LONDON - The failed Detroit plane bombing showed that terrorism remains a "very real" global threat as the world enters a new decade eight years after 9/11, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned...

TEHRAN, Laurent Maillard- Hundreds of thousands of government supporters took to Iran's streets on Wednesday in a show of force against the opposition, with a senior cleric telling their leaders to...

WASHINGTON, Lachlan Carmichael - The United States is sharply increasing military and economic aid to Yemen, as it has been doing in Afghanistan and Pakistan, to fight a growing threat from Al-Qaeda,...

BAGHDAD, Sammy Ketz - Al-Qaeda in Iraq is a far smaller force than at its peak three years ago but still poses a threat in the run-up to March elections, national security adviser Safa Hussein told...

RIYADH - Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas and Saudi King Abdullah discussed on Tuesday Middle East peace efforts and the need for greater international help to restart talks, the official SPA news...

HONOLULU, Stephen Collinson- President Barack Obama bluntly said Tuesday the thwarted Christmas Day airliner attack exploited a potentially "castastrophic" systemic failure in the US intelligence...

LONDON- Britain on Monday urged China to "do the right thing" in a last-ditch appeal to halt the execution of a Briton on death row for drug smuggling, as his family and supporters held a candlelit...

CAIRO, Mona Salem - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is due in Cairo on Tuesday as Washington is drafting documents to serve as a basis for resuming Israeli-Palestinian peace talks....

LONDON - A Nigerian charged with trying to blow up a US airliner was "a well mannered, quietly spoken, polite and able young man," when he was a student in London, a British university said Monday....