JERUSALEM - Israel has slammed the peace accord between rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah to form a new unity government in the West Bank and Gaza, saying that peace and Hamas "do not go...

Maldives - President Mohamed Nasheed, Maldives' first democratically elected head of state, resigned Tuesday after weeks of public protests over his order to arrest a senior judge Abdulla Mohamed,...

WASHINGTON - The US has partially waived off sanctions against Myanmar following a series of political reforms in the formerly military ruled South East Asian nation.

The waiver was signed by US...

MANILA - At least 48 people have been killed and scores are missing in the 6.8-magnitude earthquake that struck the heavily populated island provinces of Negros and Cebu in the central Philippines...

BEIRUT - At least 21 civilians and four soldiers were reported killed Tuesday in an escalated violence across Syria with government forces renewing their assault on Homs, while visiting Russian...

LONDON - Prime Minister David Cameron Tuesday unveiled plans to club apprenticeships with higher education to remove the poor class tag often attached to the vocational training programme.

"We...

London - Part-nationalised Lloyds Banking Group Tuesday announced plans to cut 900 jobs as part of wider plans unveiled last year to cull 15,000 posts across the company.

The banking group,...

TOKYO - Japan Airlines (JAL) said Tuesday that delivery of first Dreamliner aircraft originally expected by February end would be delayed as Boeing was removing a technical glitch in some of the...

ATHENS - Unions in Greece went on strike against austerity measures Tuesday as Prime Minister Lucas Papademos tried hard to persuade leaders of his coalition government to accept the tough bailout...

NEW YORK Mining giant Xstrata and Glencore, the world's biggest commodity trader, have announced a $90 billion all-share merger to create the world's fourth largest natural resources company....

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Former Democratic congresswoman Kathy Dahlkemper, a Catholic from Erie, Pennsylvania, cast a crucial vote in favor of Obamacare in 2010. She lost her seat that November in part because of her...

Everyone is familiar with the Chrysler spot that has Clint Eastwood walking ominously dark streets, talking about how America is down and hurting, but we've been here before and this is just...

A federal appeals court in California has ruled that the state's ban on same-gender marriages is unconstitutional. Voters in California approved the ban, known as Proposition 8, by a slim...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said he is "proud" of the country's new constitution and questioned the motives of those criticizing it. Critics of the new constitution --...

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin appears to have an unlikely supporter in his camp ahead of Russia's March 4 presidential election -- or does he? A video lauding Putin's leadership has gone...

Italian divers say they have "definitively stopped" their search for bodies underwater inside the capsized cruise ship "Costa Concordia," after conditions in the water became too...

Major European states and members of the Gulf Cooperation Council have announced they are withdrawing their ambassadors from Syria as the death toll continues to rise in violence between Syrian...

President Dmitry Medvedev (right) with Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin at the Gorki presidential residence outside Moscow on February...

Major European states and members of the Gulf Cooperation Council have announced they are withdrawing their ambassadors from Syria as the death toll continues to rise in violence between Syrian...

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has promised that, if elected to a third term as president in March, he will cut traffic privileges for officials. The privileges are a strong irritant for...

Chechens live in Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Turkey, Israel, and other middle east countries. 80% of vainakh people were deported to middle east by Russian government in...

"This is a scandal not only because it violates the [Palestinian] Basic Law, but also because it turns Abbas into an autocrat with absolute powers," senior Fatah official says of unity deal...

The general strike will not solve the issue of the contract workers, said Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday night."The conditions of contract workers can be improved without improved...

IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz has ordered unit commanders to begin preparing for a near shutdown of the military in two months due to a continued standoff with the Treasury over the defense...

Israeli hackers took down a website run by Hamas on Tuesday, and warned that the web company which hosted the site will be their next target.The...

Palestinian hunger striker or release him from administrative detention, Amnesty International said on Tuesday.Amnesty International said that in light of fears that Khader Adnan, 33, could die...

Syria will cooperate with any effort to resolve its crisis that promotes stability in the country, the state news agency SANA quoted President Bashar Assad as saying on...

The Civil Service Commision on Tuesday chose Homeland Defense Minister Matan Vilna'i (Independence) as its pick to become Israel's next ambassador to China.If approved by the cabinet as...

The Palestinian Authority wants Palestinians to write only nice things about their leaders. Criticism should be directed only against Israel. Those who fail to toe the line will find themselves...

Descending the Tower, the imposing new state-of-the-art inpatient hospital at Hadassah's Ein Kerem Medical Center, Joseph Mapa was impressed. The chief executive officer of Toronto's Mt....

Rock band Izabo will represent Israel in the 2012 Eurovision song competition set to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan in May, with their single 'Time', the Israel Broadcasting Authority...

It's been a busy few days for the Queen of Pop with a knockout performance at the Super Bowl Half Time Show and the release of a new single. But now she will be focusing her attention on...

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach has sent a letter declaring his intent to run for Congress in New Jersey's newly formed 9th District.Boteach sent the letter of intent to the offices of the Bergen County...

Warsaw - Dozens more people were killed on Tuesday across Europe, with the three-week death toll crossing 450 and the frosty spell expected to...

Florence, Italy - An Italian court ruled on Tuesday, February 07, 2012, that Francesco Schettino, the captain of the cruise liner that ran aground and capsized off the island of Giglio, killing at...

FILE - In this July 13, 2011, file photo, actress Roseanne Barr attends a special screening of 'Snow Flower and the Secret Fan' hosted by the Cinema Society at the Tribeca Grand Hotel in...

DUBAI - Gulf Arab countries announced on Tuesday they were recalling their ambassadors from Damascus and expelling Syrian envoys in response to worsening violence in...

MOSCOW - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered the top security agency on Tuesday to crack down on Islamist insurgents to prevent any attacks ahead of a March presidential election, which Prime...

Lifting a half-century veil of secrecy, Israel's Mossad spy agency is opening its archive this week to reveal the story behind the legendary 1960 capture of Nazi mastermind Adolf Eichmann. The...

He wrote about life in the modern city, with its lawyers and criminals, bankers and urchins, dreamers and clerks. He created characters still known to millions Ebeneezer Scrooge and Tiny...

As Culture Secretary it was perhaps fitting that Jeremy Hunt marked the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens’ birth by presenting his Cabinet colleagues with the author’s...

All white: This cyan areas on this aerial image shows the vast parts of Europe that have been blanketed in snow as the cold snap continues across the...

Customers are often badgered by store staff to buy the warranties, which can cost as much...

More than double the size of its British babysitter, the Russian Navy’s burly flagship looks like it could make quick work of the diminutive HMS Liverpool sent to protect the UK's...

A six-year-old boy was dumped 'shivering and crying' in the snow with no shoes by thieves who had stolen his father’s car while he sat in the passenger seat, a court...

The latest test version of Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 software is missing one crucial button - the Start button and menu, an iconic part of Microsoft's operating system since it was...

She told ITV’s Daybreak: 'We want bonuses to be taxed properly and, in the last year of the Labour government, we taxed bonuses of more...

Facebook bars children under the age of 13 from using the site, but it remains highly popular with children, some of whom access it through internet-enabled...