WASHINGTON, Stephen Collinson - US President Barack Obama Wednesday aims to clear up "confusion" and answer the "big questions" on his embattled healthcare reform plan in a crucial address to...

NEW YORK - Joseph Kennedy, the nephew of the late Edward Kennedy, announced Monday he will not seek to fill his uncle's vacant Senate seat. The statement, two weeks after Kennedy's death, made it...

HAVANA, Carlos Batista - Cuban ex-president Fidel Castro on Monday slammed Dutch multinational Philips as a "traitor" for not delivering spare parts for medical equipment due to the US economic...

WASHINGTON- The United States is satisfied with the security of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said in an interview aired Monday, calling the arrangements in place...

BERLIN, September 7, 2009 (AFP) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel called on coalition forces stationed in Afghanistan to speed up their mission in the country to achieve real progress by 2014. "We...

PARIS, Claire Rosemberg - Celebrity Hollywood designer Christian Audigier is all over Paris this week, talk-of-the-town in the media, splashed on buses and looking out from giant billboards placed at...

JERUSALEM, Jean-Luc Renaudie - Israel on Sunday stuck to plans to boost settlement construction before considering a Washington-demanded lull, despite widespread criticism that the move risks...

BERLIN - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown pledged Sunday to support compensation claims made against Libya by victims of IRA bombings, after reports he declined to press Libya's leader on the...

KABUL - The international military in Afghanistan denied reports Sunday that an investigation into an air strike that killed scores in the north of the country had found it was ordered in breach of...