Syrian troops captured a western town near the border with Lebanon on Thursday, after days of heavy fighting that killed dozens including nine doctors and nurses and the nephew of a Hezbollah cabinet...

With one thunderous crash, Brazil's troubled preparations for the World Cup are thrown in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons, just as soccer gears up for the high-profile setting of the...

Latvia's prime minister resigned on Tuesday after accepting political responsibility for the collapse of a supermarket roof in the capital that killed 54 people.   Valdis...

Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and Germany's main centre-left party have reached a deal to form a new government, more than two months after the country's...

Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party has withdrawn support for the government of Premier Enrico Letta on the eve of a Senate vote to kick the media magnate out of Parliament because of his tax...

An independent Scotland would continue to use the pound sterling as its currency, remain in the European Union and join the NATO military alliance, Scotland's government said...

MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press         TOKYO (AP) — A proposed state secrecy law in Japan that imposes stiffer penalties — on bureaucrats who leak secrets...

Just outside the rustic village, children fished in a tranquil pond bobbing with green algae and lined with willow trees, as cattle grazed nearby.   Now, Rezak Motanic gazes in disbelief...

In an age of skyrocketing unemployment, it may seem reasonable to assume that companies do not have to worry about finding workers. But a recent McKinsey survey of more than 2,800 employers worldwide...

The rival leaders of ethnically divided Cyprus on Monday failed to agree on resuming stalled talks aimed at reunifying the country.   Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot...