Posted: 8:37 AM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will likely win in the upcoming parliamentary elections, with no serious contenders to replace him, according to opinion polls published by two major Israeli dailies
Posted: 8:35 AM Indian police have arrested three Muslim militants suspected of planning terror attacks in New Delhi during a major Hindu festival season that starts later this month, a top police official said Thursday.
Updated: 8:45 AM A masked gunman assassinated a Yemeni security official who worked for the U.S. Embassy in a drive-by shooting near his home in the capital Sanaa on Thursday, officials said.
Posted: 7:32 AM Toyota Motor Corp. is recalling 7.43 million vehicles in the U.S., Japan, Europe and elsewhere around the world for a faulty power-window switch - the latest, massive quality woes for Japan's top automaker.
Posted: 7:04 AM In remarks to the ministers' conference here, Panetta asked that they provide the 58 teams that are needed, and give those commitments by later next month.
Posted: 7:02 AM Three jailed members of the punk band Pussy Riot told a Moscow appeals court on Wednesday that they should not be imprisoned for their irreverent protest against President Vladimir Putin
Posted: 7:00 AM Indonesian police on Wednesday warned of a possible terrorist threat targeting dignitaries planning to commemorate Friday's 10th anniversary of the Bali bombings
Posted: 6:58 AM Iraq's top energy official is predicting that the country's current oil production of 3.4 million barrels per day will double by 2015.
Posted: 6:57 AM With congestion in the capital is going from bad to infernal, an increasing number of people see cycling as a solution.
Posted: 6:54 AM A news agency says Turkey's military chief has vowed to respond "with more force" against Syria if shelling from the country continues.
Posted: 6:46 AM An aide to former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says he is considering running for office to challenge incumbent Benjamin Netanyahu.
Posted: 2:30 PM In a televised address, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was forced to order the vote after his coalition could not agree on a budget.
Updated: 11:47 AM An Egyptian-born preacher has pleaded not guilty in New York to charges that he conspired with Seattle men to set up a terrorist training camp in Oregon.
Posted: 8:52 AM A gunman walked up to a bus taking children home from school in Pakistan's volatile Swat Valley Tuesday and shot and wounded a 14-year-old activist known for championing the education of girls
Posted: 8:49 AM A series of explosions has rocked a Russian military test site, releasing giant clouds of smoke over Orenburg near the Kazakhstan border and causing aftershocks.
Posted: 8:45 AM Amid draconian security measures, German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived Tuesday for her first visit to Greece since the eurozone crisis began there three years ago.
Posted: 8:18 AM The United Nations now says its 2009 headline-grabbing announcement that 1 billion people in the world were hungry was off-target and that the number is actually more like 870 million.
Posted: 8:09 AM Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Tuesday that Ankara can rely on the alliance, which has "all necessary plans in place to protect and defend Turkey if necessary."
Posted: 8:05 AM Israel's military has deployed a missile defense system near the Lebanese border, days after warplanes shot down a mysterious unmanned aircraft that entered its skies.
Posted: 7:49 AM Libyan lawyer Ahmed al-Jehani, was speaking at the start of a two-day hearing at the International Criminal Court that will go a long way to deciding where Seif al-Islam Gadhafi will be put on trial
Posted: 7:46 AM During his re-election campaign, President Hugo Chavez promised to deepen the "21st century socialism" that has meant an ever-greater state role in the economy.
Posted: 6:59 AM President Hugo Chavez put to rest any doubts about his masterful political touch in winning a third consecutive six-year term after a bitterly fought race
Updated: 7:18 AM The prize committee at Stockholm's Karonlinska institute said the discovery has "revolutionized our understanding of how cells and organisms develop."
Posted: 6:55 AM American companies should avoid doing business with China's two leading technology firms because they pose a national security threat to the United States
Posted: 6:52 AM Abdulbaset Sieda's comments Monday appear to be a softening of the opposition's stance that it will accept nothing less than the complete removal of the Assad regime and its inner circle.
