The American Embassy spokesman in Iraq says the United States and Iraq have signed an agreement to settle claims of Americans who say they were abused by Saddam Hussein's regime.

Far, far away from a Chilean mine where 33 trapped men struggle to cope as they await rescue, 50 Spanish miners are also deep in the earth's bowels — but by their own choice. ...

Police detained a foreign man and sealed off central parts of the Danish capital Friday after a minor explosion in a downtown Copenhagen hotel, a police spokesman said.

Congo's president has ordered a mining suspension in volatile eastern Congo.

Carlisle Castle is under siege. Not from rampaging Vikings, insurgent Scots or Parliamentary rebels, but from tall scraggly blades of grass.

U.S. film company Paramount says it is teaming up with officials to develop a branded theme park in the Murcia region on Spain's Mediterranean coast.

A humpback whale entangled in ropes near a remote Scottish island was feared dead on Friday, rescuers said.

A river of mud unleashed by heavy rains has flooded a tiny village on Italy's Amalfi Coast, and at least one person was reported missing.

Patients jammed rudimentary clinics and health workers in surgical masks sprayed anti-bacterial solution on muddy paths as the government struggled to contain a cholera epidemic that has killed ...

Myanmar's state media denounced on Friday people who advocate not voting in the upcoming elections as irresponsible and antidemocratic, even though critics say the military government is using t...

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday hotly rejected criticism of his country as authoritarian, calling it a young democracy, but indicated authorities won't ease up on opposition movement...

French prosecutors want to drop a highly charged case against two police officers in the electrocution deaths of two teens that sparked fiery nationwide riots in 2005, a judicial official said F...

French prosecutors want to drop a highly charged case against two police officers in the electrocution deaths of two teens that sparked fiery nationwide riots in 2005, a judicial official said F...

International news agencies alarmed by South African proposals that could see reporters jailed should not fear freedoms are under attack, the president said Friday, adding that South Africa has ...

A witness says a lightning strike has killed four people at a wedding in a village in Mauritania.

Far, far away from a Chilean mine where 33 trapped men struggle to cope as they await rescue, 50 Spanish miners are also deep in the earth's bowels — but by their own choice. ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- An Iranian news agency says Saturday's planned released of one of three Americans jailed for more than a year is a result of intervention by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

More than 230,000 Japanese citizens listed in government records as at least 100 years old can't be found and may have died long ago, according to a government survey released Friday. ...

Iran's president intervened to secure the release of Sarah Shourd, one of three Americans jailed for more than 13 months, in part because of her gender, a news agency reported Friday. ...

At the center of Yoko Ono's new installation is a perfectly round bullet hole shot through a large pane of glass that John Lennon's widow says challenges viewers to confront "incredible violence...