A single-engine plane, carrying children on a ski vacation to the Rocky Mountains, crashed on approach to an airport in Montana on Sunday, killing 17 people, the Federal Aviation Administration ...

A federal judge Saturday ordered Dick Cheney to preserve a wide range of the records from his time as vice president. The decision by U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly is a setback for ...

Direct peace negotiations with the Afghan Taliban cannot succeed before they distance themselves from Al Qaida.

A court in Atlanta sentenced a convicted murderer on Saturday to life in prison after he killed a judge in a courtroom and three other people in stunning escape from custody, prosecutors said ...

A 15 year old boy has been issued a summons for carrying an anti scientology placard. The boy was taking part in a peaceful May 10 demonstration in London organised by the Anonymous group ...

Premier Silvio Berlusconi is moving the Cabinet to Naples on Wednesday, vowing to clean the city's streets of the garbage that has piled up for months and become a stinking symbol of government ...

Rio de Janeiro is a city where the Samba school championship is coveted as jealously as a major soccer cup and when Beija-Flor (Portuguese for humming bird) hits Rio de Janeiro's Sambadrome on ...

Top Democratic leaders intend to push for a quick end to the battle for the presidential nomination between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton when primaries are over next week.

India’s PM Manmohan Singh underwent successful coronary bypass surgery on Saturday, while confusion emerged about who would be in charge of government just months before the election. "The ...

A suspected U.S. drone fired a missile on Friday into Pakistan's tribal region of Waziristan on the Afghan border, killing 10 people, security officials said. It was the latest in a string of ...

Swabian manufacturer and billionaire Adolf Merckle died when a train struck him on Monday evening at about 17.30 near his home in the southern German town of Ulm. He was assailed by financial ...

Sarah Palin, the brash, deeply conservative governor of Alaska who crashed onto the U.S. national political scene last year as the Republican candidate for U.S. vice president, announced abruptly ...