Algeria tried to free hostages
ALGIERS, Algeria — Algeria raided a remote Sahara gas plant today in an attempt to free dozens of foreign hostages held by militants with t...
LONDON — A 15-year-old Pakistani girl shot in the head by the Taliban for promoting girls’ education has been released from a Birmingham hospital to live with her family...
NEW DELHI — Five men accused of raping a university student for hours on a bus as it drove through India’s capital were charged with murder, rape and other crimes that c...
Gang rape shakes India
NEW DELHI — The gang-rape and killing of a New Delhi student has set off an impassioned debate about what India needs to do to prevent such a trage...
CANBERRA, Australia — Fiscal cliff? Recession? Not in Asia, where the first countries to see 2013 are enthusiastically welcoming the new year.
Increasingly democratic My...
MOSCOW — A passenger airliner careened off the runway at Russia's third-busiest airport and partly onto a highway while landing on Saturday, broke into pieces and caught...
PENDLETON, Ore. — The stretch of rural Oregon interstate where a tour bus crashed through a guardrail and plummeted 100 feet down a steep embankment is so notorious that...
It unanimously passes parliament
MOSCOW — The upper chamber of Russia’s parliament today unanimously voted in favor of a measure banning Americans from adopting Russian c...
MOSCOW — A prominent Russian opposition leader faces his third investigation in five months as authorities intensify pressure on the opposition.
The Investigative Commit...
U.S. personnel often targets
KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan policewoman shot and killed an American adviser outside the police headquarters in Kabul today, the latest in ...
