World
(9/6/2010) One of Australia's kingmaker independent lawmakers said Tuesday he will support opposition leader Tony Abbott's conservative coalition after inconclusive elections, bringing the conservatives cl... 
(9/6/2010) The bodies of three men suspected of participating in the massacre of 72 migrants last month were found by the side of a road in northern Mexico after an anonymous caller told authorities where ...
(9/6/2010) North Korea requested a shipment of rice, cement and heavy equipment days after South Korea offered relief aid to its communist neighbor to help it recover from recent flooding, the Unification ...
(9/6/2010) A state government in Australia has agreed to turn over case documents to prosecutors in the U.S. hoping to charge an Alabama man with the drowning death of his wife during a honeymoon scuba div...
(9/6/2010) Criminals who plead guilty within six weeks of their arrest could get a 40 percent reduction in their prison sentence under a proposal aimed at reducing the backlog at courts in one Australian s...
(9/6/2010) A sharp series of about 20 aftershocks rattled New Zealand's earthquake-hit city of Christchurch overnight, and earthquake experts warned Tuesday that another powerful temblor might hammer the r...
(9/6/2010) The U.N. children's agency says it has failed to reach millions of the world's neediest boys and girls in slums and remote countryside and is shifting to a strategy of getting critical health ca...
(9/6/2010) Former Surinamese dictator Desi Bouterse shrugged off questions about his past during his first overseas trip as elected president, saying Monday that he will not interfere in his ongoing murder...
(9/6/2010) Former Surinamese dictator Desi Bouterse shrugged off questions about his past during his first overseas trip as elected president, saying Monday that he will not interfere in his ongoing murder...
(9/6/2010) Egypt's leading democracy advocate made a forceful call Monday for the nation to boycott November's parliamentary election, saying they were certain to be rigged and urging his young supporters ...
(9/6/2010) An Indonesian volcano shot black ash three miles (5,000 meters) into the air early Tuesday — its most powerful eruption since springing back to life after four centuries of dormancy. ...
(9/6/2010) Soldiers opened fire on a family's car at a military checkpoint in northern Mexico, killing a 15-year-old boy and his father, authorities and relatives said Monday.
(9/6/2010) As the disastrous floods recede in Pakistan, something new is rising: suspicions and rumors that powerful officials and landowners used their influence to divert water away from their property a...
(9/6/2010) The "marker" lurks inside the bank, looking for people pulling large amounts of cash from a safe deposit box or bank account. The gunmen linger outside, usually on motorcyles, waiting to make th...
(9/6/2010) GlaxoSmithKline's controversial diabetes pill Avandia should be pulled from the U.K. market because of concerns that the drug can increase the risk of heart attacks, British drug regulators said...
(9/6/2010) A Russian regional leader who claims to have visited an alien spaceship says he is retiring.
(9/6/2010) Police investigators say a radical Muslim sect has killed a retired police officer and a market trader in northern Nigeria, the latest targeted shootings blamed on the group.
(9/6/2010) European ministers on Monday discussed ways to crack down on illegal immigration, block false asylum demands and harmonize EU immigration policy so that one country's solution doesn't become ano...
(9/6/2010) Police in Ecuador say 15 people were killed and at least seven injured when a drunken man drove an SUV into a crowded bus stop in the coastal city of Guayaquil.
(9/6/2010) On a hilltop overlooking Caracas, dozens of shacks made of wood scraps and corrugated zinc have risen among tall weeds — a new slum tacked on to an old one as the poor face harder times in...