A suspicious piece of luggage that was about to be loaded onto a flight in Namibia was a \"test device\" from a U.S. company that tests alarm and security systems, Germany\'s Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said in a news conference Friday in Hamburg, Germany.

LISBON, Portugal (AP) - President Barack Obama announced Friday that NATO has agreed to his plans for a new, expanded missile defense system for Europe that would cover all NATO me..

LISBON, Portugal (AP) - Back on the world stage for crucial talks, President Barack Obama on Friday quickly encountered European leaders willing to question a president weakened at..

WASHINGTON (AP) - The maker of the painkiller Darvon is pulling the drug off the market under pressure from public health officials who say it causes potentially deadly heart rhyth..

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - A mining company in New Zealand confirms it was a gas explosion that rocked one of its coal mines overnight, leaving 27 workers missing. Five others ..

     WASHINGTON (AP) - The government says tougher safeguards fortoys mean better choices for families this holiday season.      But it..

    TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Officials say Florida's high schoolgraduation rate rose to 79 percent this year.      The Florida Department of..

Costa Rica has taken its border dispute with Nicaragua to international court, repeating claims that its territory has been invaded.

A key United Nations committee has approved a draft resolution expressing \"deep concern at serious human rights violations in Iran,\" including torture, persecution of ethnic minorities and violence against women.

Twenty-five to 30 people were unaccounted for after an underground explosion rocked a coal mine on New Zealand\'s west coast on Friday, a CNN affiliate said.

After three days of violence throughout the country that killed at least nine people, injured dozens more and pushed the ruling military junta to declare a national state of emergency, calm returned to Guinea on Thursday.

CNN\'s Fred Pleitgen just spent 16 days in Myanmar following events there, although the regime did not allow CNN to report officially. CNN has now released his interview with pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi.

A U.S. Navy destroyer helped two Iranian civilian sailors found Thursday floating in a life raft in the Persian Gulf.

Like cholera itself, Haiti\'s protests against the United Nations spread to the capital, Port-au-Prince, as angry people took to the streets on Thursday, demanding the global body get out of their country.

Saudi Prince Khalid al Faisal acknowledged Thursday that Saudi Arabia alerted U.S. and European authorities to the presence of parcel bombs that were en route from Yemen.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The House ethics committee is recommending that 20-term Rep. Charles Rangel of New York be censured and pay any unpaid taxes for financial and fundraising miscond..

MOUNT VERNON, Ohio (AP) - Three people who vanished from a blood-spattered home more than a week ago were found dead inside a hollow tree Thursday, days after the teenage daughter ..

The cholera epidemic already blamed for more than 1,100 deaths in Haiti could worsen because of poor sanitation in the earthquake-ravaged country, U.S. medical researchers reported Thursday.

President Barack Obama urged the lame duck Senate to quickly ratify the new arms control treaty with Russia, arguing that United States cannot \"afford to gamble\" on the need to effectively monitor that country\'s nuclear stockpile.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans in the House have blocked a bill that would have extended jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed beyond the holiday season.The most recent exte..