BEIJING: Chinese state news agency was left red-faced after it referred to PresidentXi Jinping as "China's last leader", an apparent copy editing error which forced the rest of the official media to...
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said his country would soon conduct a nuclear warhead test and test launch ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads, the official KCNA news agency...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A mentally ill homeless woman who picked up a police baton as officers scuffled with and fatally shot a man on Skid Row last year has reached a deal with prosecutors that will keep...
A passenger train derailed overnight in a rural area of southwestern Kansas, injuring at least 32 people, The Associated Press reports. Officials said Monday the Amtrak train was traveling from Los...
Tuesday, 15 March is well known as the Ides of March from Shakespeare’sJulius Caesar. But 14 March, for those who don’t already know it, goes by a number of different names as well – Pi Day (3.14),...
SAO PAULO (AP) Mammoth demonstrations across Brazil are putting even more pressure on embattled President DilmaRousseff as she heads into a tough week for her attempt to survive impeachment...
US PresidentBarack Obama , who visits Cuba in a week, promised dissidents he would directly discuss human rights issues with their president, Raul Castro , in a letter published Sunday. ......
BERLIN: Voters punished ChancellorAngela Merkel's conservatives in three German regional elections on Sunday, giving a thumbs-down to her open-door refugee policy and turning in droves to the...
The recent crash involving a Google self-driving car and a bus was "not a surprise", the US transport secretary has said. Anthony Foxx told the BBC that accidents were inevitable, but that the...
Millions of low-paid workers who put aside savings could receive a top-up of up to £1,200 over four years, the government has announced. Employees on in-work benefits, such as tax credits, who put...
A car bomb went off near bus stops in the heart of Turkey's capital on Sunday, killing at least 34 people and wounding around 125 others, officials said. The blast occurred on the city's main...
By Girish Gupta and AndrewCawthorne CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's opposition launched a new protest campaign on Saturday to oust PresidentNicolas Maduro, but support was thin and the ruling...
Troops loyal to Yemen's president have captured the western entrance to the strategic city of Taiz, partially breaking a siege by Houthi fighters allied with Iran, medical and military sources said on...
Tunisia's leaders have called for civil servants and the general public to donate part of their income to an "anti-terrorism fund", following a deadly assault on a town near the Libyan border....
It’s a tough pill to swallow for many survivors and families of victims that Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in gun and bomb attacks in 2011, gets another day in court, this time claiming...
Katherine Gypson Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump resumed his campaign in Ohio Saturday after thousands of protesters clashed with his supporters Friday night, forcing the cancellation...
The Greek government on Saturday started handing out flyers printed in Arabic, Farsi and Pashto to migrants and refugees camped out on the country’s northern border with the Former Yugoslav...
By Paul Carrel BERLIN (Reuters) - With a passionate defense of her migrant policy, ChancellorAngela Merkel threw herself into one last campaign push on the eve of "Super Sunday" elections...