic-consumption model.