CBS News had essentially given up its pursuit of Syrian President Bashar Assad for an interview because he would not agree to go on "60 Minutes," until Charlie Rose suggested airing it on...

Saying their crime shocked the conscience of India, the prosecutor in the fatal New Delhi gang rape called today for all four convicted rapists to be hanged, while one of the defendants...

A Soyuz capsule carrying three astronauts touched down to Earth early today after undocking from the International Space Station following 166 days in space.   American Chris...

A powerful car bomb exploded today near Libya's Foreign Ministry building in the heart of the eastern coastal city of Benghazi, security officials said, exactly one year after an attack...

BEIRUT (AP) — A Russian plan for Syria to turn over its chemical weapons to avert Western missile strikes has bogged down after Moscow rejected U.S. and French demands for a binding U.N....

A lawyer found he couldn't sneak into court late, at least not wearing jeans and blue suede sneakers.   Judge Ioan Adrian Chitoiu slapped defence lawyer Catalin Dancu with a...

A British jury has cleared Michael Le Vell, a longtime star of the British soap opera "Coronation Street," of child sex abuse charges.    The 48-year-old actor was found not...

Men's aptitude for childcare may be reflected in the size of their testes, according to a study by US scientists, the study of which was published in yesterday’s The Guardian online...

Syria has accepted a Russian proposal to place its chemical weapons under international control for dismantling, the Syrian foreign minister said today, amid a flurry of diplomatic activity aimed at...

About one in 10 men in some parts of Asia admitted raping a woman who was not their partner, according to the first large studies of rape and sexual violence. When their wife or girlfriend was...