Egyptian police suspect Islamic militants are responsible for spreading attacks in the Sinai and elsewhere in Egypt.Mostafa Darwish/Associated Press The comments were the first account by Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi of…
Belgian physicist Francois Englert, left, and British physicist Peter Higgs are getting the Noble Prize in physics for their research on how the universe was formed after the Big Bang.…
President Barack Obama says he will not negotiate with House Republicans while they are threatening “economic chaos” by refusing to allow a vote to reopen the federal government and to…
Activists and residents of Rio de Janeiro’s slums say the the number of missing people is increasing, and many say Brazilian police are responsible. Brazilian police are trying to clean…
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a letter to the U.N. Security Council obtained by The Associated Press that the goal of destroying Syria’s chemical weapons program by mid-2014 will require…
Chris Huber/Associated Press<br><br>Roads and streets were being reopened Monday after a record-breaking snow storm hit South Dakota over the weekend. Crews are working to clear roads and restore power to…
Navy SEALs targeted al-Shabab fighters in Somalia during a weekend raid in Somalia. The SEAL team was trying to capture Abdulkadir Mohamed Abdulkadir, a Kenyan who plotted attacks on Kenya’s…
The Nobel Prize for medicine will be shared by Americans James Rothman, Randy Schekman and German-born researcher Thomas Sudhof for their work in showing proteins and other materials are transported…
Afghan President Hamid Karzai wants to convene a council of elders to review and accept any agreement with the United States to keep some troops in the country after the…
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky is one of the petitioners asking the Supreme Court to remove restrictions on how much individuals can contribute to political campaigns. The Supreme…
Former Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt says the Obama administration didn’t have enough time to test the federal website that was set up to help uninsured Americans sign…
Israeli MP Labour Party member Hilik Bar, left, visits Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to try to help encourage peace talks between the Israel and the Palestinians.Abbas Momani/Associated Press Visiting the…
President Barack Obama thanks workers at the Federal Emergency Management Agency in Washington during a visit to the agency’s headquarters Monday. The agency recalled about 200 furloughed workers last week…
On Monday, more than three years later, clips from the spill cam were projected on a screen in a New Orleans courtroom while lawyers for BP and the federal government…
Obama calls for immediate vote, but negotiations on shutdown in a deadlock
The rancorous budget fight offers a crash course in the arcane ways and language of Congress that sometimes defy logic. The stalemate also has cast a spotlight on the institutional…
In finishing term, justices to hear several social-issue cases
Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, 49, known by his alias Abu Anas al-Libi, was living in Tripoli and was captured by U.S. officials Saturday on the streets of the Libyan capital. He…
The candidacies ended weeks of speculation over who will aspire to replace President Hamid Karzai, who has essentially run the country since the Oct. 7, 2001 invasion that ousted the…
Although not among the showiest showers of the year, the Draconids stand out for one reason: Unlike most meteor showers, they are best seen in the evening rather than before…
A man crosses the street as shepherds lead their sheep through the centre of Madrid, Spain, on Sunday. Spanish shepherds led flocks of sheep through the streets of downtown Madrid…
About 150 more are believed to still be missing, many likely trapped in the wreckage 47 meters (154 feet) below the surface. The enormous scale of the tragedy, which could…
The inspectors from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons have about nine months to purge President Bashar Assad’s regime of its chemical program. The mission, endorsed by the…
Forensic investigators inspect a Mitsubishi Lancer saloon car parked a short distance from the entrance to the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, on Sept. 26. Kenya’s counter-terrorism police unit released…
Boehner to Obama: No debt hike without concessions
Al-Shabab fighters stand in formation with their weapons during military exercises on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia, on Feb. 17, 2011. International military forces carried out a pre-dawn strike Saturday…
Some areas of South Dakota get 20-plus inches of powder; 15 are hurt after Nebraska twisters
al-Ruqaidu1-i-syn The official identified the al-Qaida leader as Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, known by his alias Anas al-Libi. His capture would represent a significant blow to what remains of the core…
Teddy bears and flowers sit on coffins of dead African migrants inside a hangar of Lampedusa’s airport in Italy on Saturday. A ship carrying the migrants toward Italy sank Thursday…
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s comments came after hard-liners criticized the 15-minute phone conversation between Rouhani and Obama, a gesture aimed at ending three decades of estrangement between the two countries. Hard-liners,…
