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The U.S. suspended operations of the Syrian embassy in Washington D.C., and its honorary consulates in Troy, Mich., and Houston, announcing that Syrian diplomats in the U.S. are no longer permitted to perform diplomatic ...

Suspect used sodium azide to kill herself in the Berkeley City Club, authorities said.

In Russia, Putin's brazen annexation of Crimea has made him more popular than ever.

Authorities have filed criminal charges against 14 teenagers who allegedly broke into a Southern California mansion and held a party that caused more than $1 million in damage and losses, including the theft of a stuffed...

PARIS (AP) -- A lawyer for a Rwandan former intelligence chief who was convicted in France's first genocide trial says he's filed an appeal for his client.     

Vietnam sentences blogger to 15 months in prison for posts critical of communist government

Demonstrators say the draft deal hands too much economic advantage to China

Pennsylvania authorities say a man wanted in a 1995 Massachusetts killing has agreed to be returned to the state. A Lehigh County district attorney's spokeswoman told the Patriot Ledger of Quincy that Joslyn Bailey, 48, ...

Russia's moves in Ukraine have revived the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's role as a counterweight to Moscow, even as it wrestles with its response.     

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- Ukraine's leadership simmered with a mix of hopelessness and anger at losing Crimea, tempering an influx of eager young men signing up as reservists with the growing certainty that no savior would d...

Human rights investigators expand their list of suspected war criminals from both sides of the conflict.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The U.N. peacekeeping chief says politically fueled ethnic violence in South Sudan since mid-December has led to the brutal killing and abuse of thousands of civilians and sparked a government camp...

The once-tiny mobile advertising sector is seeing huge growth, mainly thanks to the efforts of Google and Facebook. The two tech giants led a 105 percent gain in mobile ad spending in 2013, according to research firm eMa...

The Koch brothers take over of America will result in the serfdom of the citizens.

PETARE, Venezuela (AP) -- The two students venture into one of Latin America's biggest slums for the first time, feeling scared and somewhat awkward. Their mission: to broaden support for their anti-government protest mo...

When Hong Kong's billionaire Fong family opened the boutique Hotel Madera in 2012, its first hotel didn't seem destined for stand-out success. The structure was set back in the Jordan district, well away from the bustlin...

251 children, mostly boys from the U.S., were featured on the members only porn website, according to American officials

A 20-year-old California National Guardsman, who has been identified as Nicholas Teausant, was arrested for trying to cross the Canadian border to join al Qaeda and fight for "Allah's Army," NBC News reported. He also re...

President Obama moved to right old wrongs Tuesday by belatedly awarding the Medal of Honor to 24 Army veterans who served during World War II, Korea and Vietnam.     

TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) -- A Mexican immigrant rights advocate who gained international attention in 2007 when she was deported from the United States has presented herself to U.S. border inspectors and asked for asylum as ...

FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) -- A Massachusetts judge has refused to alter a gag order she imposed in the homicide case against former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez.     

Investigators say a gas line adjacent to one of the Harlem buildings destroyed in a deadly March 12 explosion has a leak