The Pentagon announced Tuesday it will change the composition and mission of some troop units being deployed to Iraq in the coming months to reduce th...
President Barack Obama says the U.S. unemployment rate is likely to continue rising for several months, even as the economy recovers from its worst re...
Environmental and regulatory concerns surround Ghana's plans to start producing offshore oil. Ghana's President John Atta Mills (file photo) With more...
The autonomous region of Somaliland is in danger of losing its democratic and human rights gains if its leadership does not soon mend its ways, accord...
On Sunday, the Republic of Congo held its second presidential election since the civil war that erupted in 1997, but voter turnout appeared low after ...
Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, is reportedly calm one day after African Union peacekeepers were seen fighting al-Shabab-led insurgents in the north of ...
A major South Korean broadcaster is reporting that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has a life-threatening form of cancer. His health has been in serio...
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore is in Australia launching a new environmental pressure group made up of scientists and civic and business leaders. ...
Turkey's controversial Ilisu dam project has been dealt a severe blow. An international consortium of German, Austrian and Swiss companies withdrew th...
For the first time since eight British soldiers died in Afghanistan last week, Britain's Defense Secretary Bob Ainsworth addressed parliament as he tr...