Iran will strike back at any location from where attacks against it are mounted, Fars news agency quoted a senior military commander as saying Sunday.

"Any location which is used by the enemy for...

Five policemen and two civilians, including a child, died in a car bomb attack in Afghanistan's Kandahar city Sunday.

"A car bomb (attack) carried out by the enemies and hit Kandahar city at noon...

Officials and experts from 56 OSCE participating states and international organizations meet in Vienna to discuss ways to prevent and suppress money laundering and financing of terrorism (to February...

Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas (left) welcomes a prisoner wearing a Hamas headband following the release of hundreds of prisoners from Israeli jails in...

The Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami damaged many electric power stations. As a result, rolling blackouts and mandatory curbs on power consumption were put in place. The disaster highlighted...

A day after the collapse of a United Nations plan for Syria, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned that the situation on the ground could degenerate into "a brutal civil...

BELGRADE, Serbia - Subzero cold combined with snowstorms continued to claim lives across Europe, bringing the death toll to more than 280 by Sunday - most of the victims were in Ukraine, where 30...

Mashaal says Fatah, Hamas "are serious" about ending division between the two rival Palestinian factions; Abbas says deal will be implemented in "shortest time...

The Association for Religious Soldiers has submitted a complaint to the State Comptroller protesting the treatment of religious soldiers at the IDF's Officer's Training Base.In a letter...

veto a recent United Nations Security Council draft resolution on Syria pressing Syrian President Bashar Assad to abandon power.Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the adoption of the...

In a country where people pause what they're doing and turn up the news on the hour without thinking about it, the need for quality online journalism is...

Abu Dhabi's resurrection of its three-museum project to promote the emirate as a go-to tourist destination will give a boost to its beleaguered local economy. But the presence of local outlets...

DUBAI - Tightening international sanctions against Iran look set to shrink its economy, push up inflation and further erode its currency, but they may fail to deliver a knock-out blow that forces...

Writer Joe Eszterhas, who says he's just a couple of weeks away from completing his script on the Jewish hero Judah Maccabee, says that he's convinced Mel Gibson is the right director for...

Q. Shalom Natalie, I got strep throat and after a course of anti-biotics it came back. I have since had strep throat five times each being treated with a course of anti-biotics. My doctor has...

Hanoi - Laos is investigating a retired justice ministry official for allegedly selling adopted babies to Americans, Canadians and Australians for thousands of dollars each, a report...

A nine-year-old girl is making what doctors described as a remarkable recovery on Sunday, days after surgeons transplanted six of her organs in a groundbreaking medical...

A protest against embattled Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh outside a luxury hotel in New York got heated on Sunday when demonstrators saw him leave the building, with one charging toward him and...

Manila - Abu Sayyaf commander Umbra Jumdail had deviated from the brutal image of his al-Qaeda-linked militant group by playing doctor to poor Filipino villagers, whose backing he needed to stay safe...

In a statement to mark the start of her diamond jubilee year, the Queen - only the second monarch after her great great grandmother Queen Victoria to celebrate 60 years on the British throne - vows...

Graham, Washington - Days after a judge ruled against him in a child custody hearing, a father and his two young sons were killed on Sunday when police said he appeared to intentionally blow up a...

Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney looked to caucus contests in three more states this week hoping to solidify the growing sense of inevitability surrounding his candidacy to challenge...

Josefina Vazquez Mota, presidential hopeful from Mexico's ruling conservative National Action Party shows her ink-stained finger during the primary election to choose the PAN presidential...

Baumgartner will not deploy his parachute until he is less than 5,000ft from the ground and he must rely on an astronaut suit and oxygen tanks to keep him...

I am a survivor of sexual abuse and this story both disturbs and confuses me. Did he know exactly who she was when he sent the friend request? Also if he raped a 14 year old, couldn't that class...

An appeals court ruled on Monday that Alberto Contador, a three-time winner of the Tour de France, used a performance-enhancing drug when he won the race in 2010, the latest black mark on a sport...

PARIS: French airports announced some delays and cancellations on the first day of a four-day strike by aviation workers Monday but flight disruptions were initially limited.At Paris's Charles...

DAMASCUS: Syrian forces on Monday pounded the powderkeg city of Homs with rockets and mortars, killing 17 people and wounding scores amid outrage over a Russia-China veto of a UN resolution to stop...

BEIRUT: Syrian forces launched a fresh bombardment of the city Homs at dawn on Monday, killing at least 12 people and wounding many more, activists and correspondents said.The new assault, which...

Steve Appleton in an plane accident in Boise, Idaho. Micron is based in Boise. It is a worldwide provider of advanced semiconductors for many industries. Micron makes DRAM, NAND and NOR flash memory...

The Romanian prime minister today announced the immediate resignation of himself and his government, saying he wanted to protect the stability of the...

A wounded girl is seen in Baba Amro, a neighbourhood of Homs February 6, 2012. (REUTERS/Handout) BEIRUT - Syrian forces bombarded Homs on Monday, killing 50 people in a sustained assault on several...

Barack Obama has said he believes Israel remains undecided about a possible attack on Iran, as the threat of war between the two nations continues to...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian forces bombarded Homs on Monday, killing 50 people in a sustained assault on several districts of the city which has become a centre of armed opposition to President Bashar...

LONDON (Reuters) - To get an idea of the economic mountain euro zone strugglers Greece and Portugal have to climb, consider this: per million inhabitants, they each filed fewer than eight...

GAZA - The leaders of the rival Palestinian movements Fatah and Hamas announced on Monday that they have broken a long political deadlock and formed an interim unity government led, at least at...

An image taken from a video posted by Syrian opposition activists to the Youtube shows smoke rising from buildings in the city of Homs after an apparent rocket or mortar strike, Feb. 6, 2012....

Gerald Hatch and his wife, Ruth were killed in a fiery plane crash of their small aircraft in northern Arizona. Hatch owned car dealerships in rural northern Arizona, according to KFY1-550 AM in...

Police believe 829 people were "likely" victims of phone-hacking by newspapers, the Leveson Inquiry has heard. Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers confirmed to the inquiry that 581 of...

The US has demanded "clarification" over Cairo's apparent plans to put dozens of pro-democracy activists, including 19 US citizens, on trial over charges of illegal funding of aid...

Emil Boc, Romania's prime minister, has resigned after weeks of nationwide protests against a slew of austerity measures and months before a parliamentary election. "It is the moment for...

At least two people have been killed and dozens are feared trapped after a factory collapsed in Pakistan's second largest city of Lahore, an emergency official has said. Records indicate there...

Myanmar's election commission has given Aung San Suu Kyi, the opposition leader and Nobel Peace laureate, the green light to run for parliamentary by-elections. Monday's decision adds to a...

Anatoly Antonov, Russia's lead negotiator with NATO on the planned Western European missile-defense system, said the discussions have reached "a dead end." In an interview with...

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has called for more direct democracy in Russia in another article outlining his presidential campaign platform. In an article in the "Kommersant" newspaper,...

Activists and residents say Syrian forces have launched a fresh bombardment of the flashpoint central city Homs, killing at least 15 people and injuring 150. The renewed assault by government...

The French and German leaders are meeting in Paris for annual talks that are likely to be dominated by discussions of the continent's financial and economic woes. German Chancellor Angela...

Witnesses say Assad troops using rocket launchers, military helicopters against city; explosion rocks oil pipeline feeding a main refinery; activist: "Homs is witnessing a real...