CAIRO — Egyptian activists today used social networking sites to call for a fresh wave of demonstrations, a day after they staged the biggest protests in years in Egypt ...
CAIRO — Egypt is officially requesting the return of the 3,300-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti that has been in a Berlin museum for decades.
The bust, dating back to th...
MOSCOW — Following the suicide bombing at Russia’s largest airport, which killed 35 people, President Dmitry Medvedev called today for full security checks to be conduct...
MELBOURNE, Australia — A vast lake created by floodwaters will spread across southeastern Australia and threaten rural towns in its path for up to 10 more days, an offic...
More than 650 people are dead
TERESOPOLIS, Brazil — Brazil’s army on Monday sent 700 soldiers to help throw a lifeline to desperate neighborhoods that have been cut off f...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — From a posh hotel room, Haiti's former dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier greeted old friends and allies while providing no public insight ...
BRUSSELS — Eurozone finance ministers will lock horns today over how to fight their crippling debt crisis, which some fear could push Portugal to need a bailout and spre...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, a once feared and reviled dictator who was ousted in a popular uprising nearly 25 years ago, made a surprise ret...
TERESOPOLIS, Brazil — Efforts to fly rescue helicopters to hundreds of people stranded by massive mudslides were slowed by renewed rains in a region north of Rio de Jane...
TUNIS, Tunisia — Unrest engulfed Tunisia on Saturday after a popular rebellion forced the president to flee: Dozens of inmates were killed in two prison fires, looters e...
