French prosecutors said on Friday that they are looking witness testimony that suggests disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn took part in...

A Franco-Algerian nuclear physicist was sentenced to five years in jail on Friday - with one year suspended - for plotting terror attacks in France....

A federal appeals court has granted immunity to a former Bush administration official from a lawsuit by a US citizen claiming he was tortured under...

Russia said on 3 May its dispute with the United States over missile defence was near a ‘dead end’ and warned it might have to deploy new rockets in...

Scientists have witnessed the rare spectacle of a supermassive black hole devouring a star that had ventured too close - an event that occurs about...

Eritrea has surpassed North Korea as the world's top press censor, with Syria and Iran placing third and fourth in a new list published today by the...

The soldiers who staged a putsch in Mali five weeks ago said today that they had defeated an overnight counter-coup by forces loyal to ousted...

UN chief Ban Ki-moon met Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi today for talks about the country's political future after a surprise...

Oil was down in quiet Asian trade today on forecasts of a US stockpile gain as well as amplified worries over the eurozone after Spain announced that...

A strong second half performance from unfancied Levante saw them maintain their push for a place in the Champions League with a 3-1 win over Granada....

'Two suicide attackers and two bodyguards of the governor have been killed in the attack,' Kandahar government spokesman Zalmay Ayobi told AFP.The...

Police in Tehran are conducting a new crackdown on women wearing the mandatory headscarves improperly or in 'vulgar' dress, the city's police chief...