MONTREAL - A Canadian woman freed last week after being kidnapped in Nigeria described her abductors Sunday as "mostly kind at heart," and said she was well-treated during nearly two weeks of...

TIRANA- An unidentified gunman shot dead an Albanian opposition deputy Saturday, less than two months before parliamentary elections will be held in the Balkan country, a police spokesman told AFP....

WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama will host a summit with his Afghan and Pakistani counterparts on Wednesday, the White House said, amid growing US concern over the deteriorating situation in...

BERLIN, Simon Sturdee - Global Labour Day rallies attended by hundreds of thousands of people angered or worried by recession turned ugly in a host of affected countries Friday. The worst violence...

PEORIA - Al-Qaeda sleeper agent Ali al-Marri, who was held by the United States without trial for more than five years as an "enemy combatant," pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiring to provide...

WASHINGTON- US President Barack Obama on Wednesday pledged an "unrelenting, unyielding effort" to return to economic prosperity and confront threats including a swine flu outbreak, terror attacks and...

LONDON - President Barack Obama has made a promising start in improving the United States' human rights record in his first 100 days in office, but he must now deliver on his promises, Amnesty...

Geneva- In response to cases of swine influenza A/H1N1, reported in Mexico and the United States of America, the Director-General convened a meeting of the Emergency Committee to assess the situation...

WARSAW- Workers demolishing the wall of a building that once belonged to the former Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp have found a message in a bottle written by prisoners 65 years ago,...