A Royal Navy warship has met and tracked a group of Russian military ships entering the English Channel in an operation that the Ministry of Defense repeatedly stressed was a routine...

Archeologists have found a tomb dating back to around 1100 B.C. south of Cairo, Egypt's Antiquities Ministry said Thursday.   Antiquities Minister Mohamed Ibrahim said that the tomb...

Anti-Mafia prosecutors say they have arrested a former Silvio Berlusconi aide for allegedly helping a southern Italian businessman convicted of Mafia association.   Authorities on Thursday...

A landmark U.N. resolution aimed at preventing terrorists from obtaining weapons of mass destruction has accomplished a great deal in the last decade, with one notorious step backward: the use of...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia has pulled back its troops from the Ukrainian border and called for Sunday's referendum on autonomy in Ukraine's restive east to be...

Former Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has warned that Russia poses a serious threat to its neighbors, including the three ex-Soviet republics that form the Baltic states.   The founder...

South Korea's prime minister on Wednesday called for searches for people believed trapped inside a sunken ferry to be completed by the weekend.   More than 30 people are listed as...

One of the eight circus acrobats who plummeted about 20 feet (6 meters) to the ground during a hair-hanging stunt said Tuesday she's thankful she's alive and wants to return to the...

A US deep-ocean exploration firm has recovered nearly 1,000 ounces of gold, worth $1.3m, on a dive to a historic Atlantic Ocean shipwreck, company officials say.   The discovery has renewed...

A spy plane was responsible for a computer glitch that caused air-traffic chaos in western US states last week, the Federal Aviation Administration has revealed.   The meltdown occurred when...