CAIRO — Libya’s prime minister, Ali Zeidan, was kidnapped from a hotel in the capital, Tripoli, on Thursday and briefly held in an apparent act of retaliation for his presumed consent to the... Read more
Barack Obama has continued to defy Republican demands to begin negotiations over the looming threat of a US default. In a day of angry but apparently fruitless exchanges in Washington Mr Oba... Read more
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN: Three Americans won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Monday for discovering the machinery that regulates how cells transport major molecules in a cargo system... Read more
Israel on Sunday indicted a Belgian-Iranian man on charges of spying for Iran, saying he had been sent to the Jewish state to set up a business as a front for intelligence gathering. Ali Man... Read more
Four of the gunmen involved in the Kenya mall attack have been named, as police say the number who took part is fewer than first thought. A Kenyan military spokesman gave their names as Abu... Read more
Chinese President Xi Jinping has wrapped up his trip to Indonesia and arrived in Malaysia for a state visit. Indonesia was the first leg of Xi’s Southeast Asia tour. Earlier in the day, Pres... Read more
Rome (CNN) — “Today is a day of tears,” Pope Francis said Friday in reference to a shipwreck off the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa a day earlier, in which at least 110 p... Read more
Washington:There was horror on the Hill when a crazed Connecticut woman who tried to ram her way into the White House was shot and killed Thursday after leading police on a high-speed chase... Read more
The world-famous British comedian Rowan Atkinson, who is the creator of an amazing figure of Mr. Bean, have converted to Islam. On Tuesday, October, 1 the leader of the ruling party in Tunis... Read more
Adam Goldberg, The Huffington Post The government is hours away from its first shutdown since 1996. Here’s why it would be awful: 1. HUGE NUMBER OF FURLOUGHS: As many as 800,000 of the... Read more
