TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Manuel Zelaya was close to slipping into Honduran history books as a former president with ideas as large as his signature Stetson hat, but nowhere near enough political consensus to remake his troubled country.

MORONI, Comoros (AP) - A teenage girl who is the only known survivor of a Yemeni jetliner crash could barely swim but managed to hang on long enough for rescuers to find her in the ocean, her father told French radio Wednesday.

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraqi forces were in control of towns and cities nationwide after the pullout of US troops six years after the invasion, but a bloody car bombing underscored the tough challenge ahead.

CAIRO - As the Iranian government sought to close the book on weeks of protest that presented the strongest challenge to its authority in 30 years, an opposition candidate in the disputed June 12 voting again ...

Lorenzo Galassi/AP A firefighter sprayed down a car of a freight train that was carrying liquefied petroleum gas. The train derailed late Monday.

Iraq contains some of the world's richest oil reserves, but low fees being offered by Baghdad kept refiners away. (By Nabil Al-jurani -- Associated Press) Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material ...

A boat carrying foreign activists and three tons of medical supplies was rerouted Tuesday. Meanwhile, the fishing industry - a key source of jobs and protein - has been crippled.

PARACHINAR, Pakistan (AP) - Tribesmen attacked Taliban hideouts in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, killing 28 militants and suffering seven fatalities themselves, and the intensifying battles prompted them to ask for army troops to help, ...

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called off a trip to Libya for an African Union summit Wednesday that would have given the hardline president another chance to appear at an international forum after his ...

The Obama administration yesterday began a campaign to curtail North Korea's ability to finance its trade in missiles and nuclear materials, with the Treasury and State Departments announcing actions against two North Korean companies, ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - A North Korean ship under scrutiny for more than a week by the US Navy has changed course and was heading back the way it came, US officials said, as Pyongyang warned Wednesday it will take military action if anyone attempts ...

A new law has come into effect in Russia, confining gambling to four regions far from the capital Moscow. It bans gambling on the internet and at airports, supermarkets and other sites.

PARIS, France (CNN) -- Al Qaeda threatened to "take revenge" on France "by every means and wherever we can reach them" because of a debate in France over whether the burqa, a traditional Islamic woman's covering, violates French law, according to a ...

BUENOS AIRES -- The Argentine capital city, hit hard by the H1N1 flu strain, commonly known as swine flu, declared a health emergency and said it will add two weeks to school holidays in July.

Sweden has called on the European Union to take the lead in fighting climate change despite facing the worst economic downturn since the 1930s.

by Letters to the Editor Why are so many people confused about President Barack Obama's not speaking out more quickly to condemn the rigged election in Iran?

By VOA News United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has made an appeal ahead of his trip to Burma for the country's military government to release all political prisoners.

July 1 (Bloomberg) -- National Express Group was stripped of its contract to run Britain's East Coast rail service between London and Scotland as the recession undermines profitability on the nation's privatized rail ...

KARLSRUHE, Germany (AFP) - Germany's top court on Tuesday delayed the ratification of the European Union's Lisbon Treaty but leaders expressed confidence that the landmark reforms would still be adopted soon.

Pope Benedict XVI greets Mary Zwilling with NY Archbishop Timothy Dolan and his mother Shirley at the Vatican in Rome. ROME - You couldn't always spot the little girl as she wended her way forward, dwarfed as she was by dozens of grownups, ...