President Barack Obama conceded yesterday night he might lose his fight for congressional support of a military strike against Syria, and declined to say what he would do if lawmakers reject...

Documents leaked by Edward Snowden indicate the National Security Agency spied on Brazil's state-run oil company, the private computer networks of Google and a company that facilitates most of the...

Former Premier Silvio Berlusconi is turning to Europe's human rights court in a bid to avoid a ban on public office and other punishments for his tax fraud conviction, the media mogul's aides...

The US government insists it has the intelligence to prove it, but the public has yet to see a single piece of concrete evidence produced by US intelligence — no satellite imagery, no...

The daughter of Libya's ex-spy chief under dictator Muammar Gaddafi was released by her abductors after her tribe cut off the capital's water supply, officials said...

The Van Gogh Museum says it has identified a long-lost Vincent Van Gogh painting that spent years in a Norwegian attic believed to be by another painter. It is the first full-size canvas by the Dutch...

Secretary of State John Kerry said today that Syrian President Bashar Assad could resolve the crisis surrounding his purported use of chemical weapons by turning "every single bit" of his...

Thai Airways International flight arriving at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport late on Sunday night skidded off the runway as it touched down.   Thirteen passengers were injured while...

Libya's prime minister faced increasing calls for his ouster on Saturday as strikes by government employees at oil export terminals cost the North African country more than $5 billion in...

Egyptian helicopter gunships and tanks pounded suspected hideouts and weapon caches of Islamic militants, killing nine people Saturday in the northern Sinai Peninsula in what locals say is the largest...