Romania faces a run-off vote after no clear winner emerged in a presidential election overshadowed by a political crisis that has threatened to derail emergency international funding for the country's recession-ravaged economy.

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva may lose global influence by playing host to the Iranian leader, who is searching for new economic opportunities ahead of stiff sanctions the West has threatened.

Rescue workers enter a mine shaft on Sunday to save workers still trapped deep underground in China's Heilongjiang province. Beijing, China (CNN) -- Chinese officials blamed poor management and inadequate precautions for an explosion at a mine that ...

The campaign to stop global warming now has an A-list of supporters from the world of showbiz. The Prius-driving Hollywood star is the leading climate change celebrity.

Several Palestinian armed groups in the Gaza Strip have denied Hamas claims that an agreement has been brokered among them to stop firing rockets across the border into Israel.

HANGU, Pakistan, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Pakistani security forces backed by tanks and artillery attacked Taliban positions in the northwest of the country, killing 22 militants, a senior police official on Monday.

Survivors of an Indonesian ferry disaster that killed at least 29 people say the ship was overloaded with people and luggage. The ferry sank in bad weather as it was travelling from Batam Island to ...

WASHINGTON - India has watched with wariness as President Barack Obama's administration has lavished attention on rivals Pakistan and China.

AP There's nothing like the threat of war to mobilize the support of a nation. So perhaps it's not surprising that posturing over a soccer war with Algeria may be the most popular move the thoroughly ...

Debris and rubbish from the river Cocker outside homes in Cockermouth. Photograph: Anna Gowthorpe/PA Cumbria is facing up to the aftermath of the most severe flooding in its history, with thousands affected by the devastation.

The inquiry into events surrounding the Iraq war will not produce a report that is a "whitewash", Sir John Chilcot, the man in charge of it, has insisted.

By Rahmat Gul, AP By Jim Michaels, USA TODAY KABUL - When President Obama demanded this month that Afghan President Hamid Karzai tackle government corruption, no one welcomed the news more than Kabul real estate broker Haji Asadullah Safi.

The mountains of eastern Afghanistan. The number of troops the east would get varies in the options before President Obama. By ELISABETH BUMILLER WASHINGTON - Should President Obama decide to send 40000 additional American troops to Afghanistan, ...

Dozens of fires continue to burn out of control across New South Wales despite the cooler conditions. The Rural Fire Service (RFS) says the major fires are on the state's far north coast in the Liverpool ranges, the central west and in the Hawkesbury ...

GUWAHATI, India, Nov 22 (Reuters) - At least six people were killed and 40 wounded in two bomb blasts in northeast India's troubled Assam state on Sunday, police said.

Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Northern Ireland police arrested a fourth man in connection with a gun attack close to the border with the Irish republic, an unidentified spokeswoman said.

A former Iranian vice-president has reportedly been released on bail having been convicted of fomenting unrest after June's disputed elections.

BROMONT, Quebec - A Canadian woman on long-term sick leave for depression says she lost her benefits because her insurance agent found photos of her on Facebook in which she appeared to be having fun.

A dissident who tried to help the victims of last year's disastrous earthquake in China has been jailed for three years. Veteran Chinese human rights activist Huang Qi had been working with the parents of ...

BEIJING, Nov 22 (Reuters) - International pressure on China to lift the value of its yuan against the dollar could stoke risks to growth in 2010, an economist at a top state thinktank has said, warning of a deepening dilemma facing currency policy.