A gunman opened fire inside a busy shopping center near the Finnish capital of Helsinki on Thursday, leaving at least four people dead, local...

The office of a reformist Iranian member of parliament burned Tuesday night, and a reformist Web site said the act was the work of extremists. ...

Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab wouldn't have to go to an al Qaeda camp in Yemen to learn how to hate. He had examples closer to home. Christians and...

Mexico ended 2009 with a record number of drug-related deaths, greatly surpassing the then-record tally reached in 2008, unofficial counts indicate. ...

The New Year got under way with blasting horns and fireworks shot from the Sky Tower as revelers partied Friday morning in Auckland, New Zealand. ...

Pyrotechnics, parties and prayers greet 2010 as people around the world bid farewell to “the Noughties” and the recession-blighted old year. ...

A federal judge has dismissed all charges against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards charged in a deadly Baghdad shooting. Around 1 p.m.,...

As a prisoner at Guantanamo, Said Ali al-Shihri said he wanted freedom so he could go to Saudi Arabia and work at his family's furniture store....

U.S. military deaths in Afghanistan doubled in 2009 compared with a year ago as 30,000 additional troops begin pouring in for a stepped-up offensive....

The suicide bomber who killed seven CIA employees at an outpost in southeastern Afghanistan had been invited onto the base and was not searched, the...