Police questioned two men in their 20s in connection with an apparent pipe bomb explosion in San Francisco's Bayview District early Friday morning, a police sergeant said.Officers responded to reports of either an explosion or ...

It is still not known how much information was stolen. But sources inside the bank confirm that servers in the institution's highly-restricted treasury unit were deeply penetrated with spy software last April. Invaders also had ...

Senior allies of the toppled South African president, Thabo Mbeki, today laid the ground for a breakaway party from the ruling African National Congress because they said its leaders have abandoned the movement's founding principles and put our national democracy

Russia began its final pull-out from the so-called buffer zone next to Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia this morning, in a move that is likely to lead to a permanent redrawing of the map of Europe

Maumoon Abdul Gayoom faces threat from human rights activist Mohammed Nasheed

Former child actor accused of handcuffing couple to boat's anchor and tossing them overboard

German farmer Karl Merk performing basic tasks with new limbs after undergoing pioneering surgery in July

Robert Zoellick says 44 million of the world's poorest people will be driven into malnutrition this year

Plea refused for helicopter to rescue wounded men from Afghan minefield, inquest hears

Former minister plans to form new party while accusing Zuma leadership of betraying democracy

Russian president proposes ban on use of force in Europe in bid to defuse mounting tensions

Murder trial of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers star opens in Los Angeles

Children publicly deny claims they asked court to declare their mother mentally incompetent

Political experts offer their opinions on whether the race for the US presidency is over

Violent crime in Latin America kills more people and wreaks more economic havoc than Aids, warns head of the Organization of American States

US spin doctors go to work on John McCain's disdainful terms for 'messianic' Obama

Michael White: It is crucial to Labour's myth-encrusted narrative that everything went wrong after Thatcher

Hasan Kamran, a fundamentalist member of Iran's parliament has been ostracized by fellow MPs

Nils Pratley: The extent to which banks take up £250bn of funding guarantees will be kept 'under review'

Simon Hoggart: While it looked as if the rescue package might work, Labour MPs were on a high