(9/8/2010) Three suspected U.S. missile strikes in less than 12 hours hit militant targets in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, officials said, an unusually intense barrage that follows four other such a...  

(9/8/2010) The hidden face of the Emirates' economic crunch is in places such as Industrial Zone 18 and the ramshackle compound for about 700 migrant workers within. For more than six months, they have liv...  

(9/8/2010) One of East Timor's deputy prime ministers resigned after Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao allegedly screamed at him during a public meeting and called him a liar — dealing another blow to the...  

(9/8/2010) Jeffrey Allen Weathers moved from Alaska to an oceanfront apartment in the Caribbean, but his new neighbors soon suspected the heavyset American hadn't come for the sun. The FBI now says they we...  

(9/8/2010) Peru's president says he doesn't consider Lori Berenson a threat to Peru and isn't ruling out commuting the New Yorker's accomplice-to-terrorism sentence so she can go home.  

(9/8/2010) The European Union's anti-piracy force says Somali pirates have hijacked a cargo ship carrying ballast in the Gulf of Aden.  

(9/8/2010) Israelis usher in the Jewish new year, or Rosh Hashana, at sundown Wednesday with a widespread sense of pessimism that a new round of U.S.-sponsored Mideast talks can achieve peace. ...  

(9/8/2010) Iran has backed down over plans to stone to death a woman charged with adultery after an international outcry.  

(9/8/2010) Belgian police say 10 people have been arrested in raids across Europe against hackers who put illegal copies of movies and television series on the Internet.  

(9/8/2010) Bahrain's government on Wednesday suspended the board of a prominent human rights group, accusing it of being too partial to the country's Shiite majority.  

(9/8/2010) The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan has spoken with the Afghan president today about the planned burning of copies of the Koran this weekend by a Florida church to mark the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.  

(9/8/2010) Pakistan will soon bring terrorism charges against three men alleged to have helped the failed Times Square bomber meet up with militant leaders close to the Afghan border and sent him money to ...  

(9/8/2010) Police say they will bring terrorism charges against 3 men held over failed Times Square bomb.  

(9/8/2010) A former Polish president who was in office when the CIA is suspected of running a secret prison in his country says he has no knowledge of the facility or of harsh interrogation techniques alle...  

(9/8/2010) Nigeria's president has appointed new leaders for the nation's military and security services.  

(9/8/2010) The United States wants the United Nations to appoint an independent expert on freedom of assembly.  

(9/8/2010) The senior Sinn Fein politician in Northern Ireland's government acknowledged Wednesday that he did meet a Catholic priest responsible for a 1972 triple car bombing that killed nine civilians bu...  

(9/8/2010) A leader at a German evangelical church founded by Terry Jones said Wednesday he has no doubt the Florida-based preacher will carry out plans to burn copies of the Koran on Sept. 11, though his former congregation is "shocked and surprised" at his stance.  

(9/8/2010) Russia's top investigative agency has launched a probe into the emergency landing of a passenger jet that rolled into a forest without hurting anyone, officials said Wednesday.  

(9/8/2010) Two newborn pandas are the latest additions to the Madrid Zoo.