Dr. Conrad Murray, personal physician to Michael Jackson, has pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter in connection with the pop star’s death last summer.
A little more than a year after his election, President Obama said his administration has laid the groundwork for success on global and domestic matters.
Bahrain’s finance minister said adherence to strict Islamic rules helped his country escape the worst of the global recession.
The genocide trial of Radovan Karadzic resumed Monday after a four-month postponement, with the former Bosnian Serb leader presenting his opening statements.
Pakistan’s prime minister Thursday rejected claims Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is hiding within his country as global pressure mounted on Islamabad to tackle terrorists linked to escalating conflict in neighboring Afghanistan.
Millions worldwide watched as law enforcement and other agencies raced to catch a balloon believed to be carrying a six-year old boy above the skies of Colorado. Now Richard and Mayumi Heene have told CNN about the emotional roller coaster that ended with their son Falcon, six, found safe and well in their attic.
Nearly 90 professors at Iran’s oldest and largest university signed a letter to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, criticizing the government’s violent handling of student protesters.
The United States and other envoys at the United Nations slammed Iran on Thursday for transporting arms and ammunition to Syria, saying the clock is ticking for the Islamic republic — which could face tougher sanctions next year over its nuclear program.
Alone in the darkness beneath layers of rubble, Dan Woolley felt blood streaming from his head and leg.
A British yachtsman said he and his wife are being held “hostage” by pirates on a container ship in the Indian Ocean. His captors have not asked for a ransom, Paul Chandler told Britain’s ITV network.
Barack Obama is the first U.S. president to have lived in Asia as a child, and that unique perspective will help shape his nine-day trip to the region starting Thursday, U.S. officials say.
Iranian security forces have seized an oil well in southern Iraq, two senior Iraqi government officials said today. Iran is denying the incident.
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Prominent dissident Liu Xiaobo, who had been arrested for his role in the Tiananmen Square protest, will be sentenced this week in a separate case, his attorney says.
A suicide bomber self-detonated Thursday morning outside a court compound in the heavily guarded administrative heart of the Pakistani city of Peshawar, the seventh deadly explosion there in less than two weeks.
4:09 a.m. — Doctors, medicine and more rescuers were scheduled to land in Haiti on Thursday as nation after nation pledged to help the earthquake-battered country.
