Iran and six world powers have agreed to meet on April 13 for new talks about Tehran's nuclear programme, but the failure of previous meetings and disputes over what should be discussed are keeping th

A state-run Chinese website has launched a bitter attack on the Dalai Lama, accusing the exiled Buddhist leader of 'Nazi' racial policies and of inciting Tibetans to set themselves on fire.

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Dozens of French Muslims are training with the Taliban in northwestern Pakistan, raising fears of future attacks following the shooting deaths of seven people in southern France allegedly by a man who

A man described by police as emotionally disturbed is being evaluated after he tried to climb The New York Times' 52-story headquarters in Times Square, then said he wanted a copy of the newspaper.

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Spanish police arrested 22 suspected pimps who allegedly used violence to force women into prostitution and tattooed them with bar codes as a sign of ownership, officials said on Saturday.

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U.S. investigators believe the U.S. soldier accused of killing 17 Afghan civilians split the slaughter into two episodes, returning to his base after the first attack and later slipping away to kill a

Far from home if not away from election-year politics, President Barack Obama is returning to the threat to American security that he calls the gravest of all: Terrorists getting material for a nuclea

Kazakhstan has called the playing of a spoof of its national anthem at an international sporting event ‘a scandal’ and demanded an investigation of the incident.

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France's president Nicolas Sarkozy proposed a sweeping new law on Thursday that would jail those who visit extremist web sites -- one of several tough new measures floated in the wake of a murderous s

Pope Benedict XVI's arrival in Mexico on Friday will reveal his ability to communicate with a people whose passionate adoration of his predecessor threatens to overshadow the pontiff's message of peac