Ivory Coast's U.N.-endorsed presidential-election winner Alassane Ouattara has rejected calls by incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo for an internation...
A discovery of a mummified forest that's between two and 10 million years old is giving scientists a new window on climate change. Joel Barker, a rese...
President Barack Obama is ending the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy that bars homosexuals from serving openly in the U.S. armed forces. The president ha...
India and Russia have signed defense and civil nuclear deals worth billions of dollars during a visit by the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to New ...
The international community is increasing pressure on incumbent Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo to cede power after the U.N. Security Council vot...
The Iraq parliament has voted to approve the new government of Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki, although the key ministries of interior, defense and na...
Kenyan police are investigating possible links to terrorist groups after a bus station blast killed one and injured more than 40 people in Nairobi. A ...
With the referendum on southern independence just 19 days away, humanitarian organizations in Sudan are preparing for the possible results by moving t...
Belarus's presidential candidate Grigory Kostusyev says he was held by secret police and pressured to renounce his colleagues before being released. H...
British police say they have arrested 12 men suspected of plotting a terrorist attack in Britain. The men were taken from different areas around the c...