In Sri Lanka, the military says it has captured key areas held by Tamil Tiger rebels, in the north of the country. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New...
A son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi met senior Bush administration officials Tuesday in another sign of improved U.S.-Libyan relations. Saif al-Isl...
India's finance minister is calling for price cuts, as well as a drop in interest rates, to stimulate demand as growth slows in the nation of 1.2 bill...
The chief of the United Nations refugee agency is in Afghanistan to highlight the difficulty in resettling the millions of Afghans displaced by decade...
President-elect Barack Obama and his former Republican opponent Senator John McCain say they hope they can work together in the months ahead on a rang...
World markets were mostly lower, amid news that Japan is the latest nation to slip into recession and projections of continued negative economic growt...
Iraq's parliament has begun debate on a new military pact with the United States that was approved Sunday by the country's Cabinet. Among other things...
Elections for State government kicked off in Indian administered Kashmir on Monday amid calls for a boycott of the vote by Kashmiri Muslim separatists...
A unique program to capture carbon at coal power stations has been unveiled in Australia. Operators of a demonstration plant say it is the first of it...
The Iraqi government's council of ministers has voted to approve a three-year military pact with the United States, despite the bitter opposition of s...