Britney Spears has been "drugged" by her self-styled manager in a bid to take control of her home, life and finances, the troubled pop star's mother charged in court documents made public on Tuesday. Lynne Spears, in a sworn declaration
The United States is hoping to bolster the safety of food and other products imported from China by opening a new Food and Drug Administration office in the Asian nation. "We will be able to continue to expand our own
A senior member of Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party has announced plans to challenge President Robert Mugabe in next month's presidential election. Outspoken former Finance Minister Simba Makoni said he decided to run as an independent following consultations with party members
An Israeli air strike targeting a police station in the Gaza Strip has killed at least six people and wounded several others. Hospital officials said all of those killed were members of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, which controls Gaza.
US voters are casting ballots in primaries in 24 states to select the Republican and Democrat candidates who will contest the presidential election in November. Opinion polls predict a close race between Illinois Senator Barack Obama and former First Lady
The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe has rejected an offer of concessions from Russia, which is trying to avert a boycott of the March 2 presidential vote. OSCE observers had threatened to stay away from the election due
German and Polish officials have opened unprecendented talks in Warsaw to discuss a dispute that has strained bilateral relations for years. Germany's minister of state for culture, Bernd Neumann, outlined plans to document the fate of 12 million Germans and
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has warned he will order French troops stationed in Chad to intervene if necessary to prevent any more fighting between government forces and rebels. This comes after the United Nations Security Council issued a non-binding resolution
Serbia's coalition is heading for a showdown over an EU accord that would put the country on the road to membership. Serbia's Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica has accused the EU of using the accord to deceive Serbia into rubber-stamping an
In financial news: Fresh worries about a possible looming recession in the United States have sent share prices tumbling on Europe's major stock markets. Frankfurt's DAX ended trading down by 3.5 percent. In London, the FTSE 100 was off by
A court in Sarajevo has sentenced two Bosnian Serbs to 12 years in prison for war crimes committed in east Bosnia at the beginning of the country's three-year-long civil war. The sentence was handed down after the court found that
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton ran neck-and-neck on Super Tuesday as John McCain vied to seal the Republican race in the biggest coast-to-coast White House nominating clash in history.
GAZA CITY (AFP) - The Israeli military pounded Hamas in its Gaza Strip bastion on Tuesday killing nine militants as the Islamist movement took responsibility for a deadly suicide bombing inside Israel.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - CIA director Michael Hayden for the first time admitted publicly Tuesday that the agency had used "waterboarding," or simulated drowning, in interrogations of three top Al-Qaeda detainees nearly five years ago.
PARIS (AFP) - The dealer blamed for a seven-billion dollar rogue trader loss at French bank Societe Generale told AFP Tuesday he had got "a bit carried away," but refused to be made a scapegoat for the whole scandal.
LA ROCHELLE, France (AFP) - French engineering giant Alstom unveiled a new super-fast train on Tuesday which it claims will be quicker, cleaner and bigger than its Japanese and German rivals.
The death of CBS 2's Randy Salerno in a snowmobiling accident has sparked a debate about the risks involved in the sport. We asked you for your comments on the sport of snowmobiling, the risks involved and whether more should
A well-organised militia is behind the violence in which more than 20 people have been killed along the Borabu-Bureti border, Nyanza police chief has said.
CANADIAN Prime Minister Stephen Harper told French President Nicolas Sarkozy today that Canada will withdraw its troops from Afghanistan unless NATO sends reinforcements, his spokeswoman said.
