LONDON - Multi-millionaire Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling said Thursday she had quit as patron of a Scottish charity for multiple sclerosis because the organisation is being ripped apart by an...
WASHINGTON - Bad news for those fearful of "creeping socialism" in the United States -- only 53 percent of Americans now believe capitalism is the better system, according to a new poll Thursday....
LONDON, Robin Millard - British police moved to stop a "major terrorist plot" by arresting 12 mostly Pakistani suspects linked to Al-Qaeda across northwest England, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said...
Taqrir Washington, Kara Bentley- It’s not just the world view of the American government that has slipped in the past few years; it’s the view of American citizens and businesses too. Keith Reinhard...
PRAGUE, Jan Flemr and Jan Marchal- Barack and Michelle Obama received a rapturous welcome from tens of thousands of Czechs Sunday as the US president showed his pulling power at the only open-air...
PRAGUE, Stephen Collinson- US President Barack Obama pledged Sunday to lead a quest for a world purged of nuclear weapons, denouncing "fatalism" over proliferation and calling for North Korea to be...
President Barack Obama warned tongue-in-cheek Thursday that the global economy could no longer be simply remade by venerable political leaders sitting down thrashing things out over a brandy....
MADRID (AFP) - Two Spaniards who survived a Nazi concentration camp appeared as witnesses Monday in a suit filed against four men who allegedly worked as camp guards, judicial sources said.
Ramiro...
JAKARTA, Arlina Arshad - Ahead of Indonesia's April elections, female candidates are knocking on doors, making Facebook "friends" and even singing at circumcision ceremonies to break the male...
VATICAN CITY (AFP) - A papal commission on relations with Beijing is to meet next week to review the position of the Church in China, the Vatican said Saturday.
The commission, led by Vatican...