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US spy chief: plot against Wall Street foiled
The U.S. foiled a plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange because of the sweeping surveillance programs at the heart of a debate over national ...
Cuban dissident: Repression forced family to flee
One of several Cuban dissidents recently allowed to visit Europe and the U.S. after Cuba changed its travel laws said Tuesday she decided to seek ...
The ins and outs of G-8 summit promises
Group of Eight summit participants are powerful people: the leaders of the U.S., Russia, Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Canada and Japan, plus top ...
French man found in plane's cockpit to leave US
A French man who gained access to the cockpit of a plane at Philadelphia International Airport by impersonating an airline employee has been sentenced ...
US man charged with tossing wife off cruise ship
A grand jury has indicted a U.S. man on charges he strangled his ex-wife and tossed her off a cruise ship in Italy. The Orange County Register says ...
CIA chief on visit to ally Romania
The director of the CIA is in Romania to meet top officials in this former Communist nation which is now a staunch ally of the U.S. John Brennan met ...
Remote US village abuzz over shipwreck search
French and U.S. experts searched Monday for a 17th century ship which they believe sank in Lake Michigan in 1679. Three French underwater ...
Miss Universe contest heads to Moscow
This year's Miss Universe pageant will be held in Russia's capital, Moscow. Donald Trump made the announcement Sunday after the Miss USA pageant in ...
Merkel: US intelligence helped foil terror plot
Germany's chancellor says U.S. intelligence was key to foiling a large-scale terror plot, acknowledging her country is "dependent" on cooperating with ...
38 countries beat UN targets to reduce hunger
Thirty-eight countries have beaten a U.N.-imposed deadline of 2015 to cut in half the proportion of hungry people. The U.N. Food and Agriculture ...
Russian tycoon wants to move mind to machine
Can the City That Never Sleeps become the City That Never Dies? A Russian multimillionaire thinks so. Dmitry Itskov gathered some of humanity's best ...
Nazi unit leader's US life prompts shock, denial
The revelation that a former commander of a Nazi SS-led military unit has lived quietly in the U.S. for the past six decades came as a shock to people ...
Obama taps finance director as envoy to Denmark
Handing plum European posts to key campaign boosters, President Barack Obama on Friday nominated his former finance director to be U.S. ambassador to ...
World stocks mixed as Asia rebounds
Global stocks were mixed Friday as Asia rebounded from a sharp selloff, with U.S. markets losing early gains after unimpressive economic data and a ...
German ministers quiz web firms on US surveillance
German ministers questioned major Internet companies on Friday about U.S. tracking of web activity, days before a visit to Berlin by President Barack ...
Russia disputes US claim on Syria chemical weapons
President Vladimir Putin's foreign affairs adviser says Moscow is not convinced with Washington's claim that Syrian regime had used chemical weapons ...
US announces recovery of missing Nazi diary
U.S. authorities have recovered about 400 handwritten pages from the wartime diary of a key Nazi adviser to Adolf Hitler after a 17-year search for ...
Mali manual suggests al-Qaida has feared weapon
The photocopies of the manual lay in heaps on the floor, in stacks that scaled one wall, like Xeroxed, stapled handouts for a class. Except that the ...
A look at Turkey and its widespread protests
Turkey's Islamic-led government is facing its biggest protests in years as demonstrators and police clashed Tuesday for the 12th straight day.
Turkey protests test Obama ties with Erdogan
Government crackdowns against protesters in Turkey could test the close ties between President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip ...
Europe outrage over NSA tempered by necessity
Indignation was sharp and predictable across Europe — a continent where privacy is revered. Yet anger over revelations of U.S. electronic surveillance ...
EU lawmakers attack US over snooping programs
European Union lawmakers took aim at the United States Tuesday for its recently revealed data snooping program, attacking Washington for treating its ...
Price of oil edges downward from $96 per barrel
Oil prices edged down Tuesday after a credit-rating upgrade of U.S. government debt led investors to speculate that the U.S. central bank might ...
No mistaking how NSA story reporter feels
The man who claimed to leak state secrets on U.S. government eavesdropping sought to break the story through a columnist for a U.K.-based publication ...
Merkel, Obama to discuss NSA surveillance program
Germany's chancellor will raise the issue of the U.S. National Security Agency's eavesdropping on European communications when she meets President ...