While many U.S. senators are very wealthy, these lawmakers would certainly miss their $174,000-per-year paychecks if a Republican measure passes.
Morsi isn't alone: Anti-Semitism in the Middle East is mainstream. Here's what some others have said about Jews, Judaism and the Holocaust.
Several officials in Chongqing have been fired after a string of sex tapes appeared. This is not a first for a city where scandal has broken out before.
As many as 18,000 wild jaguars were killed every year until 1973.
Canada is investigating claims that two of its citizens were involved in the hostage crisis that took place earlier this month.
In Sri Lanka, the authorities and public are generally apathetic about acts of violent crime.
Not everyone is exempted from owning military-style assault weapons under new legislation proposed by the Democratic senator.
Allowing women to take on front-line roles could help transform the military's misogynistic culture, Army Gen. Martin Dempsey said.
Local police in Mumbai are concerned about the sudden influx of knives in circulation. Chili powders also are being used as a defensive weapon.
Denis McDonough will be the next chief of staff, as the president continues to shake up his West Wing staff.
Despite Angola’s oil wealth, it remains one of the poorest nations on earth.
North Korea issued another warning Friday, this time to South Korea against participating in the U.N. sanctions. This follows warnings to the U.S. that it will go ahead with high level nuclear and missile tests after the U.N. expanded the sanctions over a rocket launch last month.
A special envoy from Japan met China’s Communist Party chief and expressed the hope that the tensions between the two countries could be resolved.
Thousands of Indonesians come home dead after emigrating abroad to work, and many of them may have been murdered by their employers.
Only about 3.5 percent of the Japanese population is obese, versus rates as high as 30 percent or greater in the U.S.
Syrian refugees are flooding into Jordan in overwhelming numbers with some 20,000 alone crossing the border this past week.
The survivors of the Mumbai terror attack say David Coleman Headley has no right to live as a free man, or even live.
A photo of President Barack Obama with a fly on his forehead was released Thursday by Reuters, and the photo and a video of the moment spread across the Internet faster than he could apparently move to swat the bug away.
An Oregon lawmaker has proposed a bill that would essentially ban the sale and use of cigarettes by requiring that all nicotine products receive a doctor’s prescription.
No, Rush Limbaugh is not dead. "News" of his passing was nothing more than yet another Twitter celebrity death hoax.
Belgian authorities have already rejected an application from Arnault for citizenship.
Hundreds of Twitter users believed a satirical New Yorker article claiming Republicans urged Obama to resign over Beyoncé's lip-syncing.
Andean glaciers are melting at much faster rates as a result of climate change and could disappear altogether in some parts, a new study finds.
Haggis remains a popular dish in Scotland and with the global Scots diaspora.
Thanks to an election, refugees from the Syrian civil war get a taste of living in a free country. But their woes are far from over.
Headley provided crucial information regarding LeT’s links to Pakistani military and intelligence officials.
If you missed it, read the full text of Kerry's testimony during his confirmation hearing for Secretary of State.
Here's a "who's who" to understanding the people, places and issues surrounding the Islamist counterinsurgency in Mali.
During his confirmation hearing on Thursday, U.S. Sen. John Kerry says a fiscally strong America is essential to foreign policy.
North Korea announced it will test a nuclear missile aimed at the U.S., and China may be the only power able to put a stop to it.