A massive effort by US and Nato forces including offensives in the insurgent heartland and targeted assassinations of rebel leaders has failed to dent...
United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon has appointed an independent panel to investigate the source of a cholera outbreak that has killed nearly 3,000...
The financial crisis engulfing Portugal showed no signs of abating as its borrowing costs surged again, even though it lowered its budget deficit to...
Efforts to expel Britain's ambassador from Ivory Coast have been dismissed as "invalid" by the Foreign Office.The UK representative has reportedly been ordered to...
Two psychiatrists have told a US federal judge that former Texas billionaire and financier R Allen Stanford is not mentally competent to stand trial...
Two packages have exploded in two government buildings in the state capital of Maryland, US officials said.Maryland state police said there were no serious...
US stocks slipped on Thursday after the government reported an increase in applications for unemployment benefits last week.The Labour Department said that 409,000 people...
A judge has dismissed the drug conspiracy convictions of the late Anna Nicole Smith's boyfriend-lawyer Howard Stern and her psychiatrist, allowing only one conviction...
