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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.     

A new £1 coin, modelled on the old threepenny bit, is set to be introduced in 2017 to combat counterfeiting.

Officials in the US dismantle one of the largest online child pornography rings ever uncovered, the Department of Homeland Security says.

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

Judges sitting in the Court of Appeal will rule on a long-running a battle for an inquiry into the killing of 24 villagers in Malaya in 1948.

Russia tells the US that Western sanctions over the Crimea dispute are unacceptable and will have "consequences".

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.     

Officials from the NTSB are investigating witness reports that strange noises were heard coming from a TV news helicopter shortly before it crashed in Downtown Seattle Tuesday killing two people. (March 18)     

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...

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff offers her condolences to the family of a woman who died after being dragged by a police car along a Rio street.

Half of all meat samples tested by Leicester City Council contained the DNA of other animals, a report finds.

The dissident republican group which calls itself the IRA has said it was responsible for a mortar attack on a police Land Rover in west Belfast on Friday night.

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...

Pamela Anderson has been the object of desire for more than two decades now, but a recent change had the former 'Baywatch' star worried that would change. The actress, 46, worried her new short pixie haircut would affect...