Fernando Alonso won the race, aided by crash from team-mate Nelson Piquet (CNN)-- Renault face an extraordinary meeting of the FIA World Motor Sport Council in Paris later this month to answer charges ...

The U.S. Central Command said Tuesday coalition jets struck an anti-aircraft artillery site in southern Iraq. A statement said the strike was "in response to recent Iraqi hostile acts against ...

While President-elect Barack Obama will certainly be making history when he takes the oath of office on January 20, he'll also be repeating it -- by placing his hand on the same Bible that Abraham ...

More than 40,000 displaced civilians have taken shelter in dozens of makeshift settlements west of Mogadishu, described by the United Nations as "precarious conditions." Sunday's mortar attack is the ...

None of the 1,000-plus Iraqi detainees freed in recent weeks have broken a pledge not to return to the insurgency, according to the Marine general who oversees the U.S. detention centers in Iraq.

A Myanmar rebel leader killed in February said that his group is fighting for the preservation of the ethnic Karen minority, and for greater freedom throughout the southeast Asian nation. Pa Doh Mahn ...

He had said either he or former Iranian Prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi would run as the reformist candidate in June. Iranian fundamentalists who support /topics/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad" ...

Plans were kept secret for months but residents of Union County have now voted in favor of rezoning land for a $10-billion refinery capable of converting 400,000 barrels of Canadi ...

Poll: 64 percent think federal law enforcement or military should've been able to prevent shootings; All major demographics believe the attack was preventable, polling director sa ...

Michelle Obama, wife of Sen. Barack Obama, is honing her message for the fall, aides say. "Michelle wrote her own stump (speech). And you know, she's refining it now I think as we're going into the ...

The 24 crew members of the Navy surveillance plane detained in China will return to their home base Saturday to a hero's welcome. " ...

Dozens of major celebrities will perform on several nationally televised shows, as well as 10 inaugural balls the evening after Obama is sworn in as the 44th U.S. president. The celebration will open ...