Charles Taylor’s lawyer, Courtenay Griffiths, has told the BBC’s Peter Biles that he will return to court and re-engage with the proceedings when and if the judges accept his final brief.

Basque terror group ETA, which has killed more than 800 people in a four-decade fight for independence from Spain, announced a permanent cease-fire. “ETA has decided to declare a permanent and general cease- fire that can be verified by the...

TEHRAN, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) — The Iranian woman Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani who is charged with extramarital affairs, and her son said that they would sue the two German nationals for the illegal interview attempts.

(Reuters) - China will take into account India’s downstream interests on the transborder Brahmaputra river when constructing hydropower projects, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said on Thursday.

Philadelphia Eagles’ quarterback Michael Vick will join the Humane Society of the United States in speaking about the horrors of dogfighting with students of two high schools in New Haven, Connecticut, on Tuesday.

NORFOLK, Va. — The first piracy case to be tried in a U.S. court since the Civil War went to jurors Monday after they heard closing arguments in the prosecution of five Somali defendants accused in an April 1 attack on a Navy ship off the coast of...

NEW YORK (AP) — A Moscow-bound flight carrying more than 200 people returned safely to John F. Kennedy International Airport after one of its two engines failed Sunday night, authorities said. No one was injured.

Evidence of a new North Korean nuclear plant is disappointing and provocative, says the top US envoy on North Korea, Stephen Bosworth.

Washingtom (CNN) — Internet traffic from several U.S. government agency sites was briefly diverted through servers in China in April, congressional investigators reported Wednesday. For 18 minutes, about 15 percent of all web traffic was...

China will not drop its one-child policy, officials say, 30 years after Beijing decreed the population-control measure. “I, on behalf of the National Population and Family Planning Commission, extend profound gratitude to all, the people in...