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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez underwent surgery in Cuba on Tuesday for a recurring bout of cancer, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said.

Louise Thomas gives evidence ahead of judicial review into government's refusal to hold public inquiry into troop abuse claims A former investigator into allegations that British troops abused Iraqi prisoners resigned be...

CPR: Chest Compressions Can Preserve Brain Function

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Several Google Inc Web products, including the popular Gmail service, appeared to go dark for users on several continents on Monday.

Handcuffed theft suspect escapes from Texas squad car, climbs into driver's seat, drives away

A monkey who caused a stir in a Toronto Ikea store by wearing a sheepskin coat and a nappy has been sent to a primate sanctuary.

Massachusetts is launching a sweeping plan to hold down health care costs. A new law is partly designed to get patients to help drive down prices by shopping for medical care. But just try finding out how something like,...

An eminent U.S. authority on international law identifies some of those who have brought us war in our time, whose actions are responsible for the deaths and injuries to millions, in order to rob the Middle East of its n...

Thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets of the Egyptian capital Cairo for rival rallies as emotions run high ahead of a planned referendum.

The X-37B, the Air Force’s unmanned “mini-space shuttle,” has launched into orbit for a third time  and once again what it actually does in space remains a big mystery. One of the few things known a...

Martin O'Neill celebrates a year in charge at Sunderland with a win over Reading that lifts the Black Cats out of the relegation zone.

Vision loss likely related to diabetes increased by 20 percent over less than a decade in the U.S., according to a new study.

A union criticises the decision to award a £27,000 pay rise to a council chief executive.

A British woman is critically ill in a French hospital after a snowboarding accident.

From Ed Kilgore, on ways of dealing with the fiscal cliff: I'm skeptical of any strategy that depends on convincing conservatives they need to be more reasonable. True enough. And it's also true that any deal that doesn'...

Malian President Diouncounda Traore appoints a new prime minister, less than 24 hours after his predecessor was forced to resign by the military.

Pregnant women in danger of losing their babies need sympathy from doctors and more information, a new report says.

A newfound asteroid gave Earth a close shave early today, zipping between our planet and the moon just two days after astronomers first spotted it.

Ryan Giggs says Manchester United players were blameless for the incident that led to Rio Ferdinand being hurt in the derby.

Even as President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner struggle to find a way to avoid income tax increases in the New Year on almost all households, a separate set of tax increases which Obama signed into law as ...

ALBANY, New York (Reuters) - A New York state anti-terrorism law enacted in the wake of the September 11 attacks cannot be used to prosecute a street gang member convicted of shooting a 10-year-old girl and paralyzing a ...

Thousands march on Lansing, Michigan, to protest the final approval of right-to_work legislation on Tuesday. (Image: John Rummel / peoplesworld / Flickr)Michigan lawmakers gave final approval to historic anti-union legis...