Iran will strike back at any location from where attacks against it are mounted, Fars news agency quoted a senior military commander as saying Sunday.

"Any location which is used by the enemy for...

Tens of thousands of people have attended a mass rally in Iraq to cheer the cessation of US troop movements in the country.

The celebration rally was organized by Iraq's Hezbollah movement to...

Police in Washington have closed down a large camping area containing members of the "Occupy" movement.

The encampment, one of the biggest protest areas in the United States, was only a few blocks...

A conspicuous show of support has been made for Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

Around 140,000 people attended a rally on Saturday in which placards were raised announcing Putin as a man...

Mexican police have arrested Jose Antonio Torres Marrufo, who is alleged to have masterminded drug exportation and murders.

Marrufo, the supposed head of a Sinaloa drug cartel, has been accused by...

Leaders of the Roman Catholic church in Rome are gathering to attend a conference on sexual abuse of minors within the Church.

They will attend a prayer service for victims of sexual abuse and...

Former Massachusetts governor and the 2012 White House contender Mitt Romney secured his third victory of the GOP primary season, as television networks declared him the winner of Nevada's...

Five policemen and two civilians, including a child, died in a car bomb attack in Afghanistan's Kandahar city Sunday.

"A car bomb (attack) carried out by the enemies and hit Kandahar city at noon...

Voting is underway in the western U.S. state of Nevada's Republican presidential caucuses, with members of the party choosing the candidate they want to see take on President Barack Obama in...

Progress achieved during talks between PA President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal in Doha, Qatar; late-night meeting expected to agree upon prime...

International superstar Madonna may have been focusing on her Super Bowl halftime performance for Sunday night, but soon her sights will turn to the Middle East.The iconic singer will launch a world...

The Prime Minister's Office's chief of staff Natan Eshel has extended his leave from work by ten days, Army Radio reported Sunday. Eshel's leave, taken amid allegations that the he...

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told Likud ministers on Sunday that he does not believe that party activist Moshe Feiglin will impact their future or that of the party.According to preliminary...

Even if the historical sites will not remain under Israeli sovereignty after a permanent settlement with the Palestinians, young Israeli Jews should be exposed to...

One of my regrets, despite having lived in Israel for more than quarter of a century, is never having visited Hebron. I can still remember the lessons in heder about the Cave of the Patriarchs,...

I have often been reminded of Marx's famous dictum that history repeats itself, first as tragedy then as farce.In the academic world to which I belong the latest examples of "history as...

It is also claimed that Pranab Mukherjee and other Indian ministers tried to reject the money -...

Pam White, the sanctuary's owner, gave Balderson a tour Saturday because she wanted to show how her preserve differs from Terry Thompson's farm, where 56 exotic animals were released by Thompson in...

KIEV/LONDON (Reuters) - Bitterly cold weather sweeping across Europe claimed more victims Sunday, brought widespread disruption to transport services, and left thousands without power with warnings...

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak (L) is kissed on the forehead by his son Alaa in the courtroom during his trial at the police academy in Cairo, in this still image taken from video, August...

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis - commonly called Lou Gehrig's disease - is a rare but terrible disease. So what are the odds that one of our country's leading authorities on ALS would be...

(CBS News) After back-to-back wins in Florida and Nevada, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has regained some of the inevitability factor that has for months been connected with his...

Two star quarterbacks, a rematch of a nail-biter from four years ago featuring many of the same key characters, plus Madonna, this Super Bowl has all the makings of another thriller. A season that...

Queen Elizabeth II marked her Diamond Jubilee with a message thanking all those who had supported her over her 60-year reign and reaffirming her dedication to serving the British people. The...

A German reporter says he was beaten by guards during his nearly five months of imprisonment in Iran and that he heard constant, "horrible cries" of other inmates being tortured. In the first...

KABUL, Afghanistan - A car bomb exploded Sunday near the police headquarters of the southern city of Kandahar, killing seven people and wounding at least 19, provincial officials said. Five Afghan...

Hezbollah is prepared to attack should Western powers interfere in Syrian affairs, believes that a war in the Middle East could prevent the fall of the Assad regime, Lebanese official...

US authorities say 11 people have been arrested in Washington's McPherson Square since Park Police began clearing away tents from one of the last remaining Occupy sites in the U. S. David...

Bundled in a brown coat and matching fur hat, Her Majesty was joined by her husband, Prince Philip, at the service on her estate at Sandringham,...

A former model and television presenter who was left partially blind in one eye after an acid attack has had her sight restored following stem-cell...

The family thought Beauty had been found when a stray cat was reported the week after Mrs Hemming was sentenced, but it turned out to be a different missing...

The day a bearded Virginia Woolf and her band of 'jolly savages' duped an admiral into giving them the full red-carpet treatment on board the pride of the British naval fleet has gone...

In a statement on Chester Zoo's website, vet Steve Unwin said: 'We believe the fracture has been caused by a weakness in Juba’s leg, which has been aggravated by the rough and ...

KIEV: The Arctic cold snap that has hit Europe for over a week had claimed nearly 300 lives by Sunday, brought air travel chaos to London and dumped snow as far south as Rome and even North...

He looked less like a contender for the US Presidency, and more like a combination of Comical Ali, the Iraqi PR minister famed for declarations of impending victory in the jaws of catastrophic...

Scores, possibly hundreds, of people are estimated to have been killed in Syria when President Assad's forces shelled homes in the opposition stronghold of Homs. The attack came on the eve of...

CAIRO - The Egyptian authorities have referred 19 Americans and two dozen others to face criminal trials, the state media reported Sunday. The move is part of a politically charged investigation into...

(CBS News) The day after a government-directed assault allegedly left more than 200 people dead in Syria, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich called for the U.S. to supply covert weapons...

The death toll from the cold snap across Europe has risen to more than 260, with the winter misery set to hit thousands of those seeking to escape it as air traffic was hit. Airports were shut,...

The French interior minister has said he is standing by his remarks that not all civilisations are equal, even as critics denounced his comments as dangerous and xenophobic. "I do not regret...

Management consultant and business expert Peter Cohan does not plan on investing in Facebook stock any time soon. The author of 10 business books, including Capital Rising and Export Now, took a look...

One is a hapless inventor from Wigan whose hare-brained schemes and anthropomorphic dog, Gromit, have made him one of the most cherished figures in British film. The other is the leader of the...

The head of memory chip maker Micron, who was long known for taking risks in stunt piloting, died on Saturday when a small experimental plane he was piloting steeply banked, stalled and crashed near...

The number to watch is not the putative US$100 billion ($119.6 billion) valuation but the 845 million users that Facebook now claims to have. The observation that if Facebook were a country then it...

It has picked up award after award, including a Golden Globe last month for the best foreign language film and the Golden Bear at last year's Berlin film festival. And it has delighted ordinary...

The Taliban and other insurgent groups were responsible for nearly 80 per cent of civilian deaths in the war in Afghanistan last year, says a United Nations report released yesterday. The report said...

On the day that New Zealand is, or should be, most conscious of its national pride, it seems timely to suggest we should stop pleading for instant access to Australian social welfare. Every time the...

Last night's results in Nevada were bad news for Newt Gingrich and PPP's first day of polling in Colorado and Minnesota indicates things may only get worse for him in the coming days. In...

Arab countries and Muslim organizations are reacting angrily to a veto by Russia and China of a UN Security Council draft resolution based on an Arab League plan to end the violence in Syria. ...