Opening a scientific frontier miles under the Antarctic ice, Russian experts drilled down and finally reached the surface of a gigantic freshwater lake, an achievement the mission chief likened to placing a man on the moon.
Three Indian lawmakers resigned Wednesday after they were filmed allegedly watching porn on a cell phone during a heated debate at a state assembly in
Australian airline Qantas has taken one of its A380 super-jumbos out of service after cracks were found in its wings.
President Cristina Kirchner on Tuesday said Argentina would take its complaint about alleged UK militarization of the disputed Falkland Islands to the United
A passenger plane made a successful emergency landing Tuesday morning in Belfast.
Iran's foreign ministry has dismissed the new U.S. sanctions on Tehran, saying they are part of a "psychological war" meant to sow discontent among Iranians.
Washington has long seen Latin America as its "backyard," a region where American diplomats often interfered in local politics and even helped topple governments. But a raft of
It was so waterlogged in Bulgaria Monday that a dam broke and submerged an entire village under eight feet (2.5 meters) of freezing water. Switzerland recorded
President Barack Obama has signed an executive order blocking all Iranian government and central bank assets in the US.
The Obama administration closed the U.S. Embassy in Damascus on Monday and pulled all American diplomats out of violence-wracked Syria as the U.S. stepped up
Norwegian gunman Anders Behring Breivik on Monday asked an Oslo court to free him immediately, saying his killing spree last year in which 77 people died was
Protesters and police engaged in sporadic clashes on Sunday at security headquarters in Cairo as violence raged into a fourth day.
Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega was hospitalized Sunday for what officials said was "hypertension with a possibility of a stroke," a police statement
Cuban leader Fidel Castro presented two volumes of his memoir entitled "Time Guerrilla" in a ceremony that marked his first public appearance since last April,
Outrage mounted Sunday after Russia and China blocked the UN Security Council's resolution on Syria, in what Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described as a
North Korea's hard-line communist regime is using old US-made target drones to develop unmanned attack aircraft, South Korea intelligence sources said Sunday.
The UN Security Council's failure to deliver a resolution on Syria has given President Bashar al Assad's regime a "license to kill," the opposition Syrian
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