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Iran's top leader insists the Islamic Republic is not seeking nuclear weapons, saying they are "useless, harmful and dangerous."
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European researchers have found a flaw in the technical setup of an experiment that measured seemingly impossible faster-than-light particles.
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The Council of Europe's anti-torture committee is pressuring Germany to do away with the practice of surgical castration of sex offenders.
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Thousands of people have flocked to Yangon's famous Shwedagon Pagoda to witness the return of an annual festival that was banned for more than 20 years
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Wednesday marks the Tibetan lunar new year
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Legal authorities say a judge at England's High Court has allowed lawyers to log on to Facebook to serve legal claims.
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Chile's government says it will reopen the border with Peru by Wednesday night, following heavy rains that displaced land mines and floated some onto the Pan-American Highway.
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The U.N. nuclear agency says its experts have again failed to dent Iran's refusal to cooperate in probing allegations that Tehran covertly worked on an atomic arms program.
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Officials say three inmates have been killed in a northern Mexico prison a few miles from the penitentiary where 44 gang members were massacred this week.
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Oil prices are at the highest level since May on concerns that Iran will cut off more oil to Europe.
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London Olympic organizers say an 80-mile dress rehearsal for the torch relay will go through both rural and urban locations in central England.
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The United Nations is warning that Eastern European countries along the Danube could face flooding as the iced-over waterway thaws following a record-breaking cold snap.
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An international rights group says Somalia's militants and government forces are recruiting children to fight and in some cases to serve as "cannon fodder" for adult fighters.
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Vietnam says a large ongoing outbreak of a common childhood virus could worsen this year.
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Greeks have woken up to the news that their country will likely avoid defaulting on its debt mountain next month and that the euro will remain their currency.
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A safety panel says 15,000 people die annually while crossing tracks in India's massive rail network and the country urgently needs to build bridges and overpasses.
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A 72-year-old man from western Nepal is hoping to prove to Guinness World Records that he's the world's shortest man.
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The Philippine police have launched a new anti-kidnapping force to deal with the long-standing scourge by criminal syndicates and al-Qaida-linked militants.
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Hundreds of relatives of inmates who burned or suffocated to death in a Honduras prison fire have forced their way into a morgue to demand the remains of their loved ones.
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Britain's health minister has been angrily heckled as he entered a meeting on the government's divisive health care reforms.
