A pilot police program to intimidate known offenders is not exactly scaring them out of their wits, but the mere presence of bobbies on the beat helps keep down crime

Officials in the north Chinese province at the heart of a toxic milk scandal hid a coal mine explosion in July that killed more than 30 miners, state media reported.

Afghan refugees ordered out of a Pakistani war zone have begun flowing over the border into their homeland, worsening a humanitarian crisis resulting from an army offensive against Taliban militants, officials said.

Gaza rulers pledge to pick their own leader

Militants deny talks have taken place to keep fighters motivated and reject the government's conditions for coming to the table

NASHVILLE, Oct. 7 -- On a day when the stock market took another sharp plunge, presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama clashed repeatedly here Tuesday night over the causes of the economic meltdown that has shaken the country and offered sharply contrasting prescriptions for how to r...

Asian stocks dropped sharply in Wednesday trading, after the Dow on Wall Street lost 500 points, closing at its lowest point in five years.

Russian troops on Wednesday started pulling back from checkpoints in a buffer zone outside Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia region, a Russian military spokesman said

BARACK Obama seemed to phone it in, but still evaded a knockout punch from John McCain today.

For the past month, China's government and dairy industry have struggled to contain the spread of tainted milk products, from ...