Indonesian police have confirmed the deaths of three terrorists in raids outside the capital,...

In Myanmar, a new law may force the National League for Democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, out of the...

Bangladesh has been accused of starving and blocking medical treatment for Rohingya...

US Vice President Joe Biden has told the Israeli prime minister that the US condemns an Israeli plan to build hundreds of homes in disputed east...

The US State Department has apologised over comments made by a State Department official about Libyan leader Muammar...

China has been given direct access to the Sea of Japan for the first time since the 19th century, thanks to a lease deal with North...

The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) has declared the 82 stelae of the Temple of Literature in Vietnam as a World Heritage Site, Prensa Latina...

Disgraced sprinter Marion Jones signed a free-agent contract Wednesday to play basketball in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) with the Tulsa...

The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) will set up a committee to help restore the Haitian cultural heritage damaged in a devastating earthquake in the Caribbean...

The Jordanian government Wednesday confirmed that it had received an official request from the NATO alliance to train the Afghan...

Pakistan's new coach Waqar Younis was Wednesday shocked over the cricket board's decision to ban and fine several leading national...

Hundreds of Tibetans, including Buddhist monks and nuns, Wednesday remembered their forefathers' uprising against the Chinese annexation of their land in 1959 and chanted slogans for a free Tibet in Kathmandu despite a massive police crackdown and...

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has banned two of its world-class batsmen, Younis Khan and Mohammad Yousuf, from playing international cricket for life and barred former captain Shoaib Malik and medium-pacer Rana Naveed-ul-Hassan for one year for 'unbecoming behaviour' leading to Pakistan's poor showing recently in...

Gunmen armed with assault rifles and hand grenades raided the office of a Christian aid group in northern Pakistan Monday, killing six staffers, police...

One-ninth of Nepal's nearly 27 million population face starvation, the UN warned...

A centre run by followers of Swami Paramhamsa Nithyananda, allegedly involved in a sex scandal in southern India, will not close down and will continue to promote his teachings, a Hindu leader...

America's millionaires are on the rise again after their ranks thinned out during the 2008 market meltdown, according to a new...

Dark, untouchable and a slave, yet Kali is the heroine of a campaign to protect the rights of the disadvantaged communities of Nepal, especially...

Myanmar's new election laws have barred opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and more than 2,000 other political prisoners from contesting polls planned this year, state media reports said...

Canadian-owned Pacific Rubiales has made a new oil discovery at an exploration well located in Colombia's Llanos Orientales region, a media report...

A Russian-owned company will begin production of caviar in the northwestern Argentine province of La Rioja, a spokesman for the regional government...

Gursewak Dhillon, a part-time taxi driver who dumped three-year-old Gurshan Singh Channa's body nearly 20 km from his home in this Australian city, was being probed for 'possible immigration fraud', an official said...

David Gurnani, an Indonesian of Indian origin, has been adjudged The Biggest Loser Asia (TBLA) in the weight loss reality show organised in...

Argentine oil company YPF has said that it plans to import 50 million litres of gasoline as demand outstrips supply in the South American...

Brazil will bring in a grain harvest of 145.1 million tonnes this year, a volume very close to the record 145.8 million tonnes gathered in 2008, authorities...

An American woman, nicknamed as 'Jihad Jane' and 'Fatima LaRose,' has been indicted for conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists to wage violent jihad in South Asia and...

Chilean police have recovered roughly $3 million worth of goods that were looted in the southern city of Concepcion and neighbouring towns after the Feb 27 earthquake, authorities...

Dulmatin, who is alleged to have made the bombs that killed 202 people in Bali nightclubs in 2002, has been killed in a police anti-terrorism raid near Jakarta, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono confirmed...

A 17-year-old New Zealand youth was sent to prison Wednesday for 15-and-a-half years for murdering a taxi driver who was a refugee from...

A former television producer on the David Letterman show has admitted in a New York court that he tried to extract two million dollars from the famous television...

Top prison officials in Saint Petersburg have been charged with the rape of two prisoners, one of whom was awaiting...

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Major US stock indices posted mild gains Tuesday, led by troubled financial firms bailed out by the US government in the past...

Joseph Weber President Obama said Wednesday that living conditions in Haiti remain "dire," despite recovery efforts since the Jan. 12 earthquake. He was joined at his White House speech by Haitian...

By Karen Laub ASSOCIATED PRESS RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s displeasure over an Israeli plan to enlarge an east Jerusalem settlement was on display Wednesday as he...

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CAIRO — The Arab League recommended on Wednesday to withdraw its support for indirect talks between Palestinians and Israelis due to recent announcements of new settlement building in east...

Swedish artist Lars Vilks walks in the streets without protection in Stockholm, Sweden, Wednesday March 10 2010. The Swedish artist who angered Muslims by drawing the Prophet Muhammad with the body...

Swedish artist Lars Vilks walks in the streets without protection in Stockholm, Sweden, Wednesday March 10 2010. The Swedish artist who angered Muslims by drawing the Prophet Muhammad with the body...

FILE - In this Sept. 13, 2006 file picture Pope Benedict XVI, right, walks with his brother priest Georg Ratzinger in Regensburg, southern Germany. The pope's brother says in a newspaper...

PARIS — French President Nicolas Sarkozy will open a daylong conference Thursday of some 40 nations to start turning plans into action to save the world's forests and help rein in the noxious...

RAMALLAH, West Bank — The Palestinian Authority has called off a ceremony honoring a woman involved in the deadly hijacking of an Israeli bus. The Palestinians had planned on Thursday to...

You can do nothing — and watch your child flounder while teachers register their disapproval. Or you can get help, which generally means, first, an expensive and time-consuming evaluation, then...

climate change panel so that it can try to avoid the kinds of errors that have brought its work into question in recent months, officials said...

Al Azhar , the oldest and most prestigious center of learning in the Sunni Muslim world, died Wednesday during a visit to Saudi Arabia, Egyptian state media reported. He was 81. The apparent cause...

MARY ESCH. The Associated Press CATSKILL - Prominent Lloyd Harbor thoroughbred breeder and owner Ernie Paragallo was convicted Wednesday of mistreating dozens of malnourished horses on his Hudson...

ann.givens@newsday.com Nassau District Attorney Kathleen Rice appeared on a morning TV show Wednesday to discuss the case against a Garden City mother of four accused of trying to hire a hit man to...

sophia.chang@newsday.com A William Floyd High School student who was beaten by a group of people at the school is suing the district for $10 million, according to a notice of claim his lawyer filed...

denise.bonilla@newsday.com It took a trip to Capitol Hill, but Karen Henley finally feels empowered.Henley, who was featured in Newsday's series on Alzheimer's disease in October, took her two...

Walt Disney Co., the world's biggest theme-park operator, will begin selling tickets that will be valid at all the company's U.S. parks. The ``premiere passport'' will go on sale Thursday and...