Official results show European Union budget chief Dalia Grybauskaite has won the presidential elections in her native Lithuania, with nearly 70 percen...
Facing record auto industry losses and with thousands of jobs on the line, Britain has launched a new car incentive program aimed at spurring sales. U...
The annual World Health Assembly has opened with delegates from 193 member countries discussing how to protect people from diseases such as the swine ...
Chad says it has completed a ground and air assault against rebels based in neighboring Sudan, but the Khartoum government calls the bombing raids an ...
The quarter-century civil war in Sri Lanka has come to a dramatic end. The army has apparently wiped out the entire leadership of the Liberation Tiger...
Israel is pressing ahead with plans to build more settlement housing in the West Bank. An Israeli official announced the scheme as a meeting was getti...
U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have agreed on the need to resume Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, and to de...
The Lacandon are direct descendants of the Maya peoples who live in the jungles of the Mexican state of Chiapas. Until the mid-20th century, they had ...
U.S. President Barack Obama's decisions to continue using military commissions to try terrorism detainees and to set a deadline for the closure of the...
In India, the ruling Congress Party got down to the job of choosing partners and forming a new government, a day after it beat forecasts to win a bett...
