World News
Updated: 19 min 27 sec ago
20 min 44 sec ago
The leaders of Australia and Indonesia have agreed to formally cooperate on issues such as terrorism, climate change and people-smuggling in the region.
27 min 26 sec ago
Silvano Vinceti probes history's coldest cases. But he's no expert, he's a TV host.
55 min 18 sec ago
Myanmar's ruling junta began to release information about a new law that will govern the country's first elections in two decades.
1 hour 4 min ago
Debt-laden Ireland is winning applause for adopting severe measures that Greece has put off, but pay cuts and tax hikes have put public servants in some unusual binds.
1 hour 9 min ago
The InterAcademy Council, an organization representing scientists from around the world, will head up a review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change following a string of criticism over the panel's scientific reports.
1 hour 14 min ago
The EU is considering a ban on speculative derivative trades, including credit default swaps, which have been blamed for worsening the crisis in Greece.
1 hour 21 min ago
The U.S. vice president criticized the surprise publication of a new Israeli plan to build in east Jerusalem, which could endanger the renewal of peace talks after a year hiatus.
1 hour 29 min ago
Hundreds of thousands of residents of Port-au-Prince's tent cities remain to be relocated before hard rains begin next month.
1 hour 54 min ago
Egyptian officials have laid out an ambitious set of economic targets for the Arab world's most populous country.
1 hour 58 min ago
Israel's top Iran expert advocates fomenting revolution in Tehran, as Israel's political and military establishment appears to tilt away from support for a military strike.
1 hour 59 min ago
Afghan battle scenes with Hollywood-style special effects are staged by a company in San Diego to help U.S. soldiers prepare for deployments.
2 hours 31 min ago
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates told a hard-hit battle unit that its heavy losses have helped the U.S. begin to push back against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan.
4 hours 6 min ago
Topping the Spanish league will count for nothing if his Real Madrid side doesn't win the European Cup.
5 hours 5 min ago
Airlines, airports and aviation regulators in the U.S. and Europe have found inexpensive ways to cut fuel consumption, carbon emissions and flight times by cooperating more effectively on air-traffic management.
5 hours 16 min ago
An author of a bold editorial calling for reform of China's divisive household registration system has been forced from his position, underlining the tightening limits on expression.
5 hours 25 min ago
India's top micro-finance institutions will join credit bureaus to ensure the world's poorest borrowers don't get overburdened with too many microloans.
5 hours 28 min ago
The Obama Administration's top trade negotiator, Ron Kirk, said the U.S. is working quickly to resolve a damaging trade spat with Mexico.
5 hours 36 min ago
The Thai government approved the use of a stringent security law and ordered strict surveillance of antigovernment Web sites ahead of a major protest this weekend.
5 hours 53 min ago
India's upper house of Parliament passed a bill that would reserve one third of the national and state legislatures for women.
6 hours 5 min ago
Sexual-abuse scandals in Germany, the pope's homeland, and other countries are cause for anguish but the Roman Catholic Church's response has been prompt and transparent, the Vatican said.