Just weeks ahead of hosting a world forum on sustainable development, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff partially vetoed a ...

Greek voters went to the polls Sunday, delivering huge losses to both main parties that have ruled the ...

Eighteen months after being released from house arrest—and 10 days after it was scheduled to happen—Burma’s democracy icon ...

Marine Le Pen, the French far-right presidential candidate, said she would not support President Nicolas Sarkozy in his ...

Charles Taylor, the notorious former leader of Liberia, was convicted of 11 counts of aiding and abetting war ...

Just days after agreeing to a moratorium on its nuclear program, North Korea threatened conduct “its own-style sacred ...

A day after an international fact-finding mission arrived in Tehran to assess whether Iran’s nuclear program has a ...

With the world population rapidly expanding, global policymakers and influencers are in a race against the clock to ...

Sixty-seven years after the liberation and seven years after the 67th Holocaust Remembrance Day was established, a number ...

The United States, Canada, and Britain all announced fresh sanctions against Iran on Monday.

On March 11, Japan's most powerful earthquake in recorded history shook the Tohoku region in northeast Japan.

In Japan, the enormity of what must be rebuilt is apparent the moment you reach the Tohoku coast. ...

Japan—Suspicion and Helping Hands After the Quake

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has resigned.

The man who attacked Rupert Murdoch with a shaving cream pie has been sentenced to six weeks of ...

Bomb blasts ripped through a main government building in the Norway capital of Oslo on Friday, killing several, ...

The assassination of Ahmed Wali Karzai serves as a serious blow to the president's bid to maintain security ...

The European Food Safety Authority task force has concluded that a single lot of fenugreek seeds imported from ...

Thailand's new prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra took steps on Monday to put as much distance as possible between ...

Yingluck Shinawatra, sister of ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra, has won a landslide victory in the Thai election, as ...

The U.S. presence on Okinawa Island is hotly controversial, particularly among local residents.

While the prospect of the United States defaulting is near unthinkable, still, the Aug. 2 deadline looms.

Successful talks between Thai and Cambodian officials prompted the reopening of two border crossings, two weeks after they ...

The American citizen detained in North Korea for an unspecified crime has confessed and will be indicted, the ...

President Obama delivers speech from Brazil after U.S. forces launch cruise missiles on Libyan air defenses.

At least three demonstrators were killed in Syria on Friday as anti-government protests turned violent in cities of ...

As the United Nations Security Council voted to authorize the use of force in Libya on Thursday, including ...