SAN JOSE, Chile (AP): Chilean President Sebastian Piñera said yesterday he hopes 33 miners trapped nearly a half-mile underground will be home by Christmas, a lengthy rescue timeline that doesn't sq...
Health officials in India say a viral fever that spreads through mosquito bites is likely to be at its peak during next month's Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.
The authorities in Venezuela have exhumed the remains of two sisters of independence hero Simon Bolivar, as part of an investigation into whether he was murdered.
It is an image that will melt the hearts of even the fiercest political enemies.Cradling his newly born daughter, British Prime Minister David Cameron is, in a single camera click, transformed from world statesman to humble...
Muslim countries, organisations and individuals have pledged nearly US$1 billion in cash and relief supplies to help Pakistan respond to the worst floods in the nation's history, the head of a group of Islamic...
Cuba has issued a pair of surprising free-market decrees, allowing foreign investors to lease government land for up to 99 years potentially touching off a golf-course building boom.
The governor of the American state of New Mexico, Bill Richardson, has described the relationship between the United States and Cuba as the best in years.
Security authorities in Venezuela say they've seized more than four tons of cocaine at a ranch after F-16 fighter jets intercepted a plane that was flying to pick up the load.
