Two cars and the locomotive of an Amtrak passenger train carrying about 169 passengers derailed after colliding with a big rig truck in California’s...

Kenyan troops invaded al-Shabab’s last stronghold in Somalia on friday, coming ashore in a predawn assault.Other African Union forces were travelling...

The gunman who opened fire inside a Minneapolis sign-making business killed four people before fatally shooting himself, police said early Friday.The...

President Vladimir Putin has called off a scheduled visit to Islamabad, leading to the postponement of a quadrilateral summit of Pakistan, Russia,...

An Iranian diplomat was escorted from a Manhattan street by New York police after he was surrounded and threatened by an angry mob of protesters near...

The Wikileaks founder Julian Assange accused President Barack Obama of seeking to exploit the Arab uprisings for personal political gain, as he...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that a new world order needs to emerge, away from years of American ‘bullying’ and domination.Ahmadinejad...

A deadly outbreak of the Ebola virus has killed 31 people in northeastern Congo, more than doubling the death toll from a week ago, the UN health...

Turkish security forces fought Kurdish rebels near Turkey’s border with Iraq, killing as many as 75 militants in weeklong clashes, officials said on...

After nightfall on Friday, as red lights began glowing atop the massive Amuay refinery in western Venezuela, the odour of sulphur made its way through...

Haitians began to dig themselves out of the mud, one day after Tropical Storm Isaac doused the Caribbean nation and killed eight people here and...

Mitt Romney’s success in raising hundreds of millions of dollars in the costliest US presidential race ever can be traced in part to a secretive data...