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WASHINGTON — House Republicans are set to begin a special investigation of the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, raising the stakes in a poli...

DONETSK, Ukraine — The pro-Russia insurgency in eastern Ukraine decided today to go ahead with Sunday’s referendum on autonomy despite a call from Russian President Vlad...

SAN FRANCISCO — Alibaba Group, the king of e-commerce in China, is dangling a deal that could turn into one of the biggest IPOs in history. In a long-awaited move Tuesda...

Numbers revealed at U.N. hearing GENEVA — The Vatican revealed Tuesday that over the past decade, it has defrocked 848 priests who raped or molested children and sanction...

DONETSK, Ukraine — Thirty pro-Russia insurgents and four government troops have been killed during operations to expunge anti-government forces around a key eastern city...

Students huddled on doomed ferry SEOUL, South Korea — Soon after the ferry begins to tilt, nervous laughter can be heard from the high school students huddled below deck....

BAGHDAD — Iraqis braved the threat of bombs and attacks to vote today in key elections for a new parliament. Hundreds of thousands of troops and police fanned out to gu...

But it rejects World Bank report BEIJING — China has rejected a World Bank report that suggests it might pass the United States this year to become the biggest economy me...

They sign pact with Slovakia Ukraine and Slovakia signed a natural gas transport deal Monday in what European officials hailed as the first step toward reducing Ukraine’s...

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea conducted live-fire artillery drills near its disputed western sea boundary today, South Korean military officials said, in a possible i...