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Palestinian officials announced Friday that a new date for parliamentary and presidential elections will be set next month now that President Mahmoud Abbas has agreed to postpone theJanuary vote, though the Gaza Strip's... More>>
Russia lacks a viable program for developing a new spacecraft and risks losing its place as a leader in space travel, a veteran Russian cosmonaut said in an interview published Friday. More>>
You can't blame this one on McDonald's: Researchers have found signs of heart disease in 3,500-year-old mummies. More>>
Europe may send 5,000 more soldiers to Afghanistan, Britain's prime minister said Friday - affirming support for the NATO mission as the Obama administration nears a decision on increasing American troop levels. More>>
A newly discovered dinosaur species that roamed the Earth about 200 million years ago may help explain how the creatures evolved into the largest animals on land, scientists in South Africa said Wednesday. More>>
An Ethiopian human rights activist who was jailed for 2 1/2 years said Friday that his country is less free today than it was during its disputed 2005 election. More>>
Text of President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's remarks at a news conference on Friday in Tokyo, as transcribed by the White House. More>>
A female Palestinian student who says she was handcuffed, blindfolded and hauled off to the Gaza Strip by the Israeliarmy in the middle of the night late last month, asked Israel's supreme court Thursday to let her return to... More>>
The architectural showpiece of the 2012 London Olympics is taking shape after the wave-shaped roof of the aquatics center was lowered into place. More>>
Military divers have found the body of a U.S. paratrooper who disappeared last week along with another soldier as the two tried to retrieve airdropped supplies from a river in western Afghanistan, NATO said Wednesday. More>>
Nearly 200 million children in poor countries have stunted growth because of insufficient nutrition, according to a new report published by UNICEF Wednesday before a three-day international summit on the problem of world... More>>
South Korea warned it was ready to deter any retaliation by North Korea following the two countries' first naval clash in seven years, reportedly deploying two warships to the disputed sea border Wednesday. More>>
Amid rising tension between North and South Korea after a naval skirmish, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday urged calm and said diplomatic efforts to resolve the nuclear standoff with the North... More>>
An Italian company that helped build a communications satellite for Iran said Wednesday there are no plans to launch it, denying an announcement made in Tehran this week. More>>
President Barack Obama declared Saturday that an era of American disengagement in the globe's fastest-growing region is over and warned that the U.S. and its Asian partners "will not be cowed" by North Korea's continued... More>>
Defense Secretary Robert Gates says armored transport trucks that protect soldiers from roadside bombs are worth every dime spent on them. More>>
The suicide death of Robert Enke left Germany stunned Wednesday, sending the soccer-obsessed country into mourning and leaving the national team without its top goalkeeper for next year's World Cup. More>>
Gunmen burst into an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and opened fire in a violence-plagued Mexican border state, killing one person and wounding four others, authorities said. More>>
Canadian military officials in Afghanistan said detainees are being offered swine flu vaccinations - a decision the federal health minister on Tuesday denounced as "outrageous" at a time there is a shortage of the vaccine in... More>>
Three years ago, Rose Loving got the visit every GI's family fears. More>>
Stubbornly high joblessness threatens to trigger loan defaults and drag on consumption next year, hobbling a U.S. economy struggling to rebound from recession, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said Wednesday. More>>
Ulrich Sauff and his wife stared at the mammoth domino pieces marking the path where the Berlin Wall once stood and reminisced about life in the barrier's shadow. More>>
Government health officials say swine flu has sickened about 22 million Americans since April. More>>
The United States accused Iran Tuesday of violating a U.N. arms embargo by secretly sending weapons to Syria in a cargo ship seized by Israel, a U.S. official said. More>>
Brazil emerged Wednesday from a widespread power outage that plunged as many as 60 million people into darkness for hours, prompting security fears and concern from residents about another black eye for a country hosting the... More>>
Sister Catherine Bitzer slowly opened a file box and carefully removed a brittle page, scarred by years of neglectful storage, mold and insects. At 415 years old, the marriage record written by a Roman Catholic priest is... More>>
A senior Iranian lawmaker warned Russia that its delay in delivering an anti-aircraft missile defense system to Tehran could harm relations between the two countries, state television reported Sunday. More>>
Police say a U.S. tourist who was pretending to be surfing on the hood of a friend's moving car was killed when he fell and broke his neck in a popular Puerto Rican beach town. More>>
WASHINGTON (CBS/WCSC) - After months of consultations and strategy sessions with the country's top military advisers, President Barack Obama now has a new plan for Afghanistan that will mean a long-term More>>
President Barack Obama hailed the Iraqi parliament's passage Sunday of a much-delayed election law, declaring it a milestone as the Iraqi people take charge of their future. More>>
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton faced sharp rebukes from Pakistani audiences Friday, including one woman who accused the U.S. of conducting "executions without trial" in aerial drone strikes. Slapping back,... More>>
A South Carolina Air National Guard unit is the winner of an international F-16 competition. More>>
An archaeologist says excavations in southern Georgia have turned up artifacts that may pinpoint part of the elusive trail of the 16th-century Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto. More>>
Despite Republican pressure to act quickly, President Barack Obama says he won't rush his decision about whether to send more troops to Afghanistan where 14 Americans died in the deadliest day for U.S. forces in more than... More>>
A bill that would tighten U.S. sanctions against the export of refined petroleum products to Iran has been approved overwhelmingly by the House Foreign Affairs Committee. More>>
Nissan Motor Co. will show off the automaker's all-electric Leaf in a North American tour starting Nov. 13 in Los Angeles. More>>
An Indian car company has chosen upstate New York for a factory to build a new generation of electric cars for North America, a state official said Thursday. More>>
Car bombs and planted explosives killed six people, mostly police, on Tuesday in different areas of Iraq as a low level insurgency continues to target the country's struggling security forces. More>>
A billionaire hedge fund manager charged in a $25 million insider trading case was sued by victims of violence in Sri Lanka who say he helped finance separatist rebels notorious for suicide bombings. More>>
Almost nine out of 10 countries that belong to the United Nations have not paid their dues in full, a senior U.N. official said Wednesday. More>>
Six people died and 14 were still missing after a three-story building collapsed on the outskirts of the country's capital, a police official said Tuesday, as experts warned that irresponsible contractors were to blame. More>>
France Telecom SA said Tuesday it has put all corporate restructuring on hold until at least the end of the year, the company's latest response to a series of 25 suicides by employees in a year and a half. More>>
An archaelogist at Coastal Carolina University plans to talk about her work excavating sites along the Red Sea. More>>
The federal government originally promised 120 million doses of swine flu vaccine by now. Only 13 million have come through. More>>
A record 106 million infants were vaccinated last year against life-threatening diseases, but nearly 1 in 5 babies still aren't fully protected, global health authorities reported Wednesday. More>>
The Obama administration was elated a month ago when the Russian president said sanctions against Iran for its nuclear program could become "inevitable." Washington's reaction may have been significantly premature. More>>
China's recent offer of aid to North Korea could undermine U.N. sanctions against Pyongyang and help feed a cycle of failed negotiations aimed at ending the isolated country's nuclear program, a former U.S. negotiator said... More>>
Nigeria's president said an amnesty granted to militants over the past two months in the oil-rich Niger Delta has restored peace to the region. More>>
The White House said Sunday it sees signs of progress in confronting Iran's nuclear program while members of Congress endorsed authorizing tougher U.S. economic penalties against the Tehran government. More>>
Details released Thursday about the two most recent annual inspection reports on the Ambassador Bridge indicate the 80-year-old international span was structurally sound but had cracked concrete, rusted railings and... More>>
The Syrian-based leadership of the militant Palestinian Hamas said Thursday it has rejected an Egyptian-mediated proposal to reconcile with the rival Fatah group. More>>
Finland plans to provide fast Internet access to all homes and offices by July. More>>
The largest U.S. analysis of hospitalized adult swine flu patients has found almost half were healthy people who did not have asthma or any other chronic illnesses before they got sick. More>>
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says she thinks President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize because of "his attitude toward America's role in the world." More>>
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged the rival leaders of Northern Ireland's power-sharing government Monday to keep making their awkward coalition work for the sake of lasting peace. More>>
The World Health Organization hopes to begin shipping 60 million doses of swine flu vaccine to poor countries in November as part of an effort to protect their fragile health systems from the pandemic, it said Monday. More>>
If you're interested in the history of Eastern Europe under communism, a number of places around the region offer glimpses of life before the Berlin Wall fell. Here are a few of them, ranging from somber museums to historic... More>>
Frommer's has just debuted a new travel guide to Honduras. More>>
Microsoft Corp., which has already shelled out $2.5 billion in antitrust fines in Europe, is on the brink of closing a chapter in its long-running battle with regulators there, just in time for another to begin. More>>
Alitalia says a four-hour strike called for Sunday could cause delays or cancellations of some flights. More>>
Google Inc. is seeing an economic recovery under way, not just in the U.S., but also in Europe, CEO Eric Schmidt said Wednesday. More>>
President Barack Obama wants the federal government to set the example when it comes to global warming. More>>
The global Muslim population stands at 1.57 billion, meaning that nearly 1 in 4 people in the world practice Islam, according to a report Wednesday billed as the most comprehensive of its kind. More>>
Recognizing the U.S. can neither win in Afghanistan nor succeed more broadly against al-Qaida without Pakistan's cooperation, President Barack Obama's war council is weighing a new role for Pakistan in the 8-year-old... More>>
Three Americans won the Nobel prize in medicine on Monday for discovering how chromosomes protect themselves as cells divide, work that has inspired experimental cancer therapies and may offer insights into aging. More>>
Canadian circus tycoon Guy Laliberte turned space into his big top Wednesday, boarding a Russian rocket and lifting off on a mission that mixes a serious message on water shortages with some clowning around in the cosmos. More>>
A prominent African cardinal said Monday there was no reason why the next pope couldn't be black, particularly following the election of President Barack Obama. More>>
They call it kangaroo care: A premature baby nestles skin-to-skin against mom's bare, warm chest. In Malawi, mothers' bodies take the place of too-pricey incubators to keep these fragile newborns alive. More>>
Thousands of people gathered in downtown Chicago stood in stunned silence Friday after watching the International Olympic Committee choose someone else for the 2016 Summer Olympics. More>>
About 4 million people are now getting AIDS drugs worldwide - a 10-fold jump in five years - but 5 million others are still in dire need of the medicine, U.N. health officials estimated in a report issued Wednesday. More>>
A piece of skull with a bullet hole through it that Russian officials claimed belonged to Adolf Hitler actually came from a woman, scientists at the University of Connecticut concluded. More>>
President Barack Obama says his deepest sympathies are with the people of American Samoa and Samoa who lost loved ones after an earthquake sent a massive tsunami toward the Pacific islands. More>>
Iran tested its longest-range missiles Monday, capping two days of war games meant to show the country is ready for any military threat at a time when it is under intense international pressure to fully disclose its nuclear... More>>
Workers at Russia's manned space-launch facility lifted to the launch pad on Monday a rocket that is to send Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte and two astronauts to the International Space Station. More>>
It is a day to get dressed to the nines, listen to the Beatles, get married and to ponder whether this is the end of the world as we know it. Sept. 9, 2009 - or 9/9/09 - is inspiring a number of events Wednesday: discounts... More>>
On Facebook, most people make friends the old-fashioned way - by sending a request to be added to someone's posse of pals. Now, an Australian marketing company hopes to save you time and energy by simply buying you a few... More>>
Sixty-five years ago, 1st Lt. Bernerd Harding huddled in a cellar with a few other airmen captured by German farmers and buried his pilot's wings, fearful he'd be beaten or shot as an American bomber pilot. More>>
The world needs more innovative projects - like putting weather stations on cellular phone towers across Africa - to help it better predict the increased hurricanes, tsunamis, droughts and floods that climate change will... More>>
The answer may be near to a crucial question about vaccine for the advancing swine flu - one shot or two? More>>
Swine flu was four times more likely to send blacks and Hispanics to the hospital than whites, according to a study in Chicago that offers one of the first looks at how the virus has affected different racial groups. More>>
Masked gunmen stormed a mosque Wednesday in western Somalia, killing at least five Pakistani Muslim clerics in a country already bloodied by an Islamic insurgency and where al-Qaida is believed to be gaining a foothold.... More>>
Slovakia observed a day of mourning Wednesday for 20 victims of a fire and explosion in a coal mine, one of the worst accidents in the country's history. More>>
LONDON (AP) — The British government said Friday that it plans to ban private organ transplants from dead donors to allay fears that prospective recipients can buy their way to the front of the line. More>>
It's gritty, it's hip and it's downtown in one of the most dangerous cities in the world. Johannesburg's Newtown cultural precinct is at the heart of life in this city, and a visit reveals just why this is one of Africa's great metropolitan centers. More>>
The Obama administration is looking at creating a courtroom-within-a-prison complex in the U.S. to house suspected terrorists, combining military and civilian detention facilities at a single maximum-security prison. More>>
ROME (AP) — Italy has approved the use of the abortion drug RU-486, capping years of debate and defying opposition from the Vatican, which warned of immediate excommunication for doctors prescribing the pill and for women... More>>
LONDON (AP) — The U.N. unveiled a multimillion dollar strategya dozen years ago to save children worldwide, but a new study has found the program had surprisingly little effect in Bangladesh, one of the world's poorest... More>>
Associated Press - July 17, 2009 2:13 PM ET JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Authorities say suicide attackers had apparently been posing as guests detonated bombs in two luxury hotels in Indonesia's... More>>
Associated Press - July 17, 2009 11:53 AM ET PARIS (AP) - The lawyer for the convicted killer of a young French Jew says his client is appealing his sentence. More>>
Associated Press - July 17, 2009 11:23 AM ET TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Protesters have been squaring off with pro-government militiamen in Tehran's streets today. More>>
Associated Press - July 17, 2009 11:13 AM ET MOSCOW (AP) - The spokesman for Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechnya's strongman leader, says his boss will sue a top human rights organization for claiming he... More>>
Associated Press - July 16, 2009 3:53 AM ET TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's state radio says investigators have recovered 2 of the three black boxes belonging to a Russian-made jetliner that crashed... More>>
Associated Press - July 6, 2009 2:53 PM ET NEWTON, Mass. (AP) - The post-election chaos in Iran is halfway around the globe, but a Web site growing in popularity for its news from Iran is based... More>>
Associated Press - July 6, 2009 1:43 PM ET SAN'A, Yemen (AP) - The Yemen news agency reports that a barber has been publicly executed after he was found guilty of raping and killing an... More>>
Associated Press - July 6, 2009 1:53 PM ET BEIJING (AP) - Chinese state media says that 156 people have been killed in violent riots in the country's western Xinjiang region. More>>
Associated Press - June 25, 2009 12:35 PM ET COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Gov. Mark Sanford is with his family following the startling confession that he has been having a yearlong extramarital affair... More>>
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