Russia has many motives to keep supporting Syria's dictator -- e.g., arms contracts, naval base access -- but energy is the real reason.
Abortion is illegal in Morocco, but a boat owned by Dutch group Women on Waves aims to distribute pregnancy-terminating medicine there this week.
President Barack Obama is designating the California home of labor leader Cesar Chavez as a national monument
Russia, Turkey and the US have all denied a report in Arab media that Moscow was involved in the mysterious downing of a Turkish jet off Syria's coast in June.
Womens group and the opposition are demanding an apology for sexist comments made by the coal minister.
Five months after passage, Arizona's HB2625, dubbed the Arizona Birth Control Bill, is back in the spotlight. This bill gives employers the right to refuse to provide insurance coverage for birth control pills if the drug is being used to prevent pregnancy.
Georgia's parliamentary election results so far spell victory for opposition coalition Georgian Dreams, led by billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili. Now what?
Far-right anti-Islam Dutch politician Geert Wilders has postponed a speaking tour in Australia due to suspected deliberate delays in obtaining a visa.
Don't count Romney out like they did in Massachusetts in 2002. That time, he came from behind to win, and here's how he did it.
Brazil has deployed thousands of troops into the slums of Rio de Janeiro in order to crack down on voter intimidation by drug lords and militias during municipal elections.
The controversial measure will not be in effect for the election.
Romney clarified a key piece of his immigration platform, before debating Obama in a state with a rising Latino population.
An Iranian photographer and cameraman who was part of Ahmadinejad's entourage at the U.N. has defected and applied for asylum in the U.S.
Vice President Joe Biden travels to North Carolina; Obama has an 18-point edge over Romney among female voters.
Romney girds for the debates, sheds some light on his immigration stance.
A video clip posted online shows Austin Tice, an American journalist who has been missing in Syria alive and apparently being held hostage by gunmen.
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos joins a long list of Latin American leaders who have been diagnosed with cancer.
Three of the arrested crewmen worked on a vessel owned by Hong Kong Electric, and the other three crewmen were from the other vessel.
Zuma is trying to get away with using nearly $25 million in taxpayer money to upgrade his house. This raised a few eyebrows.
Pope Benedict XVI’s former butler Paolo Gabriele is set to take the stand for the first time Tuesday, the second day of his trial, for stealing the confidential documents which he said was an attempt to expose corruption in the Vatican.
North Korea criticized the U.S. at the U.N. General Assembly Monday for its “hostile” policy towards Pyongyang that has left the Korean peninsula a “spark” away from a “thermonuclear war.”
A boat en route to the famed Victoria Harbor, carrying the employees of Hong Kong’s electric company and their families to watch fireworks display, collided with a commuter ferry Monday night and sank leaving at least 36 people dead, news agencies reported citing Hong Kong authorities.
The world population is getting older with every passing year. This is one aging process that cannot be ignored.
Hungary will now ban slot machines in an effort to protect the poor from fiscal self-destruction via gambling.
NATO has resumed its partnered missions with Afghan Security Forces, following a suspension of operations due to insider attacks.
Georgia’s parliamentary election on Monday, between parties led by President Mikhail Saakashvili and Bidzina Ivanishvili, comes to a close amid premature results projections.
While political leaders butt heads over the future of the Bush tax cuts, the payroll tax holiday will likely expire next year.
The Syrian foreign minister accused the U.S. and other nations of supporting "terrorism" in his country, during a speech to the U.N.
A former Pakistani legislator has offered a $200,000 bounty for the killing of the maker of the anti-Islam film “Innocence of Muslims.”
Unknown attackers in London stabbed an Indian general who was famed for leading a deadly raid against the Golden Temple in Punjab in 1984.
