Tropical Storm Gabrielle has reformed in the Atlantic and is approaching Bermuda.   The storm's maximum sustained winds early today are near 40 mph with some...

The Obama administration is facing criticism over its attempt to straddle the US federal law that makes marijuana illegal and state laws that permit recreational use of the drug.   In the...

Unions representing high school teachers in Greece have voted to hold "long-term" strikes starting on September 16, in protest at public sector staff cuts ordered by the government as part...

An overcrowded bus plunged into a deep river canyon in northwestern Guatemala yesterday, killing at least 44 people commuting to the capital, officials said.   Grieving families...

An Indian court convicted four men today in the fatal gang rape of a young woman on a moving New Delhi bus, a case that set off waves of protests and gave voice to years of anger over the treatment of...

The Syrian foreign minister has welcomed Russia’s call for Syria to put chemical weapons under international control.   The statement from Walid al-Moallem came a few hours after US...

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...