Heavy rains in Sri Lanka\'s North Central and Eastern provinces have displaced almost a million people and caused widespread devastation, a government official said Saturday.

Three Pakistan international cricketers have been banned from the sport for the next five years after being found guilty at an anti-corruption hearing on Saturday.

A protest erupted Saturday in a village in northern Indian-administered Kashmir after the killing of a man by the Indian army late Friday or early Saturday.

Two explosions wounded at least 16 people Saturday in Salaheddin province, police officials in Samarra said.

Somalia\'s transitional parliament extended its term by three years without consulting with the local population and other allies to find a way forward for the war-torn country, a U.S. official said Saturday.

Thousands sang patriotic sangs and danced Friday in Tahrir Square, but tensions remained high. Street battles between pro- and anti-regime groups raged near the square. FULL STORY | UNREST DAY BY DAY | PICS | VIDEO

Amid growing unrest about poor public services and water shortages, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Friday agreed to cut his salary in half.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Regulators have shut down a small Georgia bank, marking the 12th bank failure of 2011 following 157 closures last year amid the sagging economy and mounting bad l..

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration on Friday declined to cite China for manipulating its currency to gain trade advantages against the United States.  The Treasury Dep..

A Danish court sentenced a Somali man to nine years in prison Friday for the attempted attack on a cartoonist who drew an image of the Muslim prophet Mohammed wearing a bomb-shaped turban.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House says it's working with the U.S. embassy in Cairo on getting American journalists who've been beaten or detained out of Egypt. Press secretary Robe..

CAIRO (AP) - Egypt's official Middle East News Agency says more than 160,000 foreigners have left the country since the start of mass protests demanding the president's ouster. &nb..

DALLAS (AP) - Another blast of winter weather slammed Dallas with up to 5 inches of snow Friday, making driving hazardous and prompting the cancellation of hundreds of flights as t..

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - An anti-abortion group has released more secretly recorded videotapes of a man posing as a pimp seeking Planned Parenthood services in Virginia for underage se..

PHOENIX (AP) - State and federal prosecutors agreed that the suspect in the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others will be tried first in federal court before any prosec..

Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange have set up a Facebook page asking for donations to his legal defense fund.

NEW YORK (AP) - A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction of a doctor accused of offering to treat injured al-Qaida fighters. A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Co..

Five police officers were killed when a suicide bomber drove an explosive-laden vehicle into an emergency police patrol in central Ramadi.

Paul Merle Eischeid -- one of the U.S. Marshals Service\'s \"15 Most Wanted\" fugitives -- is no longer on the run.

Iran\'s supreme leader praised the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia Friday and said they echo his country\'s revolution more than three decades ago, state media reported.