The cross-party campaign in Britain to legalise the right to die took a significant step forward last night when the former archbishop of Canterbury, Dr George Carey, announced his support for the...

Ukraine has vowed to make pro-Russian rebels pay after losing 23 servicemen in clashes across the separatist east, while Russia proposed a UN resolution demanding a ceasefire to Europe's deadliest...

With the official Palestinian count of the dead passing 100, and rockets fired by militants striking Israel from the Gaza Strip and from Lebanon, Israel's prime minister on Friday brushed off a...

Israel's prime minister vowed Friday to press forward with a broad military offensive in the Gaza Strip, saying international pressure will not halt what he said was a determined effort to halt...

Pro-Russia rebels fired missiles Friday at government troops near the Russian border, killing at least 19 servicemen, Ukraine's Defense Ministry said, adding that four other troops died elsewhere...

An official close to the Russian Federal Migration Service said that Russia will probably extend Edward Snowden’s asylum because “his life is endangered”.   After leaking...

The head of the weekly newspaper Unity Journal and four of its journalist were sentenced to 10 years in prison and hard labor in Myanmar yesterday. They were convicted of violating the State Secrets...

A local Japanese politician, who was seen sobbing over dubious spending in a video that went viral, resigned Friday.   Ryutaro Nonomura, 47, a Hyogo Prefectural assemblyman, submitted his...

Rockets fired from Lebanon struck Israel early Friday as long-range missile fire from Gaza continued against the country for a fourth day.   Israeli military spokesman Lt. Col....

Two months before police say a high-priced prostitute calmly left a Google executive dying from a heroin overdose on his yacht, the woman panicked on the phone with a police dispatcher as her...