KABUL - Hundreds of angry demonstrators gathered outside the Bagram airbase in Afghanistan Tuesday to protest the alleged burning of the Koran, the Muslim holy book, by soldiers at the base. The US...

TEL AVIV - Top Israel officials have strongly objected and conveyed to the US that its statements over an attack on Iran had "served" Tehran's interests.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,...

NEW YORK - Wal-Mart Stores, the world's largest retailer, Tuesday reported a 15 per cent drop in fourth-quarter profit despite a turnaround in the US sales and continued strong performance at...

TOKYO - Japan Tuesday said it had come closer to the US on sanctions against Iran but denied any final agreement regarding the embargo even as a newspaper reported that Tokyo had proposed 11 per cent...

The United Arab Emirates has expressed its keenness to strengthen economic, trade and investment relations with the Latin America countries, especially Chile, in near future.

UAE's Abdullah Al...

Halle Berry's fiance Olivier Martinez will soon be unveiling a fine dining restaurant in Miami, Florida that will serve French and Italian cuisine.

The French actor and his friend Michael Martin...

A woman from Texas contributed 255,000 dollars to the William J. Clinton Foundation last year to spend a day with its Presidential leader Bill Clinton and provided charity-auction organizer...

The United States has assured India all possible assistance as provided within the framework of US law to help bring the main culprits of the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks to book.

The...

The White House has attributed the rising fuel prices in America partly to the economic boom in countries like India and China and unrest in other parts of the world.

"The rise in gas prices is...

An alleged Iranian hit squad used 27 dollar portable radios to hide at least five bombs that Israeli and American authorities said they intended to target Israelis in Bangkok.

A photograph of one...

Two Western journalists, one American and one French, have reportedly been killed in the bombardment of Syrian city of Homs.

According to Syrian activists, journalists died after a shell hit a...

Manchester United's debt has dipped below 500 million pounds for the first time since American businessmen, the Glazers took over the club.

At the end of the year 2011, United's debt stands at 439...

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney has said that President Barack Obama is focused on policy and helping the middle class, and not questions raised by Republican candidate Rick Santorum and...

Jeremy Lin has made it to the cover of the Sports Illustrated magazine for the second consecutive week, becoming the first New York athlete to do so.

The undrafted point guard with a Harvard diploma...

A former Playboy Playmate, who had sued the New York Police Department claiming they manhandled her following an altercation with a cab driver in 2006, has been awarded 1.2 million dollars by a civil...

Mick Jagger was visited by Barack Obama when the pop star was rehearsing for a White House concert celebrating blues music.

The Rolling Stones rocker tweeted Monday that the president "listened to a...

The US was pleased by the willingness expressed by Afghan President Hamid Karzai to talk directly to the Taliban, State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland has said.

"I think we have been...

Suggesting that rising powers like India, China and Brazil were putting economics at the centre of their foreign policies, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton advocates Economic Statecraft to champion...

The United States has said that the Balochistan issue should be peacefully resolved through a political process.

"We encourage all parties in Balochistan to work out their differences peacefully and...

Muslim holy books that were burnt at a US military base in Afghanistan contained extremist inscriptions, a western military official has said.

The military official said it appeared the Qurans and...

US State Secretary Hillary Clinton will Feb 23 start a tour of Britain, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco.

"On February 23, Clinton will begin a four-nation trip to London and North Africa," State...

In a bid to smooth key ally Pakistan's ruffled feathers over a lawmaker's call for self-determination in restive Balochistan, the United States has reiterated that it supports Pakistan's territorial...

The United States continues to talk with India to encourage it to reduce its dependence on Iranian crude, but would not say what progress it has made so far.

"We're talking to India, we're talking...

The United States actress and humanitarian advocate Mia Farrow has helped launch a United Nations-supported polio vaccination campaign in Chad, a country which holds the second highest number of...

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has apologized to the Afghan people, following reports that religious materials, including the Quran, might have been inappropriately dumped and burned by U.S. troops...

A crowd of at least 2,000 angry protesters gathered outside the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan Tuesday, following reports that foreign troops inside the facility had improperly disposed of...

White House officials are supporting a call by the International Committee of the Red Cross for daily ceasefires in Syria to allow food and medical aid to reach victims of the Syrian government's...

The Obama administration is trying to attract more foreign investors to boost the U.S. economy. Washington is encouraging U.S. firms to get out and compete for a larger share of the international...

The battle lines have been drawn in an unusual publicrecords spat between a state agency responsible for upholding election lawsand the U.S. Postal...

LONDON (AP) -- Respected American journalist Marie Colvin, who spent decades reporting on conflicts from Sri Lanka to Syria, focusing on the suffering of women and children in wartime, died in a...

President Barack Obama complained Tuesday that he doesn't get out much. Then he noted he doesn't have to when B.B. King and Mick Jagger come to play a concert at his house.The blues and...

The full blues special will air on P.B.S. on February 27. By then Mitt Romney will have downloaded this "Sweet Home Chicago" and programmed the names B.B. King, Mick Jagger, and Buddy Guy...

asked Rep. Paul about his remarks the next day: "Do you really think that the U.S. now has a fascist system? And point to me, you know, some examples of that." Rep. Paul said that the...

Operators' increasing investments in cable and fibre broadband infrastructure have widened the availability of and demand for broadband services in Latin America. According to...

NEW YORK » Large glass bottles of desiccated shark fins grace the upper shelves of nearly every convenience store and grocery in Manhattan's Chinatown, bearing price tags - from $100 to...

DECATUR, Ga. -; Authorities were searching Wednesday for two children who were reported kidnapped after a stranger offered to help the family when their car broke down on the side of an Atlanta-area...

Garry McCarthy was the Newark police chief in 2007, when the plainclothes NYPD officers fanned out across his city, taking pictures of mosques and eavesdropping on conversations in businesses...

LOS ANGELES -; A substitute teacher in the nation's second-largest school district was investigated three times for sexual misconduct with students before he quit in 2007 to work for a...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -; A western Arkansas man accused of killing a 16-year-old girl he met online and hiding her body in a blue, plastic barrel has been charged with first-degree...

TOLEDO, Ohio -; Police say a 5-year-old boy in Ohio brought an unloaded handgun to the day care he attends after finding it in the grass at his apartment...

The Rev. Patricia Anderson Cook of Mt. Healthy United Methodist Church in suburban Cincinnati plans to provide the service for people of all faiths and services beginning around 5...

CONCORD, N.H. -; Jury selection is starting in federal court in the case of a New Hampshire woman charged with lying about her role in the 1994 Rwanda...

NEW YORK -; A New York City jury has awarded a former Playboy playmate $1.2 million for injuries she suffered during a 2006 scuffle with police based on a taxi driver's false accusation that...

NORCROSS, Ga. -; Police were interviewing witnesses at a spa outside Atlanta where a gunman opened fire, killing five people in what authorities described as a...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -; A Virginia man charged following a yearlong FBI sting with plotting to blow up a bomb inside the U.S. Capitol in a suicide operation is expected to make a second court...

WASHINGTON -; A new national museum telling the history of black life, art, and culture will soon begin taking shape as the 19th museum in the Smithsonian Institution to explore stories that have...

February 22, 2012 Have you noticed that very few people in the mainstream media ever directly criticize the Federal Reserve? But why should that be the case? Criticizing top politicians from both...

February 22, 2012 What the Mossad and terrorist group MEK are doing together inside Iran is the same thing that the CIA and terrorist group Al-Qaeda are doing together inside Syria: blowing stuff up...

The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia filed federal conspiracy charges against the superintendent of the Upper Big Branch mine, saying he impeded federal inspections leading up...