The sinking of the Joola ferry off the coast of west Africa was one of the worst maritime disasters in history.
Slain al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was blind in one eye and had been a member of the Saudi Arabian branch of Muslim Brotherhood in his youth, his successor Ayman al-Zawahiri revealed in a video posted online Wednesday.
An aircraft carrying 19 people, mostly foreigners, crashed on the outskirts of Nepal’s capital Friday, killing everyone on board, Nepalese authorities said.
The Boy Scouts of America admitted in an open letter this week that its response to sex abuse allegations was “plainly insufficient, inappropriate, or wrong.”
Chinese naval ships have carried out patrolling and military training in waters off disputed islands held by Japan, the Defense Ministry said Thursday.
Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the filmmaker behind the movie that sparked days of rioting across the Muslim world, was ordered jailed Thursday by a federal judge on probation violations.
An Iranian diplomat was surrounded and verbally assaulted by anti-Ahmadinejad protesters on Wednesday outside the U.N. He was not hurt.
Israeli PM Netanyahu brought a simple drawing of a bomb into the U.N. chambers Thursday, sparking a small twitter kerfluffle.
Nigeria has suspended Hajj flights to Saudi Arabia to protest the kingdom's detention of Nigerian pilgrims.
Actor Samuel L. Jackson wants you to "Wake the F*** Up" and support Obama.
Iowa is the first swing state to begin early, in-person voting on Thursday. Check out which states offer early- and absentee-voting options.
As he campaigns in Virginia, Romney faulted President Obama for a cutback that could affect the state's military contractors.
An elite Chinese Communist training school is using Maggie Thatcher as a role model and icon.
GOP leaders may have insisted earlier that Akin drop out of the Missouri senate race, but Akin defied them -- and now he appears to have won their renewed support.
Pakistan's Foreign Minister Khar spoke in New York while her personal life appears to be coming undone back home.
Bayer HealthCare agreed to halve the price of the Jadelle progestogen implants for 27 million women in developing countries.
Developments that could alter the election's outcome in Florida and Pennsylvania.
A new estimate from the UN says there may be as many as 700,000 Syrian refugees displaced to neighboring countries by 2012's end.
Clinton says terrorist affiliates are working with other extremists to erode the democratic transition in North Africa, as seen in Benghazi.
Aldo Moro, the former Italian Prime Minister who was kidnapped and murdered by Communist terrorists in 1978, may be beatified by the Vatican, the first step towards sainthood.
President Obama will speak in Virginia, while First Lady Michelle Obama is traveling back to Chicago.
Romney travels to Virginia, where he takes aim at looming military cuts.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad shifted his tone from explosive to relatively reconciliatory at the U.N. General Assembly Wednesday while his Egyptian counterpart Mohamed Morsi, in his debut address, called for a negotiated settlement in Syria, which countered with the comments of the Qatari leader who called for armed intervention to end the crisis.
Scientists who failed to warn citizens ahead of Italy's fatal L'Aquila earthquake of 2009 may face four years in prison if prosecutors get their way.
WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Wednesday mocked U.S. President Barack Obama for advocating the freedom of expression in the Middle East while "persecuting" WikiLeaks for “hacking” the diplomatic cables.
Japan will not compromise with China disputed on disputed islands in the East China Sea since it already has sovereignty over them, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda declared.
Billionaire Alexander Lebedev has been charged with hooliganism in Russia after punching another man in the face on television last year.
The shift makes it easier for Pennsylvanians to get a photo ID, potentially swaying an upcoming ruling on the controversial law.
