The U.S. Congress may be polarized, but Americans still think compromise should win out over party orthodoxy.
The U.S. vice president's visit to Mexico resulted in a slew of praise for its neighbor - and the NSA espionage scandal was nowhere to be found.
Amid U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz's call for Republicans to unite to end Obamacare, some in the party say he's flat-out wrong.
Authorities believe Paul Lupo was drunk and got into an argument with his wife before driving away with his son, Francis Lupo.
He may have escaped the death penalty, but life in prison for the former Chinese political star kills any hope of a comeback.
Christians, like Hindus and Sikhs, form a tiny minority of Pakistan’s 180 million population.
The girl and her parents thought she was having her period -- until they found a bullet entry wound.
Kenya was already facing political, economic and social challenges before this weekend's tragedy.
Under the 1906 constitution of Iran, Jews are allowed one reserved seat in parliament, a practice that continued even after the 1979 Revolution.
The FBI has launched an investigation into claims that Americans were part of the al-Shabab attack on a Nairobi mall.
Singapore, which had an unemployment rate of under 2 percent in 2012, tightened foreign recruitment rules for the fourth time this year.
Check out images of the German campaign between incumbent Chancellor Angela Merkel and challenger Peer Steinbrueck.
Take a look at five moments that both raised eyebrows and welcomed laughter throughout the career of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Germans are not the only ones to be affected by the re-election of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The CDU is on the verge of an absolute majority of seats for first time since the 1950s.
The standoff at a mall in Nairobi continues, with at least 59 dead and 175 wounded. Warning: Content is graphic.
Two explosions outside the Peshawar All Saints Church have killed 60 to 80 people. A Taliban-linked group claimed responsibility.
Wayne LaPierre blamed failures of base security and the monitoring of the mentally ill for the attack. Watch his “Meet the Press” interview here.
The conclusion of the yearlong scandal was announced Sunday on the Jinan court's official social media page.
Kenyan troops, aided by Israelis, have surrounded Somali militants holding hostages.
The attackers allegedly targeted non-Muslims, fired automatic weapons and threw grenades at a shopping mall in Nairobi.
Nicolás Maduro claims the U.S. did not allow the Venezuelan presidential plane to fly over Puerto Rico.
I viewed Ms. Davuluri’s triumph as a watershed event for the now 3.3-million-strong “Desi” community in the U.S.
Reporter Declan Walsh was kicked out of the country on the eve of May's elections -- now he's drawn the ire of a violent political party in Karachi.
Belarus tops the list of allies, and the U.S. tops the list of hostile countries, according to a recent poll of Russian residents.
The international watchdog organization said it is examining the chemical weapon program details submitted by Syria.
“One simple low voltage switch stood between the United States and a major catastrophe,” a declassified document revealed.
The first-ever attempt by the federal government to impose limits on carbon emissions faces strong criticism.
A French mother who sent her 3-year-old son named Jihad to school wearing a shirt that said, “I am a bomb,” has reportedly been sentenced to a one-month suspended prison sentence and ordered to pay a €2,000 fine after being convicted of “glorifying a crime.”
Two decades after my mom and dad went to the world's most reclusive nation, I set off on a similar journey, and re-created their photos.