A 23-year-old Saudi columnist fled the country, his associates said, after his tweets on the human nature of the Prophet Muhammad led prominent clerics and

Opening a scientific frontier miles under the Antarctic ice, Russian experts drilled down and finally reached the surface of a gigantic freshwater lake, an

When neighbors in the hills east of Mexico City saw backhoes ripping up pre-Hispanic relics for a highway, they did something unexpected in a country where

The European Union will impose harsher sanctions on Syria, a senior EU official said Wednesday, as Russia tried to broker talks between the vice president and

Three Indian lawmakers resigned Wednesday after they were filmed allegedly watching porn on a cell phone during a heated debate at a state assembly in

Australian airline Qantas has taken one of its A380 super-jumbos out of service after cracks were found in its wings.

President Cristina Kirchner on Tuesday said Argentina would take its complaint about alleged UK militarization of the disputed Falkland Islands to the United

A passenger plane made a successful emergency landing Tuesday morning in Belfast.

Iran's foreign ministry has dismissed the new U.S. sanctions on Tehran, saying they are part of a "psychological war" meant to sow discontent among Iranians.

Washington has long seen Latin America as its "backyard," a region where American diplomats often interfered in local politics and even helped topple governments. But a raft of

It was so waterlogged in Bulgaria Monday that a dam broke and submerged an entire village under eight feet (2.5 meters) of freezing water. Switzerland recorded

President Barack Obama has signed an executive order blocking all Iranian government and central bank assets in the US.

The Obama administration closed the U.S. Embassy in Damascus on Monday and pulled all American diplomats out of violence-wracked Syria as the U.S. stepped up

Norwegian gunman Anders Behring Breivik on Monday asked an Oslo court to free him immediately, saying his killing spree last year in which 77 people died was

Protesters and police engaged in sporadic clashes on Sunday at security headquarters in Cairo as violence raged into a fourth day.