The expected admission of Palestine as a nonmember state in the United Nations is far more than a symbolic vote. For the Palestinians, the move gives them an important boost of international...

A large, early snowstorm raging in Moscow disrupted flights and created havoc on the roads on Thursday.   Yelena Temakina, chief of the forecast department at Moscow's Meteorological...

The Palestinians are certain to win U.N. recognition as a state Thursday in a General Assembly vote that Israel and the United States warn could delay hopes of achieving an independent Palestinian...

A U.N. war crimes tribunal on Thursday acquitted the former prime minister of Kosovo and two of his former Kosovo Liberation Army comrades for the second time of murdering and torturing Serbs and...

Egypt's highest appeal courts suspended their work Wednesday to protest presidential decrees that gave the country's Islamist leader Mohammed Morsi nearly absolute powers, state television...

A man who plotted to organize suicide bombings on Moscow's iconic Red Square on New Year's Eve 2010 was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in jail.   Ilyas Saidov, an Islamic militant,...

Lynne Jones' cozy bed and breakfast in Britain's Lake District boasts views over the River Greta where heron come to feed, and a panoramic vista of Skiddaw mountain.   Jones says her...

The online version of China's Communist Party newspaper has hailed a report by The Onion naming North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un as the "Sexiest Man Alive" — apparently unaware it...

China is at a crucial point today, as it was in 1978, when the market reforms launched by Deng Xiaoping opened its economy to the world – and as it was again in the early 1990’s, when...

    France announced Tuesday that it plans to vote in favor of recognizing a Palestinian state at the U.N. General Assembly this week.   With the announcement, France becomes...