ISLAMABAD—A suicide bomber blew himself up today in the lobby of the U.N. food agency in Islamabad, killing three people just a day after the new...

STOCKHOLM—Americans Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak were named winners of the 2009 Nobel Prize in medicine today for research...

Hundreds of insurgents armed with automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades stormed a pair of remote outposts near the Pakistan border, killing eight...

WASHINGTON—Military families and peace activists are lining up more than 800 empty combat boots near the White House to protest the war in Afghanistan...

President Barack Obama had a message yesterday for the many people—including himself—who put “heart and soul” into Chicago’s...

In the first glimpse of him since his capture more than three years ago, a thin but healthy-looking Israeli soldier said in a video released Friday that...

President Barack Obama’s spokesman says Obama is “disappointed” that Chicago lost out on getting the 20016 Olympics but not sorry he...

Rescuers pulled two women alive from their collapsed college, nearly two days after a powerful earthquake devastated western Indonesia, as cries for help...

A German court said Friday it has ruled that John Demjanjuk can be tried on charges of being an accessory to the murder of thousands at a Nazi death camp,...

Austrian police say they have detained 10 suspected human traffickers who allegedly smuggled several hundred people from the Balkans into the European...

Canadian circus billionaire Guy Laliberte and two space crew have boarded the International Space Station in orbit above Earth.

The decision to turn a man who shunned foreign-made products and pushed simple living to new extremes into a “brand ambassador” — as...

Rivers of mud unleashed by heavy rains overnight flooded parts of the Sicilian city of Messina, leaving at least 17 people dead while sweeping away cars...

An American soldier was killed in a mortar attack at a sprawling base on the western edge of the Iraqi capital, the U.S. military said Friday, an attack...

Indonesia’s Health Ministry says nearly 3,000 people may still be trapped under rubble after a powerful earthquake two days ago.

Tens of thousands of villagers fled the likely path of a powerful typhoon bearing down Friday on the Philippines, as the government braced for the possibility...

WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama is expressing appreciation for Indian spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi. Gandhi was born on Oct. 2, 1869, and...

Iran and six world powers ended a landmark meeting Thursday with an agreement to take a new stab at overcoming years of mistrust generated by Tehran’s...

Spanish police have arrested 74 people suspected of possessing and distributing child pornography photographs and videos on the Internet.

ISTANBUL—A protester threw a shoe at IMF Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn but missed during a conference at an Istanbul university today. The man...

With the rest of China awash in red flags and cheering crowds for National Day, hundreds of Hong Kongers — many wearing black — protested Thursday,...

The re-election strategy for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki took shape Thursday as he unveiled a broad alliance for January’s parliamentary...

Stunned Samoans combed through the sodden wreckage of their lives and told of the terror of being trapped underwater or flung inland by a tsunami that...

A British coroner says a girl who died after receiving a vaccine against cervical cancer was likely killed by a tumor.

Rescue workers pulled victims, some screaming in pain, from the heavy rubble of buildings felled by a powerful earthquake that killed at least 777 people....

ISTANBUL, Turkey—The world economy is recovering from recession faster than expected thanks to government stimulus packages, new forecasts from the...

Austrian authorities say an international operation has netted 22 people suspected of belonging to a child pornography ring and identified a total of 136...

Indonesia’s meteorological agency says a powerful earthquake has shaken western Indonesia.

China’s capital was wrapped in tight security and thick fog Wednesday as police blocked off Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City and other popular...

One of the most destructive storms in years extended its deadly path across Southeast Asia, blowing down wooden villages in Cambodia and crushing Vietnamese...