Americans go to the polls Tuesday to vote for members of the U.S. Congress as well as the president. All 435 members of the U.S. House of Representati...
Australia has introduced a tsunami warning system, which experts hope will become an integral link in a network stretching across the Indian and Pacif...
In the final days of the presidential campaign, Americans have been flooded with messages from John McCain and Barack Obama. One person who has mainta...
New York state and city officials say painful spending cuts are necessary to cope with a massive budget shortfall following the collapse of several ma...
A large segment of popular opinion, across the Middle East, appears to be supporting Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Barak Obama in Tuesday's c...
The Indonesian Supreme Court turned down a last-minute appeal filed by the families of the three men waiting to be executed for the 2002 terrorist bom...
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has named a former Nigerian president as his special envoy to help resolve the crisis in violence-wracked Eastern C...
The major party candidates for president of the United States are campaigning almost non-stop in the final hours before Election Day. VOA's Paula Wolf...
The U.S. military in Afghanistan says troops conducting several raids targeting al-Qaida, Taliban and Haqqani militant networks have killed 19 fighter...
The UN refugee agency reports thousands of Congolese refugees have fled to Uganda and Rwanda in the past few days seeking safety from escalating fight...
