Tens of thousands of people have attended a mass rally in Iraq to cheer the cessation of US troop movements in the country.

The celebration rally was organized by Iraq's Hezbollah movement to...

Police in Washington have closed down a large camping area containing members of the "Occupy" movement.

The encampment, one of the biggest protest areas in the United States, was only a few blocks...

A conspicuous show of support has been made for Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

Around 140,000 people attended a rally on Saturday in which placards were raised announcing Putin as a man...

Mexican police have arrested Jose Antonio Torres Marrufo, who is alleged to have masterminded drug exportation and murders.

Marrufo, the supposed head of a Sinaloa drug cartel, has been accused by...

Leaders of the Roman Catholic church in Rome are gathering to attend a conference on sexual abuse of minors within the Church.

They will attend a prayer service for victims of sexual abuse and...

Voting is underway in the western U.S. state of Nevada's Republican presidential caucuses, with members of the party choosing the candidate they want to see take on President Barack Obama in...

A private in the U.S. Army is to face a court martial after leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks.

Private First Class Bradley Manning, 24, has been in prison since his arrest one-and-a-half...

In the worst violence of the near year-long crackdown by government forces, Syrian security forces have launched a massive attack on the people of Homs.

Using heavy artillery, the Syrian forces...

CAIRO - An Egyptian government building was set on fire on Sunday as protests disrupted the heart of Cairo for a fourth day and public figures demanded a faster transition to civilian rule.It was...

twin babies on suspicion of abuse on Saturday night.The woman, who denies any wrong doing, failed a lie detector test last week, while she was under house...

Most of the wolf scenes in The Grey were shot using special effects, but Peta claims the film’s director Joe Carnahan ordered wolf carcasses from a trapper and that the animals would have...

Simmering diplomatic tensions between Britain and Argentina have not deterred the Government from planning a series of high-profile events to mark the 30th anniversary of the Falklands...

He was judged a security risk after his arrest by Scotland Yard counter-terrorism detectives in 2007, and the airline decided it was in the national interest to ensure he never flew...

But Professor Mark Tester and a group of Australian scientists have created a special formula which can be used on plants and flowers, making them glow in the...

The rift in the Liberal Democrats over the prosecution of former Energy Secretary Chris Huhne was laid bare last night as his ex-wife Vicky Pryce welcomed ‘Camp Vicky’ guests to a party...

The wife of bestselling author Nicholas Evans to is to receive a kidney from an anonymous donor, more than three years after a poisonous wild mushroom almost killed...

A Tory MP has ignited a row after claiming northerners die earlier than those in the south because they smoke too much, drink too much - and 'jump into bed with each other at the drop of a...

CAIRO, Egypt: Saboteurs on Sunday blew up a pipeline that supplies gas to Israel, the 12th such attack in a year, security officials said.Masked gunmen planted explosives under the pipeline in the...

Foreign Secretary William Hague joined international condemnation of their stance amid protests at Syrian embassies around the world that led to six arrests in London. Anger was fuelled by a...

1 of 2. Micron Technology Inc. COO Mark Durcan listens to a question during the Reuters Technology Summit in San Francisco, California May 17,...

1 of 4. A protester argues with a policeman as they try to prevent fellow protesters from throwing stones at riot police during clashes near the Interior Ministry in Cairo February 4,...

Greece on Saturday warned it had just one day left to clinch the bailout plan with political leaders and impatient lenders who accuse it of dragging its feet on promised...

(Reuters) - Micron Technology Inc Chief Executive and Chairman Steve Appleton died in a small plane crash on Friday, a major loss for a U.S. memory chipmaker already struggling with sluggish computer...

(CBS News) The one sector that lost jobs last month was the public sector. Federal, state and local governments shed 14,000 last month, and 280,000 jobs in 2011 as they tried to make up for massive...

Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers runs from New York Giants linebacker Jacquian Williams, right, during the first the first half of an NFL divisional playoffs, Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012, in...

(CBS News) The Grammy Awards are due to be handed out next Sunday, February 12. Among the nominees for best large jazz ensemble album is Arturo O'Farrill. As CBS News correspondent Michelle...

The parade was attended by presidents from the region, including Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega, Cuban President Raul Castro, Bolivian President Evo Morales and Haiti's Michel...

A small plane crashed and burst into flames shortly after takeoff Saturday in an eastern Arizona mountain community, killing a well-known rural Arizona auto dealer and his wife and seriously injuring...

LAS VEGAS - Mitt Romney handily won the Nevada caucuses on Saturday, solidifying his front-runner's status and giving him the all-important political fuel of momentum as he seeks to use the month of...

The Jerusalem Post has learned.The Defense Ministry initiated talks with Germany last year about buying a sixth submarine but Chancellor Angela Merkel's government initially balked when Israel...

The BBC's new documentary series, Putin, Russia & The West, was more than two years in the making – much of it spent trying to persuade senior Russian politicians to take...

CAIRO - An explosion hit a gas pipeline running from Egypt to Israel on Sunday, witnesses and state television reported.The pipeline, which also supplies gas to Jordan, has come under attack at least...

Russia and China's veto at the UN Security Council blocking a resolution condemning Syrian President Bashar Assad reaffirms Israel's belief that the UN cannot be relied on to prevent war...

Drivers beware. Dozens of traffic enforcement cameras situated at accident-prone roads and junctions are due to be switched on Sunday.Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch approved the final...

PARIS - French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Saturday France was consulting with Arab and European countries to create a contact group on Syria to find a solution to its crisis...

Two other Polish men left the house next door recently after squatting there for a fortnight. They were also thought to have been doing cash-in-hand building work in the...

Princess Michael of Kent has been told to drop plans for a three-day celebration to mark her husband’s 70th birthday after they were deemed too...

And some are simply impossible - such as the quarter of Britons who have claimed to have visited ancient Wonders of the World which have not existed for hundreds of...

Millions of workers at Britain’s recession-hit companies are being urged to stay at home during the Olympics after organisers warned of hour-long queues at Tube...

Now Steve Hilton has been targeted by a mystery internet prankster, who has set up a spoof Twitter account parodying his consciously trendy, California-influenced...

The pilot prince has been branded a 'pirate prince' by protestors - but William would have been concentrating on closer-to-hand issues as he prepared for his first...

Protesters gathered following reports that more than 200 people had been massacred in Syria when government forces shelled civilians in a rebel...

With her tousled blonde hair, bronzed limbs and radiant smile, Made In Chelsea star Francesca ‘Cheska’ Hull must have been exactly the sort of girl the producers had in mind when they...

Thousands of NHS patients could be secretly monitored by the Government for symptoms of the human form of mad cow disease amid concerns that there could be another wave of...

But Uggie, the irresistible Jack Russell star of the hit silent film The Artist, is suffering from a debilitating illness that has cut short his...

The Foreign Office experts raise fears that a fully-fledged international border would be necessary because Scotland could be required to join the ‘Schengen’ open-borders system used by...

Calls to scrap curbs on smacking have overwhelming public support – and parents believe such a move would help prevent a repeat of last summer’s...

The Post Office wrongly suspected some of its own staff of being involved in the Great Train Robbery – because they shared the same surname as ‘the bandit’ Ronnie Biggs or they had...

He also had to live in the wild with no tent as part of the tough SERE course – meaning Survive, Evade, Resist, Extract – ahead of his return to the front...