Just five days after the United States declared the end of its combat mission in Iraq, U.S. soldiers opened fire Sunday morning on suicide bombers who snuck into an Iraqi army base in Baghdad, a U.S. military spokesman said. The assailants detonated a...

U.S. and Guatemalan archaeologists have found an unusually well-preserved burial chamber that they believe is the tomb of the founder of a Maya dynasty, a find that promises new information about the empire’s formative period. Archaeologist...

Lori Berenson has a mild manner, a bad back, an infant son and dreams of opening a bakery – but for her new neighbours, she will never be anything but a terrorist. The 40-year-old American has triggered shudders and protests in the plush Miraflores...

The plight of hundreds of children currently languishing in adult jails in Turkey has become the center of a major political debate. The children, most of whom are Kurds convicted of taking part in illegal demonstrations, has also raised concerns by...

A 26-year-old Tunisian woman has been fined for wearing a face veil while walking to a mosque in northern Italy, adding to the growing debate on the integration of Muslim minorities in Europe. The police in the city of Novara, a stronghold of Italy’s...

Executives at The Washington Times are negotiating to sell the newspaper, which was founded in 1982 and funded by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church. Nicholas Chiaia, a member of the newspaper’s two-person board of directors,...

Suing your parents isn’t just for celebrities anymore–a 16-year-old Arkansas boy is suing his mother for hacking into his Facebook account and allegedly posting slanderous remarks. KATV-TV reports that Denise New of Arkadelphia is facing...

On Monday night, Anthony Hopkins, 37, preached forgiveness at a church revival in Jackson. Seven of his eight children sat on the front row, and Hopkins looked his kids over and asked them to forgive him for his sins, “past, present, and future.”...

Maj. Simon Laurencine watched as two yellow dots lit up the radar screen in the bridge of Topaz, his Seychelles Coast Guard patrol boat 230 miles off the Indian Ocean islands. The first dot was 3 miles away and moving fast toward him. The searchlights...

Anyone can get over their head or make bad financial decisions. Even athletes, who earn millions of dollars a year, can find themselves in a financial mess; so it is no wonder that regular people find themselves drowning in debt. Bad financial decisions...