Longtime Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams announced Sunday that he\'s leaving Northern Ireland politics to run for parliament in the Irish Republic, blasting what he called the current Irish government\'s \"deeply damaging\" economic policy.
A radical Islamist cleric in Lebanon facing a life sentence on charges of aiding an al Qaeda affilliate has been arrested following a shootout in the northern city of Tripoli, the country\'s state news agency reported Sunday.
The death toll from last month\'s eruption of Mount Merapi rose to 242 on Sunday, Indonesia\'s government reported, with most of the victims killed by severe burns.
Britain\'s Prince William attended a remembrance service Sunday in Afghanistan\'s Helmand Province to honor British and Commonwealth war dead, his press office said in a statement.
World leaders at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit on Sunday pledged to work toward a free trade area in Asia.
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - World leaders are welcoming Myanmar's release of democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi but are also calling it a reminder that the country's military governmen..
WASHINGTON (AP) - Members of Congress are expected to start laying the groundwork in the next several days for a deal with the White House on an extension of Bush-era tax cuts.Pres..
CHICAGO (AP) - Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is telling Chicago voters that taxpayers who are struggling to stay afloat can't be asked to give more.He officially l..
A motorcycle bomb detonated in a market in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing eight people, authorities said.
A 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck the Dominican Republic early Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
A U.S. drone strike in Pakistan\'s tribal region on Saturday killed four suspected militants, intelligence officials told CNN.
An Indonesian volcano has killed 240 people since it started erupting last month, officials said Saturday, a day after it spewed more hot ash and sent residents fleeing.
A Gaza-bound aid ship was in limbo Saturday after docking at a Greek port, with Greek authorities waiting for legal documents before letting any passengers and crew disembark.
The key topic of the APEC summit may be trade, but on the sidelines, host nation Japan is stressing the need for U.S. support in its strained relations with China.
The refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya -- the world\'s largest -- faces an overcrowding crisis with families in \"unacceptable living conditions\" outside the camp with the rain season coming, Medecins Sans Frontieres said.
Medical workers in Haiti on Friday called the upward trend in deaths and illnesses in the cholera outbreak \"alarming\" as the earthquake-devastated nation\'s already strained health system overflowed with the sick.
Medical workers in Haiti on Friday called the upward trend in deaths and illnesses in the cholera outbreak \"alarming\" as the earthquake-devastated nation\'s already strained health system overflowed with the sick.
ALVA, Fla. - Steven Demink, 41, of Redford, Michigan was indicted by a federal grand jury in Detroit on Wednesday on 13 counts related to the Sexual Exploitation of Children. This ..
HICKORY, N.C. (AP) - Investigators say they believe they have found the remains of a disabled 10-year-old girl who was reported missing in North Carolina about a month ago. Hickory..
Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden watched the bombing of Tora Bora, Afghanistan, where he was in hiding in 2001, says the man who was serving as Germany\'s foreign intelligence chief at the time.
