Barack Obama has sent a rallying letter to the CIA after seven staff were killed by an Afghan bomber - one of the worst attacks in the agency's history.

JERUSALEM -- The first year in a decade without a suicide bombing, as well as an expanded Palestinian security force, resulted in a decline in the number of Israeli and Palestinian casualties in the occupied West ...

Finnish police have confirmed they have found the body of a gunman responsible for killing five people in a shooting rampage in the southern city of Espoo.

An activist was protecting a candle from the wind at an activity held by the Coalition of Anti-graft Civil Society (KOMPAK) to recollect late Abdurahman Wahid or Gus Dur at the Hotel Indonesia roundabout in Jakarta on Thursday(Dec. 31).

MIR ALI, Pakistan - Pakistani intelligence officials say a US missile strike has killed three people near the Afghan border. The two officials said early Friday's attack destroyed a car carrying three men in a village near Mir Ali, which is a main town ...

New South Wales Premier Kristina Keneally hopes the New Year's Eve celebrations in Sydney will create up to $156 million in revenue for the state.

Russian authorities have brought in new measures imposing a minimum price for all vodka sold in the country. The move is part of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's plan to tackle alcoholism.

The journey to find the truth behind the kidnapping of the five British men kidnapped in Iraq in May 2007 has been a long one. We at Guardian Films set out to find out why they had become the forgotten hostages.

JERSUSALEM -- Israeli officials say they will support President Obama's move to impose sanctions on Iran as a next step in the standoff over the country's nuclear program, though the narrower measures being considered by the White ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN) -- The US Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, warned Thursday of an indication of an attack to Bali on New Year's Eve.

PARIS, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) -- One of French artist Edgar Degas' paintings was stolen overnight from a museum in south France's port city of Marseilles, police said on Thursday.

North Korea has called for an end to hostile relations with the United States in a New Year message in which it also renews a commitment to a nuclear-free Korean pensinsula.

From Friday's Globe and Mail Published on Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009 9:51PM EST Last updated on Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009 11:02PM EST Amid ever-tighter military constraints, the art of war reporting in Afghanistan has evolved into the art of compromise.

A Malaysian court has overturned a government ban on non-Muslim publications using the word "Allah". Ruling on a lawsuit filed by a Malaysian Roman Catholic church publication, the Kuala Lumpur High Court said on Thursday that the home ministry's ban ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Friday it was reviewing airport security and passenger screening procedures after a Nigerian who had studied in Britain was charged over last week's failed plot to bomb a US passenger jet.

Cardinal Cahal Daly was an intellectual heavyweight who presided over some of the most testing times the Catholic Church in Ireland has faced.

President Karzai's security chiefs have demanded that America should hand over the gunmen behind a night raid in eastern Afghanistan that government investigators and the United Nations say killed at least eight schoolchildren.

Two French reporters have been kidnapped north-east of the Afghan capital Kabul, Afghan officials say. They say the journalists were seized in Kapisa province, along with three Afghans travelling with them.

The Ignalina plant, the only nuclear reactor in the Baltic states, stopped producing electricity at 2300 local time (2100 GMT). The closure of the Soviet-era plant was a condition of Lithuania's membership of the European Union.

MOSCOW, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) -- Russia has no knowledge of an alleged Iranian plan to import purified uranium ore from Kazakhstan, the foreign ministry said Thursday.