`ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia — Russian authorities named a suspected suicide bomber of Moscow’s airport and arrested his teenage brother and sister, an official said Wednesday.

News network al-Jazeera is having quite a month. Its finest hour came with its coverage of the Tunisian uprising – while the BBC was focusing on the plight of British tourists, al-Jazeera became the go-to destination for up-to-the-minute news on the...

Jerusalem (CNN) — The United States is committed to enticing Israeli and Palestinian leaders back into peace talks, a State Department spokesman said Tuesday, even though progress on a West Bank settlement freeze agreement stalled a day earlier.

Nov. 17 (Bloomberg) — A Qantas Airways Ltd. plane bound for Sydney returned to Johannesburg after striking birds, the Australian carrier’s fifth report of a turned-around flight in the past two weeks.

MEXICO CITY — Medical authorities in Haiti defended their decision Tuesday not to focus on finding the origins of a cholera outbreak that has killed more than 1,000 people and stoked violent demonstrations against United Nations peacekeepers, whom...

WASHINGTON — For the United States, a recent tripling in the number of night raids by Special Operations forces to capture or kill Afghan insurgents has begun to put heavy pressure on the Taliban and change the momentum in the war in Afghanistan. For...

KABUL - Gen. David H. Petraeus, the coalition military commander in Afghanistan, warned Afghan officials Sunday that President Hamid Karzai’s latest public criticism of U.S. strategy threatens to seriously undermine progress in the war and risks...

In 2007, Kelly Valen wrote a personal essay for The New York Times’ Modern Love column titled, “My Sorority Pledge? I Swore Off Sisterhood.” In the column, Valen details how the cruelty she experienced in her college sorority caused...

Early on in his newly released memoir, George W. Bush writes with great credibility, and a welcome absence of histrionics, about his slow-motion turn toward faith. There was no fiery epiphany. There was a growing comfort with the calming release of...

(CNN) — Three boys were reunited with their mothers Wednesday in California, more than two years after they were allegedly kidnapped by their fathers and taken into hiding in Europe, the FBI said.