7.9 Magnitude Quake Jolts Philippines, Triggers Tsunami Alert
A powerful 7.9 magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of the Philippines, some 93 km east of the city of Sulangan, according to the US Geological Survey.
A powerful 7.9 magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of the Philippines, some 93 km east of the city of Sulangan, according to the US Geological Survey.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange believes that he may have to stay inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London for a year.
Spain's King Juan Carlos I has shown his temper by hitting his driver, an incident that was caught on camera.
Mitt Romney has accepted the Republican presidential nomination at the party's convention in Florida.
A new impeachment of Romanian President Traian Basescu would be a possible and legitimate move, according to Romanian Conservative Party representative Dan Voiculescu.
More than a half of Russians believe sending three members of the punk group Pussy Riot to prison was a fair punishment, according to a survey by the Kremlin-connected pollster Public Opinion Foundation.
The expulsion of Greece from the euro zone will put at risk the whole single currency bloc, France's finance minister has warned.
The Syrian delegation at the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Tehran on Thursday walked out in protest in reaction to a speech by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said.
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has stirred a controversy at the summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Tehran by declaring that Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad, who is fighting an "Arab Spring" insurgency, must go.
Iran has no interest in nuclear weapons but will keep pursuing peaceful nuclear energy, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told heads of state from developing countries in Tehran.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called for a halt in arms supplies to conflict parties in Syria, his spokesman Martin Nesirky said.
Hurricane Isaac continued to pound Louisiana with heavy rains and damaging winds Wednesday as forecasters said the biggest threat is storm surge flooding from central Louisiana to the Panhandle of Florida.
Syrian President Bashar Assad said in a broadcast Wednesday that his regime needs more time to win the civil war, acknowledging that his forces are struggling to contain the rebel challenge.
Spanish airline Vueling has denied that its flight from Spain, which landed at the Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam causing a terror alert, has been hijacked.
Relics of 13 saints, including those of 13th century Russian national hero, Knyaz Alexander Nevsky, have been stolen from a church in St.
Police have surrounded a passenger aircraft at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport amid fears a hijacker is on board.
Ukraine's high court has rejected the appeal by jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko against her conviction for abuse of office.
Mitt Romney's wife, Ann, has painted a loving portrait of her husband at the Republican convention, on the day he became the party's White House nominee.
An Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities is unlikely to bring about a Fukushima- scale nuclear disaster unless a Russian-built reactor is destroyed, according to experts.
US Republican Party officially nominated Mitt Romney as its candidate for November's presidential elections at their convention in Florida.
A regional court in Smolensk sentenced Russian opposition activist Taisiya Osipova to eight years in prison on drug possession charges on Tuesday.
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