So sorry! Very sorry! Very, very sorry! We apologize! This will never happen again! The prime minister, cabinet members and senior bureaucrats repeated this over and over again last week in an attempt to set right what seemed to them to ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of protesters pressed ahead with a mass rally in Bangkok on Tuesday, some expressing frustration that four days of peaceful protests had failed to force Thailand's premier to call elections.

Dozens of officials from the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration and other US agencies joined an investigation Monday into the killings of three people tied to the US Consulate in the Mexican city of Juarez, scrambling to ...

PARIS - Fresh with a first-place showing in round one of regional elections over President Nicolas Sarkozy's governing UMP party, France's Socialists now have a week of deal-making with rival leftist parties to try to secure dominance in the upcoming ...

By AP SUVA, Fiji (AP) -- Cyclone Tomas' onslaught on Fiji began to weaken Tuesday, but a state of emergency was declared in the hardest-hit areas as the storm battered the South Pacific nation's northern outer islands, knocking out power and forcing ...

MOSCOW, March 16 (RIA Novosti) - A Georgian opposition leader said the bogus news report of a Russian invasion, broadcasted on Saturday, was intended to intimidate the opposition and tarnish its image over attempts to repair ties with Moscow.

MUNICH - The priest at the center of a German sexual-abuse scandal that has embroiled Pope Benedict XVI continued working with children for more than 30 years, even though a German court convicted him of molesting boys.

Dozens of people have been arrested across Europe in a major crackdown on Eastern European mafias. At least 24 were detained in Spain and another 45 were arrested in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France and Italy.

SANTIAGO, March 15 (Reuters) - Chile's main power grid will remain "unstable" for the next seven days, President Sebastian Pinera said on Monday, a day after a massive outage left most the world's top copper producer in the dark.

SANTIAGO, March 15 (Reuters) - A magnitude 6.7 aftershock struck off the coast of Chile on Monday night about 45 miles (72 km) northwest of Concepcion, which was heavily damaged in an 8.8 magnitude quake on Feb. 27, but the national emergency office ...

WARRI—GOVERNORS, elders, leaders and stakeholders of the Niger-Delta, yesterday, angrily scolded the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta, MEND, for detonating two bombs some 200 metres away from the Government House Annex, Warri, ...

MOSCOW—Voters protesting rising utility bills and transportation costs gave opposition parties a boost in Russia's regional elections, weakening the ruling United Russia party's legislative majorities and electing a ...

Fallujah: An Iraqi soldier inspects the damage at the site of a car bomb attack Monday. Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- A parked car bomb detonated Monday on a busy street in central Iraq, killing at least seven people and injuring 13 others, police said.

BOGOTA, COLOMBIA -- With results from congressional elections trickling in Monday, Juan Manuel Santos, a former defense minister who marshaled US aid to thrash Marxist guerrillas, has consolidated his position as the front-runner to ...

SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen carried out air strikes against what they said were al Qaeda targets in the south for a second day on Monday, and authorities in the north recovered the remains of five people whose identities were being checked.

Egyptian blogs and websites like Twitter have been buzzing with rumors that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has died while undergoing a gall bladder operation in Germany on March 6th.

The world's shortest man, He Pingping, who was just 74.6cm (2ft 5in) tall, has died in Rome. He was born in 1988 in Wulanchabu, China, with a form of primordial dwarfism, and was officially recognised as the world's shortest man in 2008.

KABUL - The Afghan government was holding secret talks with the Taliban's No. 2 when he was captured in Pakistan, and the arrest infuriated President Hamid Karzai, according to one of Karzai's advisers.

North Korea has been sending workers to renovate soccer stadiums in South Africa and lumberjacks to Mongolia as part of efforts to earn foreign currency.

The brash Julius Malema, an ally of Jacob Zuma, is found guilty of hate speech. 'I'm known for shooting from the hip & ignoring political correctness,' he says, unapologetically, via Twitter.