A blind Chinese legal activist who was suddenly allowed to leave the country has arrived in the United States with his family.

Defence lawyers say Chicago police have vastly trumped up charges against three men arrested earlier this week, as part of a campaign to frighten peaceful protesters away from a NATO summit.

A bomb exploded Saturday outside an Italian high school named after a slain anti-Mafia prosecutor, killing a teenage girl and wounding several other classmates, officials said.

A suicide vehicle bomb tore through the parking lot of a military compound in an eastern Syrian city on Saturday, killing nine people in the latest in a series of blasts in recent months targeting security installations, the country’s state media repor…

A Roman Catholic priest who is one of the Mexico’s most outspoken advocates for migrant rights is leaving his country after receiving death threats.

A new private supply ship for the International Space Station remains stuck on the ground after rocket engine trouble led to a last-second abort of the historic flight.

A bomb has exploded outside a high school in southern Italy named after a slain anti-Mafia prosecutor as students arrived for class, killing a teenage girl and wounding several other classmates, officials said.

Syrian security forces fire tear gas and live ammunition to disperse thousands rallying in Aleppo in what activists said was the largest protest yet in a city that has largely remained loyal to President Bashar Assad during the country’s 15-month upris…

The release of German-Canadian former arms lobbyist Karlheinz Schreiber on bail from a Munich prison has been confirmed by a German court, according to a media report.

U.S. President Barack Obama welcomes Canada’s prime minister and five other world leaders today to a bucolic presidential retreat as he kicks off two international summits.

Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg took the company public on Friday but the stock price closed just barely above its IPO price as stock markets closed.

The euro fell to a four-month low against the U.S. dollar Friday after Germany’s finance minister said the market turmoil over Europe’s debt crisis could drag on for up to two more years.

The man once considered China’s most-wanted fugitive was sentenced to life in prison for smuggling and bribery in a lurid corruption case that reached into the highest echelons of the Communist Party and involved a decade-long extradition fight in Vanc…

The UN nuclear agency chief will fly to Tehran over the weekend to sign a deal meant to allow his organization to resume a long-stalled search for evidence that Iran worked on developing nuclear arms, the agency and diplomats say.

China’s rapidly expanding navy has provoked a shift in U.S. strategic interests to the Western Pacific and Canada is probably going to be dragged along, Brian Stewart writes. Beijing is not amused.