The Israeli prime minister was strongly rebuked on Friday by the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who angrily questioned him on Israel's refusal to back down on settlement...

Helicopter gunships belonging to Pakistan have pounded Taliban hideouts in the north-western tribal district, killing at least 13...

Drug violence in Western Mexico has led to the deaths of three people who worked within the walls of the US consulate in Ciudad...

Georgia’s president, Mikheil Saakashvili, has complimented a local television channel that sparked panic by broadcasting a drama which implied that the country was being...

A Christian maid has allegedly been burned alive to prevent her from reporting a rape in the Pakistani province of...

A candidate for governor in Atlanta, Georgia has been arrested for allegedly threatening singer Elton...

In a plan being devised by the UK government, the country’s House of Lords could be...

Israel has arrested a leader of the Palestinian Hamas...

In Iraq, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's political coalition has taken the lead after last weekend’s...

Many backers of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra from all over Thailand are converging on...

Drug related violence in Mexico has left another 25 people dead, four of them from...

In Canada, three people are dead while others are still buried under piles of snow, after an avalanche hit a snowmobile competition near Revelstoke, British...

Iran has dismantled several opposition Internet networks it says were backed by the...

The Vatican has denounced attempts to involve the pope in scandals surrounding paedophile activity within the Catholic...

Suicide bombers have killed around 30 people in Kandahar City,...

President Barack Obama of the US is now pushing for education...

Israel appears surprised by a rebuke from the US administration about its new settlement...

Iraq ’s parliamentary elections last week and no clear winners likely to emerge anytime soon, public frustration here seems to be growing. American officials have privately expressed concern...

“They disguise, reveal, mirror our innermost being or help to hide it,” Mr. Kempa says on his Web site. Mr. Kempa has photographed dozens of people with and without their clothing, and is...

KABUL, Afghanistan — A day after five lethal bombs shook Kandahar, officials appealed Sunday to the central government to send more security forces and expand intelligence gathering in the...

President Nicolas Sarkozy appeared to be beaten by the opposition Socialists on Sunday in a first round of regional elections marked by a record abstention, according to partial official results...

PARIS — When asked how governments ought to deal with freeloaders who illegally copy music and movies on the Internet, James Murdoch, head of News Corp.’s European and Asian operations,...

The Obama administration refused to let go of the Ramat Shlomo construction controversy Sunday, with two top aides to US President Barack Obama slamming Israel amid a growing sense in Jerusalem that...

Brazilian President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva arrived Sunday for the first-ever visit of a Brazilian president, but – along with warm words from his hosts about the “historic” visit – he is...

The Jerusalem Post and authored by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center is the first real, aggressive Israeli response to the Goldstone Report, taking it apart piece-by-piece and...

Jerusalem’s historic Hurva Synagogue, which was last destroyed by Jordan’s Arab Legion on May 25, 1948, and has been rebuilt after nearly a decade of construction, will be rededicated during a...

WASHINGTON: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday offered her "deepest sympathies" to the families of two Americans and a Mexican with ties to the US consulate, who were fatally shot in the...

KHARTOUM: Two French aid workers abducted in the Central African Republic and held for four months were on Sunday freed in Darfur, the Sudanese region gripped by civil war and a wave of kidnappings....

SANAA: A Yemeni air raid against a "terrorist cell" in the southeast of the country has killed two senior Al-Qaeda members, the defence ministry said early Monday. "Our air force carried out a raid...

Shrink BRITISH COLUMBIA, Canada - An avalanche that killed at least two people at an informal snowmobile rally in Canada's Rocky Mountains may have been triggered by three daredevil sledders who...

The population of Oakville, Iowa, has dwindled to 160 from 439, since its levee was breached by the Iowa River. By Rodney White, The Des Moines...

President Paul Kagame has openly warned his leading rival Victoire Ingabire, leader of the UDF, that she could face prosecution under Rwanda's controversial "genocide ideology"...

Russia's top public health official has called for a ban on sales of alcohol after 9pm, as part of a Kremlin-led campaign to crackdown on alcohol abuse, state-run news agency RIA reported. ...

They call him the "mini-minister", and if one of his attractions for the modestly scaled Berlusconi is that the Italian Prime Minister has a good 10 or 11 inches on him, Renato Brunetta has made good...

Here in New Zealand's capital, where I'm talking at the literary festival about my book, Leviathan or, the Whale, the subject of whales and whaling is not a remote one. Last Thursday, in a staged...

Two people were killed, 30 injured and others feared buried in the snow after an avalanche struck a mountain snowmobile rally near Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canadian police said yesterday. ...

Deadly bomb attacks in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar were a warning to Nato's senior general that the Taliban are ready for a coming offensive in their heartland, Taliban spokesman Qari...

More than 100,000 protesters converged in Bangkok yesterday and gave Thailand's military-backed government an ultimatum to call elections within 24 hours or face crippling demonstrations across the...

A British skier has been found dead in Andorra after apparently separating from friends and getting lost in freezing temperatures after a night out. Paul Rea, 24, from Milnthorpe in Cumbria, was...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday the announcement of more houses for religious jews in East Jerusalem was made in 'all...

Russia's army mounted a massive invasion of Georgia over the weekend, its planes bombed the capital Tbilisi, and President Mikheil Saakashvili was assassinated. None of this actually happened, but it...

President Paul Kagame has openly warned his leading rival Victoire Ingabire, leader of the UDF, that she could face prosecution under Rwanda's controversial "genocide ideology"...

Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, left, was arrested in connection with an alleged plot to kill a Swedish artist, days after terror charges were revealed against a second American woman Colleen LaRose, who...

(CNN) -- Half a million homes remained without power across the Northeast and mid-Atlantic region on Sunday, as rain continued to pound states from West Virginia to Connecticut for a second...

And "Avatar," clearly at the end of its box office run, is still holding in theaters in a big way. The movie only dropped 19 percent despite being in a fraction of 3-D screens compared to...

Every rape victim should have a specialist adviser to support them after an attack, a major review in England and Wales has recommended.The review's author, Baroness Stern, said that police and...

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has arrived in Israel where he begins a tour of the Middle East.He is visiting Israel, the Palestinian territories and Jordan ahead of a more...

Two key treatments do not halt diabetes in people with early signs of the disease, a large study has found.Researchers said the results showed the only way to ensure future health in people at high...

CHINESE premier Wen Jiabao yesterday spurned foreign calls for the value of the yuan to rise and continued scolding the United States over recent...

t, the start of indirect talks without freezing settlement activities in the West Bank and Jerusalem is a sort of victory. As the indirect talks were preparing to get off the ground, Israel's...