With the conflict in Libya appearing increasingly like a protracted stalemate, Congress is debating whether it must vote to sanction continued U.S. operations.
The ash clouds from the Grimsvotn volcano in Ireland have forced airlines to cancel the flights across northern Britain on Tuesday. Hundreds of people will be grounded in Scandinavia and Denmark as the ash spreads.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech on Monday to the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) was interrupted by pro-Palestine protesters who heckled him and criticized Israeli policies.
North Korea's secretive leader Kim Jong-il toured east China on Monday, while the U.S. government team flew to North Korea to assess food shortages.
More than 75,000 Twitter users have gone gaga about footballer Ryan Giggs' illicit affair with a former Miss Wales Imogen Thomas.
United States President Barack Obama, as part of the Middle East peace speech on Thursday, called for two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict, which would be based on the 1967 accords.
Harold Camping's hubristic claim that the Second Coming of Jesus will transpire on May 21st has bombed but the octogenarian is far from being fazed as revised with aplomb the apocalyptic date, resetting it for Oct. 21, 2011.
The operation of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was suspended by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, as there were meltdowns of fuel rods at three of the plant's reactors from the damage after the earthquake and tsunami, the company confirmed on Tuesday.
A British politician has defied a court order on Monday by identifying Manchester United's Ryan Giggs as the soccer star fighting a legal battle to avert newspapers from publishing allegations of an affair, a report said
Internet heavyweights are gathering in Paris for a two-day technology forum hosted by French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Armed looters set ablaze parts of Sudan's disputed Abyei border town, days after the UN asked the North-Sudanese troops to seize it on Monday.
A blast at Iran's Abadan's oil refinery during President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit killed one person and injured more than 20 on Tuesday.
British actor and comedian Russell Brand had been deported from Tokyo's Narita Airport, at the weekend.
Investigators have found matching DNA of former IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn with the clothes of the hotel maid who accused him of attempted rape.
The relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States is unique and indispensable, said British Foreign Secretary William Hague.
U.S. President Barack Obama visited Ireland on Monday as a part of his four-nation European tour, which includes Ireland, France and Poland. Check out some of latest photos of the president's visit to Ireland.
NASA has invited the general public to honor American achievements in human spaceflight on Wednesday, May 25, at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington.
NATO airstrikes had killed three people and wounded 150 after a heavy explosion heard in Tripoli on Tuesday, Libyan government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim said.
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad suffered a heart attack and underwent an operation in Texas on Monday.
The Manchester United footballer who had an illicit affair with a former Miss Wales Imogen Thomas was revealed in the Commons yesterday. The footballer in the thick of controversy is none other than Manchester United player Ryan Giggs.
U.S. President Barack Obama begins his visit to Britain where he and Prime Minister David Cameron will hold talks focusing on Libya and the Middle East.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff 's young government faces complexity with its first scandal on Monday, as her chief of staff Antonio Palocci was asked explanations for revelations of his net worth by 20 folds, reported Reuters.
At least 4 service members from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan were killed in a roadside bomb attack on Monday.
A poll conducted after former IMF chief Strauss-Kahn was arrested in New York on attempted rape charges which he denies, shows Nicolas Sarkozy losing by a sizeable margin to either of the likely left-wing challengers -- Francois Hollande or Martine Aubry, reported Reuters.
Yes, there is a 2012 presidential candidate who supports the legalization of marijuana. He's name is Gary Johnson, a wildly popularly former governor of New Mexico who stepped down because he could only govern for two terms.
French Defence Minister Gerard Longuet said that France and Britain would deploy attack helicopters in Libya to achieve more accurate strikes on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's forces, a Reuters report said on Monday.
At a trial, David Coleman Headley, the Chicago based Pakistani American who is accused of providing a front surveillance work in India in the 2008 Mumbai attacks has testified the involvement of at least one Pakistani Inter-Services intelligence directorate and a navy frogman, reported Reuters on Monday.
The Pakistan military finally regained control of the Naval air force after a 16-hour gunbattle with as few as six Taliban gunmen who attached the PNS Mehran base in Karachi late on Sunday.
Smoking in New York City's public places is no longer legal as the law that prohibits smoking in New York City's 1,700 parks, beaches and pedestrian plazas comes into effect Monday.
Tim Pawlenty, the former Minnesota Governor (2003-2011), made his official candidacy-for-president announcement on Sunday May 22, 2011.
