LIBREVILLE, Fanny Pigeaud - Gabon goes to the polls Sunday to elect a successor to Africa's longest serving ruler Omar Bongo, whose son appears to be the frontrunner in the oil-rich country's...

QUITO - Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa announced Saturday he is seeking to definitively shut down a private television station that he accused of "espionage" on his office. The station...

WASHINGTON - Former US vice president Dick Cheney Friday slammed a Justice Department probe into alleged abusive interrogation techniques by CIA agents as an "outrageous political act." In an...

WASHINGTON - An award-winning correspondent with CBS Radio News was wounded on Friday in a roadside bomb blast in Afghanistan, the US network said. Cami McCormick, a New York-based reporter who...

PLACERVILLE, Rob Gloster - A Californian couple denied Friday kidnapping an 11-year-old girl and keeping her a sex slave for 18 years, as questions mounted over how their alleged crimes went...

WASHINGTON - The United States on Thursday appealed to China not to retaliate against the family of exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer after she said Beijing planned to demolish her family's home....

SAN FRANCISCO- A US woman who turned up 18 years after she was kidnapped as a young girl had been kept in a hidden backyard behind her captor's home and had two children with her abductor, police...

MAPUTO - Madagascar's power-brokers met Wednesday in the Mozambican capital to tackle the thorny question of who will lead a new transitional government meant to guide the island nation to...

MONTREAL - A Quebec cartoonist on Wednesday won a 14-year legal battle against children's entertainment production company Cinar and several broadcasters for plagiarizing his animated works....