The people of Sweden are coming to terms with the first suicide bombing on their soil, an attack which stunned the nation and in the words of the country\'s foreign minister could have been \"catastrophic.\"

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is accused of sex crimes in Sweden, was granted bail Tuesday after a hearing at a London court. But the filing of an appeal is keeping him in jail. HE\'S FIGHTING CASE |

Yahoo cut about 600 jobs Tuesday, the company confirmed, finally swinging the ax on layoffs that had been widely rumored for weeks.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is scheduled to face a confidence vote in Parliament on Tuesday, the latest in a series of votes on his leadership since a dispute with a former ally over the summer.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Yahoo is reducing its work force by 4 percent and as it hands out 600 layoff notices for the holidays. The job cuts announced Tuesday follow weeks of speculati..

LONDON (AP) - A British judge ordered Julian Assange released on 200,000 pounds ($316,000) bail Tuesday, but the WikiLeaks founder will remain in custody for at least two more days..

Crude oil prices settled lower on Tuesday after the Federal Reserve said the economy is recovering, but not fast enough to bring down unemployment. Benchmark oil lost 33 cents to s..

WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House says a yearlong review of the Afghanistan war will show that the U.S. can begin withdrawing troops in July. President Barack Obama and his top nat..

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) - The Army says a suicide bomb attack that killed six American soldiers in Afghanistan used enough explosives to bring down the building the soldiers were i..

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Federal Reserve says it will maintain the pace of its $600 billion Treasury bond-buying program because a slowly improving economy with high unemployment stil..

At least eight people were killed and more than 100 others injured -- most of them critically -- in a fire at a garment factory in Bangladesh Tuesday, the country\'s national news agency reported.

Charges of bribery against former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and Halliburton by Nigeria\'s anti-corruption police may be dropped after an agreement to pay a $250 million fine.

An international medical group has cleared a South Korean biopharmaceutical company in the deaths of two patients following stem cell procedures in other countries.

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - The father of three boys missing since Thanksgiving has ended his fight against returning to Michigan from Ohio to face parental kidnapping charges. John Skelto..

LONDON (AP) - A British judge has granted bail to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The judge at a London court said Tuesday that Assange must abide by strict bail conditions as he..

The European Union plans to take \"targeted measures\" against people \"who refuse to accept recent election results\" in the Ivory Coast, an EU spokesman said Monday.

Richard C. Holbrooke, the high-octane diplomat who spearheaded the end of the Bosnian war and was the U.S. point man in the volatile Afghan-Pakistani war zone, has died. FULL STORY | PHOTOS | \'FORCE OF NATURE\' | REACTION

A violent storm over the weekend lashed a Royal Caribbean ship trying to get to port in Alexandria, Egypt, injuring nearly 30 passengers, shattering glass and overturning furniture.

A South Korean fishing vessel sank Monday in frigid ocean waters about 1,000 nautical miles north of McMurdo Station in Antarctica, killing at least 5 people while at least 20 were rescued, according to maritime officials.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A spam attack on Twitter shows why it's wise to use different passwords for Internet accounts. Twitter said Monday that hackers broke into an unspecifi..