Do you remember the six Greenpeace volunteers who made history last year when they were acquitted for defending the climate? They were accused of causing £30,000 of criminal damage to Kingsnorth coal-fired power station. Their defence of "lawful excuse" was

Israeli prime minister dismissed the U.S. demand for a settlement freeze as unreasonable, moving closer to a collision with the Obama administration, while mobs of Jewish settlers attacked Palestinian laborers and burned West Bank fields.

People trapped at home for weeks emerged in search of food at barren shops while corpses lay exposed in the Swat Valley's main city Sunday, as a Pakistani official suggested the army offensive against the Taliban in the region could

For weeks after North Korean guards seized Laura Ling and Euna Lee near the border with China and spirited the journalists to Pyongyang on criminal charges, their families waited quietly for news about them.

South Korea and Thailand criticized North Korea on Sunday, saying the country's nuclear test threatens world peace and stability and harms efforts to prevent atomic proliferation.

American forces in country now using social networking to counter Taliban online efforts.

A contestant of the Bulgarian verison of reality television show "Survivor" died of a heart attack while filming an episode of the show on an island beach, Philippines police said.

Suspected militants have abducted some 400 students, staff members and relatives driving away from a school in a troubled tribal region in northwest Pakistan, police said.

Egg-hurling protesters have made a mess of the Czech Republic's European election campaign.

The U.S. military says four American troops have died in two separate roadside bomb attacks in Afghanistan.

North Korea has transported its most advanced missile, believed to be capable of reaching Alaska, from its west coast near China, news reports said.

A massive search is underway for an Air France jet carrying 228 people — including two Americans — from Rio de Janeiro to Paris believed to have gone down off the northeast coast of Brazil a few hours after takeoff.