Israel's attorney general has closed an inquiry into alleged improprieties in a real estate deal by former Prime Minister Ehud ...

Chinese health authorities have quarantined 107 visiting students and teachers from Britain at a hotel in Beijing after some ...

The IRS does a poor job overseeing the paid tax preparers used by more than half the nation's taxpayers, the agency's inspector ...

A former Boston subway operator who authorities say was texting during a crash that injured more than 60 people has pleaded not ...

The public's confidence in President Obama's ability to handle the economy is eroding amid concern about higher federal spending ...

Iran's supreme leader issued a tough warning Monday to the opposition to back down after a former president called for a referendum ...

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday touted prospects for strengthening U.S.-India relations and prepared to sign ...

Republican Congressman Mark Kirk is running for the U.S. Senate seat once held by President Obama.

President Obama pushed back hard against critics of his health care overhaul plan Monday, vowing to fight "the politics of the ...

A British fighter jet crashed inside NATO's largest base in southern Afghanistan on Monday in the second major crash there in ...

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has announced that the size of the U.S. Army is being increased by 22,000 to help meet deployment ...

Colleges are offering courses in programming iPhone applications, that allows students to create, test and distribute their ...

For all the attention generated by President Obama's candidacy, the share of eligible voters who actually cast ballots in November ...

Four more Americans were killed Monday when a roadside bomb exploded in eastern Afghanistan, NATO said, making July the deadliest ...

Britain announced plans Monday to vaccinate half the population against swine flu by year's end as Russian health officials warned the virus was now affecting all parts of Europe's largest country.

Peru's ex-president Alberto Fujimori was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison for corruption during his rule.

Health officials in Britain have issued conflicting advice on swine flu, telling people to avoid travel and even advising women to delay getting pregnant.

A British fighter jet has crashed at an airfield in Afghanistan, injuring two pilots.

An aviation official says a Yemeni investigation team has found that a Yemeni airplane that crashed off the Comoros Islands last month was in good condition.

Audio excerpts from a purported exchange between Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and a call girl have aired on the internet