Politician pushes 'Ten Commandments of Urban Conduct' such as no whistling at women or throwing gum on the ground.

Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi has an unusual proposal to mend some of Iraq's sectarian wounds: He offers mixed couples ...

When President Obama demanded this month that Afghan President Hamid Karzai tackle government corruption, no one welcomed the ...

The defense chiefs of North Korea and China reaffirmed pledges to strengthen their nations' 60-year-old alliance, North Korean ...

Bermuda's highest court struck down the conviction of a Florida woman who accidentally brought the ammunition magazine from her ...

Leaked British government documents call into question ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair's public statements on the buildup to the ...

Two exit polls indicate that Romania's president has received more votes than any other candidate in the country's presidential ...

Police and army experts say they're urgently checking the safety of about 1,800 bridges in northern England amid some of the ...

Iran on Sunday began large-scale air defense war games aimed at protecting its nuclear facilities from attack, state TV reported, ...

Rescuers saved more than 240 people aboard a crowded Indonesian passenger ferry that sank Sunday in rough waters off Sumatra ...

When gas levels suddenly spiked deep in the Xinxing coal mine, Wang Jiguo grabbed two co-workers and they ran for their lives. ...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is inviting his mentor Fidel Castro to visit Venezuela during the coming months.

A rocket hit outside the luxury Serena Hotel in Afghanistan's capital late Saturday, wounding at least two, the Interior Ministry ...

Prosecutors on Saturday were expected to request life in prison for an American student and her former boyfriend accused of killing ...

Pope Benedict XVI is meeting with artists, actors and musicians in the splendor of the Sistine Chapel to renew the Catholic church's ...