More aid pledges for Pakistan have come through after complaints that the international community's response to the devastating floods was inadequate.
The European Union promised an extra $39m following higher commitments from Australia and Japan, while t...
As Some Young Muslims Turn to Radicalism, Concern Grows
FRANKFURT — Before Abi left her parents’ house in northern Germany last year, she asked her father, “Daddy, what can I bring you from my journey?” He looked up from his book and answered, “Some perfumed oil.&#...
MOSCOW — Stoked by parched forests, dried-out swamps and the hottest summertime temperatures ever recorded in Russia, wildfires burned down several villages in the central part of the country, killing about two dozen people, government officials ...
MAHMUD-E RAQI, Afghanistan — Women’s precarious rights in Afghanistan have begun seeping away. Girls’ schools are closing; working women are threatened; advocates are attacked; and terrified families are increasingly confining their...
DUISBURG, GERMANY — On Saturday, this city plans to hold a memorial service for the 21 people who died after being trampled in a tunnel trying to attend the Love Parade music festival here.
The Germany chancellor, Angela Merkel, was to interrupt h...
Debate Heating Up on Plans for Mosque Near Ground Zero
An influential Jewish organization on Friday announced its opposition to a proposed Islamic center and mosque two blocks north of ground zero in Lower Manhattan, intensifying a fierce national debate about the limits of religious freedom and...
BP relief well 'days from completion' as cap stays shut
The Development Driller II drills a relief well at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, June 2010 The Development Driller II has been drilling one of the two relief wells
Hope is rising that the ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well...
The leader of a Kurdish rebel group engaged in a guerrilla war with Turkey has told the BBC it is willing to disarm in return for greater political and cultural rights for Turkey's Kurds.
The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is designated a terror...
Darfur Jem rebels sign deal to stop child soldiers
Jem rebel fighters studying before heading out on patrol - photographed at a base on 9 September 2004 Jem says it has no child soldiers in its ranks now
A Sudanese rebel group has signed an agreement to allow the UN access to its bases to che...
