TEHRAN - Amid Iran's standoff with the West over its contentious nuclear programme, the UN nuclear watchdog has said that Tehran stopped its inspectors from visiting Parchin, a key military site....

BEIRUT - At least 27 civilians were shot dead by Syrian security forces after a midnight village raid in a northern province, activists said Wednesday.

"Military forces chased civilians in...

AUCKLAND - Founder of file sharing website Megaupload.com Kim Dotcom alias Kim Schmitz, who has been jailed here since January 20 at the request of the US, has been granted bail by a New Zealand...

SAN FRANCISCO - Dell, the world's No.3 computer maker, has predicted weak sales for the current quarter triggering slump in its stocks that went down by over seven percent in pre-market trading...

Two officials of the US Congress have received letters that contained a "suspicious powdery substance", following which officials sent out a warning cautioning other staffers to be on the...

Cambodian immigrants in Los Angeles, California, who want to vote in November's U.S. presidential election are getting help this year. Some 60,000 Cambodians live in the area -- so election officials...

These pancake racing contestants are Yanks outside the National Cathedral in Washington. But the tradition started across the pond (Atlantic) in England.

Even Prince William and Kate Middleton...

The United Arab Emirates has expressed its keenness to strengthen economic, trade and investment relations with the Latin America countries, especially Chile, in near future.

UAE's Abdullah Al...

A woman from Texas contributed 255,000 dollars to the William J. Clinton Foundation last year to spend a day with its Presidential leader Bill Clinton and provided charity-auction organizer...

The White House has attributed the rising fuel prices in America partly to the economic boom in countries like India and China and unrest in other parts of the world.

"The rise in gas prices is...

An alleged Iranian hit squad used 27 dollar portable radios to hide at least five bombs that Israeli and American authorities said they intended to target Israelis in Bangkok.

A photograph of one...

Two Western journalists, one American and one French, have reportedly been killed in the bombardment of Syrian city of Homs.

According to Syrian activists, journalists died after a shell hit a...

Pakistan military's deliberate attempt to put further pressure on the Americans and Indians through Difa-i-Pakistan Council is not going to benefit the country, an editorial has claimed.

Pakistan...

Manchester United's debt has dipped below 500 million pounds for the first time since American businessmen, the Glazers took over the club.

At the end of the year 2011, United's debt stands at 439...

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney has said that President Barack Obama is focused on policy and helping the middle class, and not questions raised by Republican candidate Rick Santorum and...

Jeremy Lin has made it to the cover of the Sports Illustrated magazine for the second consecutive week, becoming the first New York athlete to do so.

The undrafted point guard with a Harvard diploma...

A former Playboy Playmate, who had sued the New York Police Department claiming they manhandled her following an altercation with a cab driver in 2006, has been awarded 1.2 million dollars by a civil...

Mick Jagger was visited by Barack Obama when the pop star was rehearsing for a White House concert celebrating blues music.

The Rolling Stones rocker tweeted Monday that the president "listened to a...

The US was pleased by the willingness expressed by Afghan President Hamid Karzai to talk directly to the Taliban, State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland has said.

"I think we have been...

US motorists drove 1.2 percent fewer miles in 2011, the lowest level measured since 2003, while concerns about the high cost of gasoline are rising, the government announced Tuesday.

According to...

Suggesting that rising powers like India, China and Brazil were putting economics at the centre of their foreign policies, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton advocates Economic Statecraft to champion...

Muslim holy books that were burnt at a US military base in Afghanistan contained extremist inscriptions, a western military official has said.

The military official said it appeared the Qurans and...

US State Secretary Hillary Clinton will Feb 23 start a tour of Britain, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco.

"On February 23, Clinton will begin a four-nation trip to London and North Africa," State...

BILOXI, MS (WLOX) - It is one of the most recognizable properties on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, but the owner of the historic White House Hotel in Biloxi must make some decisions soon about its...

Americans are getting their first national museum devoted exclusively to African American life, art, history and culture. When complete it will be the Smithsonian Institution's 19th museum....

Imagine you paid thousands of dollars for a vacant lot where you wanted to build your dream house. The lot is 500 feet from a rural lake, with only a couple of houses between the lot and the lake,...

EL PASO, Texas -; El Paso residents say they're accustomed to hearing gunfire across the border in Juarez, Mexico, and won't be taking any additional safety measures after a woman shopping...

FARGO, N.D. -; Attorneys for a Canadian man convicted in what investigators said was one of the largest credit card schemes in U.S. history tediously denied Wednesday that he owes nearly $750,000 in...

RICHMOND, Va. -; Amid a public uproar that prompted Virginia's governor to withdraw his support, Republican legislators on Wednesday dropped a bitterly contested proposal to require that women...

WASHINGTON -; The U.S. has reportedly reached a plea deal with a former Maryland man held at Guantanamo accused of joining al-Qaida and participating in a series of post-Sept. 11 terror...

This photo released by the Etowah County Sheriff's Dept. on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012 shows Jessica Mae Hardin, 27. Hardin and 46-year-old Joyce Hardin Garrard, stepmother and grandmother of a...

RENO, Nev. -; The brother of a 67-year-old Nevada man who was sentenced to 14 years in prison for possession of child pornography said Wednesday the punishment was harsher than the crime...

A worker cleans the front entrance to the Sacramento Municipal Utility District building, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012, that was still cordoned off by police tape after a Tuesday night shooting that left...

PORTLAND, Ore. -; A Saudi Arabian teenager who authorities say swung his fist at a flight attendant and mentioned Osama bin Laden during a flight from Portland to Houston has appeared in...

But authorities say the weapons charges against 26-year-old Saad Elorch are only loosely related to the case against 29-year-old Amine El Khalifi of Alexandria. Authorities say El Khalifi was...

SAN FRANCISCO -; A federal judge in San Francisco ruled Wednesday that the U.S. government cannot deny health benefits to the wife of lesbian court employee by relying on the 1996 law that bars...

DENVER -; Strong wind gusts have delayed flights in Denver, downed power lines in Boulder, and prompted evacuations near a small grass fire in Boulder...

WASHINGTON -; A former District of Columbia police commander whose division provided a police escort to actor Charlie Sheen last April has given notice that he intends to file a whistleblower...

The Foundry Wednesday, February 22, 2012 This year's Index of Dependence on Government presented startling findings about the sharp increase of Americans who rely on the federal government for...

A Georgia man who joined a conspiracy to use homeless people to cash fake checks pleaded guilty today, and prosecutors described him as part of a nationwide conspiracy to use the down-and-out to...

Madrid, Feb 22 (Prensa Latina) The Izquierda Unida (IU) coalition urged the Spanish conservative government to support the processes of integration in Latin America and demand the end of the US...

Havana, Feb 22 (Prensa Latina) Several South American countries remain today in a state of emergency due to heavy rainfall associated with La Nia weather phenomenon that has unleashed chaos in the...

February 22, 2012 The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala, Harold Caballeros, reaffirmed today before the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) the commitment of its...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the man charged with plotting a suicide bombing attack on the US Capitol to remain in jail while prosecutors prepare an official indictment,...

National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. The museum, Obama said, has been "a long time coming" and will serve "not just as a record of tragedy, but...

By msnbc.com staff Rick Santorum is far from alone in professing a belief in Satan. In fact, most Americans believe in the devil too.Santorum, the former Pennsylvania senator and 2012 Republican...

DALLAS -- American Airlines says that because of job-sharing and other steps, it won't have to furlough 500 flight attendants this spring.American said two weeks ago that it planned to cut 500...

A Texas man said he never planned to kill his former neighbor and thought about freeing her after he kidnapped and sexually assaulted her, according to his audio-recorded interview with investigators...